Novel Essays

Literature has been the mirror that reflects the image of the society and observes the behavior of people in their daily life. Literature represented in drama, poetry, plays, novels or short stories. My topic is about one element of these mentioned above. It is about a literary aspect seen in the story of Candide novella by the famous French author Voltaire. This period known as the expansion of European power. This novella classified as one of travel literature. Novella taken from

A classic novel is a novel which is widely recognised and valued. These novels are appreciated because they present outstanding or enduring qualities. Classic literature usually becomes popular once it is published and remains this way throughout time. These novels are usually held to a high standard and are likely to have themes that remain relevant to this day, upholding their popularity. One of the most well known examples of a classic novel is ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ published in 1960 and written

The tone of a novel expresses the novelist's outlook or feelings about the subject matter, people, place, reader and events in a work as shown by the elements of the novelist’s style. The tone may be characterized as serious or satirical, sad or happy, private or public, annoyed or friendly, bitter or sentimental and feelings that human beings experience (Victor S.L). Therefore, every novel uses these elements of fiction to generate fictional worlds that make his readers laugh and cry. A fictional

Fight Club: As a Novel and As a Film Sergen Ünveren, TR 111.01 Clandestine literature –also called underground literature– is a recent field of literature which is often remembered with its usage of harsh, unusual and critical language towards capitalist system. Fight Club, one of the best known representatives of the clandestine literature, is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk which tells the story of a middle-aged insomniac man. This middle-aged man, who works as a recall specialist for the automobile

It was the novel that many of the people who formed the center of the 1960's in the United States read. It was a striking rebellion against what society was still pretending was the right way to live, but that immense numbers of people could see clearly was not right for them and probably never had been. The Vietnam War and the Cold War that followed made the novel’s influence bigger since the Unites States seemed to refuse to learn the lesson. Life was unpredictable and people lived faithful to

into an all girls grammar school and later she went to Oxford University where she studied and read English. When she moved to London she wrote her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which won the 1985 Whitbread prize. Most of Jeanette’s novels are

Greene's thrillers represent a serious attempt to establish the spy novel as an appropriate vehicle for exploring the tensions, ambiguities, darkness and sense of alienation which characterize the experience of modernity in the twentieth century. The most significant feature of formulaic narratives-spy novels, westerns, gothic romances, science fiction fantasies, detective thrillers-as defined by Warshow is self-referentiality: “One goes to any individual example of the type with very definite expectations

In Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction, just published this last fall, Ymitri Mathison presents a collection of ten essays by writers discussing Asian American young adult(YA) novels focused on different Asian American subgroupings and how those novels address issues particular to each subgroup. In her introductory essay, Mathison describes the specific context in which Asian American children and YA literature has developed and how that literature goes beyond the “model minority” stereotype

We see many friendships throughout the novel, with the central character within them being Stephen. Stephen and Keith form a bond alongside the one between Barbara Berrill and Stephen. Frayn structures the novel in short chapters and large chapters to show that his childhood, when compared to the present day, was far more important. The chapters between Stephen and Keith show that despite it being the only hostile relationship, it was the most important one to the protagonist. Frayn presents hostility

talks about misjudgement and how important it is to not misjudge people. Everyday people will assume things about another person and misjudge them. Many authors have also written about or had the element of misjudgement in their literature. In the novels The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton and Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, readers are able to learn from how characters are misjudged. In The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Darry is misjudged based on the way he treats Ponyboy, through his misjudgement readers

sense something strange with the protagonist right from the very first line. Why is it so? Is it because he isn’t sure when his mother died? Is it his indifference towards his mother passing away or the nonchalant way in which he admits it? Why the novel is titled The Stranger at the first cause? Who regards the protagonist as the stranger? I. Is it the author himself, who sees his protagonist as a stranger because of his unique personality? II. Or it is the narrator (protagonist) who feels as a stranger

Graphic Novels: Childish or Educational? Since the evolution of modern literature there has been an ongoing controversy about whether or not graphic novels should be taught in English classrooms. Some people may argue that they should be taught while some believe otherwise. In Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus, he explores the hidden truths and harsh realities of the Holocaust through a multitude of interviews with his father, a survivor. In this survivor’s tale, Spiegelman learns about what

shaping literature. Context is what that drives a writer to develop influential literary works. Persepolis, a graphic autobiography depicting the life of Marjane Satrapi from her childhood to her adult years and Great Gatsby, a 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel about young and mysterious millionaire Great Gatsby and his obsession for Daisy Buchanan are examples of literary works that are shaped based on the cultural, social, political and historical context of their respective time periods. The effect that

Mary Shelley produced such an impactful work as a teenager that her novel, which started as an entry into a ghost story contest, turned into a successful novel that is still read 100 years later. She tells the story of how a creator abandons its creation leading to murder, hatred, and the quest for revenge. People often reject those who are different and do not fit into society. The novel, Frankenstein, greatly conveys the theme of rejection while communicating through the literary element of characterization

model of a traditional British family – white, middle class, protestant- as the pillar of society is put into question in Smith’s novel through the inclusion of other household representations that point towards an inherent multicultural aspect of British society. White Teeth depicts the process of the city of London becoming a multicultural

a. What purpose is served in the novel by the presence of Mrs. Hedges? Of Mr. Jones? Of Min? Mrs. Hedges is a product of the street, learned to conform to the street, and made it work for her success. She attempts to help Lutie, by showing her how not to be a part of “brawling, teeming” (251) life of the street. Mrs. Hedges’ character understands the power that “the street” have over people, and their success, or failure in Harlem. She embraced the reality of “the street.” She actually named ‘the

In a manner of speaking, the novel circulates around a kind of rebel-victim antihero whose sole purpose in life is to save his skin/neck in various successive attempts to evade the brutal atrocities and idiocies of a self-centered regime whose military commanders are in a constant pursuance to enslave him and victimize his fellow mates in the squadron for their own ego-centric aspirations. A closer look into this novel makes clear that Heller does justice to his literary gifts through his use of

A good novel is a novel that makes you think while a great novel is a novel that makes you question whether or not what the author is conveying to the readers is, in fact, true or not. Indeed, The Things They Carried is a great novel. This novel consists of many occasions in which the author made the readers stop and really think about what they just read. A central question to The Things They Carried is whether or not the events described-- with vivid details-- is true or not. When the readers

For my graphic novel, I choose to do a non-fiction piece on a brief history of film. Choosing this allowed me to get outside of my comfort zone, as well as possibly learn something new in the process. In the graphic novel, I first talk about the very origins of film: what the first motion picture machine was and what the very first “film” looked like and why it was made. Next I look at the films of the early 20th century. They started off very short, as before 1912, it was not common to use multiple

Chapter2 The Novel or the Film? Besides the decline of the American dream and the Coexistence of good and evil, do these films, The Great Gatsby and To Kill A Mocking Bird, have something else in common? They were novels first. While the films were wonderful, the question arises which case do I prefer? The Novel or the Film? Transforming a novel into a screenplay is not simply an issue of pulling dialog from the pages of a book. In books, we frequently come to know characters best not through what