1. Introduction “[I am] like hundreds of thousands of others: people with an Arab or a Muslim background doing daily double-takes when faced with their reflection in a western mirror.” (Soueif 2004) Born in Egypt, as the child of two Arab university professors, Ahdaf Soueif is an author who fuses elements from an English education […]
Schindler’s List The Holocaust for years has never been fully discussed or described to the outside world. There have been books and movies that have attempted to convey the atrocities aw with the feelings, but they have only been attempts to emotionally connect the audiences. Emotionally connecting whilst describing history to the audience members can […]
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Get startedAccording to David Lodge realistic literature is based on “ their obsession with form to neglect the content and the third person omniscient mode is more often used to assert or imply the existence of society or history, than of heaven and hell. Therefore, modernist fiction eschews the straight chronological ordering of realistic material and […]
The Changeling Critical Essay Rachel Meikle Choose a novel which reaches a climax which you find dramatic or moving or disturbing. Explain how the writer achieves this effect and discuss how it contributes to your appreciation of the text as a whole. In Robin Jenkins “The Changeling” the main character Tom Curdie is a young […]
“The white man is very clever…He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. ” Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart is a prime example of African literature that demonstrates the clash between cultures and peoples that occurred across the African continent as a consequence of European […]
The two novels, All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque and The Storm of Steel by Junger, are two different perspectives of a common theme, the theme of war. While Junger’s recollection of the war seems to glorify battle, Remarque strongly emphasizes the horrors of war. Throughout his novel, Junger seems to be a […]
The novel Adventure of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain in the year 1884. The author of the book Mark Twain was born in the Samuel Langerhorne Clemens in Florida in the year 1835. When his family moved to the Hannibal town near the Mississippi River his writing career began there and then. He is […]
In the American literature, Hawthorne has used symbolism in his novel, as to pass the message and keep the theme he applied symbolism in the novel setting, Scarlet A characterization and colors light. Symbolism is mainly depicted in different chapters, his ability to introduce and changing the symbols through the context is to improve the […]
Nathianel Hawthorne Nathianel Hawthorne was an American writer of novels and short stories who lived between 1804 and 1864 (Hawthorne 2). Most of his writing was centered on New England featuring majorly on moral metaphors with an anti-puritan inspiration. His works were fictions with more emphasis on dark romantic (Boonyaprasop 15). In his writings, he […]
This book is categorized into two where we have love story and political awakening matters. In the early 20th century, the British power of India made some changes in the unbalanced and political self-motivated. In the effort of restoration of the region, the British called for Bengal which was divided based on the religious matters […]
The narrative surrounds on Gogol because is the central character of the short stories. The narrative took the focus on Gogol for many reasons; one being when Ashima gave birth to him did not get the name from them ancestors on how he will be called. Gogol was a boy and was his father was […]
The Brave new world movie is an example of the dystopian fiction which is a story in which the society’s efforts to establish a perfect world goes in vain. The society in question in this novel is set in London in a futuristic concept where the state government has tried to make attempts to create […]
The novel “”IT”” by Stephen King tends to be a very horrific book. The story revolves around a town known as Derry city where children are the primary target of the so-called the Crown that reappears after every 27 years. The book commences with heavy rain all over the Derry town forcing the residents to […]
“Siddhartha” is a fiction story written in 1992 by the novelist Hermann Hesse. As such, the novel describes a tale of a man pursuing a spiritual journey in discovering himself. This comes at the time of Gautama Buddha where the author examines the Buddhist philosophy and Indian culture which are well expressed in his final […]
The novel Assault as written by the Dutch author Harry Mulisch is one of the literally work that effectively portrays a combination of emotions in the manner it is written. The novel narrates a story of a young man named Anton that was living during the Second World War. The effects of the war that […]
The book by Paule Marshall titled The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: Untenable Sisterhood is an informative book but one that employs a lot of humor. In the first passage, we learn that Bourne Island is the process of gaining full independence from its colonial rulers. Marshall writes that the locals could be on the […]
The Fifth Child novel portrays similarities to A High Wind Jamaica Novel since they discuss related topics. Both books display the role of parental care in family matters. Doris Lessing is the author of The Fifth Child while on the other hand, Richard Hughes is the author. In both cases, it is depicted that out […]
The parable of the sower has a wide range of themes developed. Among the themes that the author has tried to feature in the work is the theme of weakness and strength. The novel integrates the two themes in a manner that it is possible to tell similarly to a real world event. The themes […]
Ready Player One is a book that was written by Ernest Cline. The play in this novel is based in a 2044 dystopian following a character Wade Watts on his exploration for an Easter egg. Nevertheless, essential real game will enable him take over a wealth in a world tanked-up by an energy crisis. In […]
There comes a time when desperate situations call for desperate measures. A good example is when an older woman tries to seduce a younger boy to get some sexual or physical pleasures from them since from the look of things; she is unlikeable by men within her age bracket this is basically because they are […]
Introduction The story of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in Soviet Literature is unusual because of the basis of raw materials used. It shows cult of personality that carried painful features in the development that debunks in the party. The feature seems to be from the past even though we may see them far from us. The past […]
The book of D’Urbervilles, the problems of Tess tend to start when his father comes to know that their family came from ancient family. She experiences pressure which makes her to approach Alec D’Urberville who seduces her. Later they bear a kid together but the kid dies at her infancy stage. Thereafter, Tess falls in […]
According to Ba, Mariama (7), the main character for Mariama Ba’s So Long Letter is Ramatoulaye. From the text, we learn that Ramatoulaye has written a letter to Assiatou who is her best friend expressing herself and how she plans to carry out her new life after acing all she went through. All the situations […]
Ambivalence is the state in which two parties have contradictory ideas, feelings or attitude regarding each other or something. In the novel, A Passage to India by Forster ambivalence illustrates the ambiguous way in which colonizer and the colonized regarded one another. We start the various instances where the state of ambivalence is first experienced […]
Introduction The following is a literature review of the book The Great Gatsby. The paper will analyze the symbolic technique Fitzgerald used in coming up with the novel. The essay will demonstrate a brief thesis of what the colors symbolized both to the reader and the characters in the book. In this paper we will […]
Mary Shelley was a novelist who wrote novels that are now looked at as literary concepts. Mary used life experiences to create novels that would be explained in many ways in time. Many saw these novel as enjoyable horrors while others viewed them as disgusting and freak show, only few actually understood the real meanings […]
The movement of literary Modernism was unlike many others it’s central focus was inner self and consciousness. This movement began in 1910 and ended around 1965. Modernist fundamental priority was to create literature that was fiction and put an end to non fiction. The new world during this time was the start of a new […]
The Little Prince was a novella written in April of 1943 by the author Antoine de De Saint-Expuéry, a French aristocrat. He was known for his writing, poetry, journalism, and aviation. The book follows the narrator as he is stranded in the desert. This probably ties back to De Saint-Expuéry’s past of being a pilot, […]
The Great Gatsby is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel follows a group of characters in fictional towns called West Egg and East Egg. the Great Gatsby is a story of disappointed expectations between lovers. Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of ruined moral, social, and economic values. The Great Gatsby delves […]
‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ is a short but thrilling story with an ironic ending written by Roald Dahl. An analysis of the story will reveal what makes the story so effective. The author of Lamb to the Slaughter, although the situation is unimaginable, he somehow manages to make the theme relate to readers. Roald Dahl, […]
