Later in the text, McCarthy describes the ghosts of Comanche warriors who once used that same road which John Grady is riding to cross the land, the road is described as " pledged in blood and redeemed in blood only". In this quote, John Grady expresses his love and desire to protect the horse no →
In the novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe describes it as a history of facts that seeks to portray the social institutions and structures of the medieval British society. DeMaria says that it is clear that throughout the novel she uses such stylistic devices as irony and contrast to highlight the theme of social relationships in the →
Lemmon plays a 78 year old retired aeronautics worker and now slipping into contented senility with the help of his tiresome take-over wife, and Danson is his immensely successful stock-trading son/ wall street wheeler-dealer and himself the father of a son who is as strange to him as he to Jake, John return home, to →
At the beginning Pip uses repetition of his name suggesting that he is going to be the main character in the novel. This is effective as it makes the reader aware of the danger Pip is in.
Yet, the scientific basis for morphometry in fishes, or particularly the mathematical access as poise relates after length, was once put in with the aid of Fulton, in 1904, anybody because the first era delivered fisheries erudition in ' allometry'. Consequently, taxonomists bear to taking in the morphological characters of whole length bunches covering substantial →
Compare The Hobbit to The Natural, in terms of a main character's journey from the start of the novel to the end. The story is basically the journey of the main character who is Bilbo Baggins from his rural surroundings as he attempts to win his share of the treasure that is guarded by the →
From his introduction in the beginning of the novel, the character Kurtz presented himself as a robust personality. In the words of the author, Kurtz is a man of " sombre pride," and his undying will " consumed his flesh,".
The movie is an excellent adaptation to the novel as it still maintains the same conflict and plot line and grasps the action and suspense which the novel invokes in the reader. This contrast in atmosphere is seen through the difference in the development and presentation of Jack Vincennes, the contrast in character of Ed →
In the short article " The Future Of 'Short Attention Span Theater" it talks about how technology is interfering with peoples lives and how they are being distracted from what is important like their relationship with the ones they love." Technology has totally changed what it means to watch television or a movie". They are →
The movie is set in McMurphy's perspective, while in the novel, the narrator is Chief. The perspective shift that occurs in the movie makes it difficult for the audience to determine whether or not Chief is deaf and dumb or if he's just acting.
The way in which Conrad explains the voyage on the Belgian Congo is very explicit and represents his own vision of the situation lived on that time. That is why I think that the descriptions used on the book are authentic and explain correctly the treatment and the behavior of people.
At the sight of the flames and the irresistible course of the fire, the boys broke into shrill, excited cheering... The vicious beast of whom they speak is precisely the boys or the terrible evil within the boys.
The main point of the picaresque novel is to present the main character and reveal his/her adventures. The point of this type of novel is to address the life story of the mischievous main character.
The obvious distinction between the two is that Heart of Darkness tells a tale from the European point of view while Things Fall Apart tells one from the Native African Tribe point of view. In Heart of Darkness, the conflict has to do with the destructive consequences of the self-discovery and internal turmoil that goes →
However the monster created by Victor Frankenstein is by far the most loathsome and reviled in history and the physical sense of the monster is rooted in Mary Shelley's almost ghoulish imagination especially due to the fact that she was obsessed with the gothic and the mysterious. There are also parallels between Victor Frankenstein and →
In order to do so, Gregor, still not accustomed to his new physique, must use a chair in order to reach the door leading out of his bedroom." Gregor slowly pushed himself across the door with the chair, there let go of it and dropped against the door...and there rested a moment from his exertions". →
But again, Okonkwo's failure to change his sense of justice to the situation led to his failure. He believed that because he had his high standing in the village, it was just for him to kill Ikemefuna and would be rewarded for sacrificing his own sense of justice because the clan came before the individual.
In the novel Projects Gods and Brainchips, there is a progression by the main character, who grows from one level to another in the understanding of the truths that surround family, life, and God. The novel revolves around the examination of a people's desire to find out the meanings of things and goes further on →
However to look on another perspective one could say, the Abame people had a reason to kill the white man who visited them prior to the large group of white men's visit because, at that moment the Abame natives felt the action to kill was the safest to do to protect themselves and were afraid →
She is large, intimidating, and self-centred, and it is interesting to note that both she and her estate invoke a sense of discomfort in those who have the misfortune to be nearby. Pride and Prejudice is a novel in which Jane Austen has used several techniques concerning the sense of place to create a fine →
Edna's rationality communicates her larger meaning as a whole because she realizes how much she wants to be herself but cannot do that in the society she lives in and she is learning how to handle and understand the feelings that she is going through. She cannot do anything about the way her husband treats →
They are often skeptical about the war and the entire colonial-imperial enterprise in Asia, finding the death of their comrades in the jungles and swamps to be futile and pointless. They will carry all the memories and images with them for the rest of their lives, just as O'Brien also carried the burden of recalling →
Refer to your prescribed texts and one other related text of your own choosing' Planning: - Memoirs of a Geisha: Chiyo leaves behind the life of a poor fisherman's daughter, along with her mother and sister, for the life of a Geisha - Things Fall Apart: Nwoye, Okonkwos weak son Nwoyea converts and submits to →
He learned from Unoka's mistakes, and as an adult tried to become the opposite of him." Okonkwo was ruled by one passion- to hate everything his father had loved. The same thought also came to Okonkwo's mind." Later in Nwoye's life, he defied his father's wishes and joined the Christian church.
Most novels need a hero and many times the readers may feel sympathy for the narrator in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, but the fact remains that the narrator has many of the traits of an anti-hero and this paper will be concluding that he is indeed the anti-hero of the novel. In Part II →
The novel is narrated through the memory accounts of Leila who is the oldest of three, and Leon's step daughter. Ona fell in love with Osvaldo, who was the son of Leon's business partner that went south.
Anne Michaels' " Fugitive Pieces" is a powerful novel about damaged lives and the indestructibility of the human spirit which was empowered through its poignant depiction of the concepts of loss, pain, memory, language, and love Loss, as one of the main themes in the novel played a very big role. Best example of this →
The social change in this novel has affected the lives of a minority in the novel. From the author point of view, the destruction of the mountain tops by manufacturing companies destroys the environment and also destroys the habitat of members of the community.
In her novel, Adichie emphasizes on the impact of the Nigerian Civil War on the civilian life, not only the deaths in battle but also the starvation that followed. In her novel, Adichie deals with a delicate subject, the events that lead to and the course of the Nigeria-Biafra War in the 1960s.
PTSD in relation to war is clearly seen in the different collections of stories compiled and written by Tim O'Brien in his book. One particular story found in the book that shows PTSD in the case of a war veteran is " Speaking of Courage".
While Lennie is savoring the dream, George, with great difficulty, shoots him on the back of the head, and thus saving Lennie from the torture that is promised to come. In summary, the characters' genuine friendship, like the unbroken bond between George and Lennie is one of the most important themes to the story.
One day down at marshes by the churchyard Pip come into contact with a convict who is supplied food by Pip, later on the convict gets caught and this is the last we hear of him for a while. The convict then tells Pip that he is Pip's benefactor, much to Pip's disenchantment.
Nationalism, Religion and Gender are prevalent in the texts " The Good Lord Bird" and " The Farming of Bones". This is one that unobtrusively weaves the knowledge of the prior to the war outskirts and of subjugation with the portrayal of Brown's frequently flighty brutality.
The moral of this story is that the battle between the church and science has resulted to chaos and confusion in the society Covert one is a novel by Robert Ludlum and is concerned with the effects of scientific research on the society. In the book, Blanchard Pharmaceutical creates a virus in a bid to →
The one in which seems to be the most effective is the placement of telescreens on every street, in every house and building, which are used to watch each persons every move and to deliver information to the citizens. The Party uses this tool as a way to be able to identify the supporters of →
Millat feels like a little gangster and he is the leader of the Raggistani that is the name of an ultra- Muslim activist group. That is the reason why he wants to protest against that book.
He realised that he survived just because of the antenna which was pierced in his body suit and also found he was all alone left on Mars. So finally, at the end he was rescued and came back to earth.
Many active characters in this book are impressive, such as Amy, Juan, Hideo and Adam, actually Otero is the most interesting character in this book, he is the teacher of Social Studies, and designed the " Color Game", which is an experiment intended to make students aware of class and racial prejudices. This novel is →
Lewis Carroll is an important English writer because of his position in English literate ere, and his many arks, such as his novel, " Lice's Adventures in Wonderland," have impacted o r influenced some writing styles of today. It is important to note however, that Lewis Carroll was a man of mystery.
He is a strange mixture of wisdom, stupidity and generosity, being the most human of all the characters with his strengths and weaknesses, which the readers grasp by reading between the lines of Pip's description, Joe's own actions and his interactions.' Joe' is a common name, and Dickens' clever play with nomenclature instantly makes us →
It is necessary for the reader to know that Miss Havisham's psychotic behavior began precisely at 8: 40 a.m.on what was to have been her wedding day. Miss Havisham was a victim only because she allowed herself to be.
This exposes the purpose that he wishes to convey to his readers of the honest truth, war is really not kind, and that it is ridiculous. Erich Maria Remarque and Stephen Crane's works both contain a purpose, to explain to readers the destructiveness of war plus the dehumanization of soldiers that participate in the battle →
One of the more fascinating traits of humanity is the tendency to reflect, and to create art on the basis of that reflection. Much of literature attempts to speak to the ways to live a full and meaningful life.
It happens in Russia whereby Russian people endured in the Stalinist system, Ivan and ordinary Russian was also caught in the chaos of II world war and served faithfully in the Red Army in a period of four years where he survived the bitter cold and a lot of hunger in the western front. Even →
In his story " The Things They Carried", Tim O'Brien, enlightens the reader with the many faces and emotions of men. Experience of war O'Brien gives a graphic portrait of the experience of war by mentioning the weight of the things which the soldiers carry.
He develops considerable self esteem in the proceedings of the novel and also moves forward accordingly through to his final confrontations with Mary in what some may deem as a world of his own. First of all she is a girl who is accustomed to the bush, something which Crabbe definitely is not and she →
As the physical embodiment of Sethe's past, Beloved inhibits her from conquering the ghosts of the past in which she remains. Although Beloved succeeds in the instant, she does not rid 124 of Paul D, but instead leads him to the realization that Sethe cannot move on as long as her past haunts her.
This award-winning novel occupies a very prestigious place in the realm of novel writing because of the fact that the main character of the novel is a true character and she is none other than the author of the novel Ji Li Jiang herself. Chinese Cultural Revolution" in brief was an unlawful and unethical struggle →
Boa Ninh's, The Sorrow of War is the tale of Kien, the protagonist and his journey during the war and after. The first time Kien leaves Phuong for the war and the second time, the rape of Phuong in the train causes them to separate.
At the beginning of the story the reader encounters Juan Preciado, the narrator of the story, who, being the son of Pedro Paramo, had promised his mother at her deathbed that he would go to the town of Comala to meet his father. In the course of the novel Preciado dies and the events take →
To begin, the most basic of the differences between social classes is not the beliefs and the convictions held by those within it, but rather the behaviors and the way in which they present themselves to others. To conclude, the stark contrast of those with rank vs those without is both deep and all encompassing.
On the surface it is a light-hearted account of the experiences and life of Yossarian and his air force colleagues, written mostly in a quite unusual narrative style. Yossarian recounts that when the drip is empty and the urine bottle full, the nurses simply swap them over to recycle the contents Another example, also in →
The Shadow of the Wind is a novel about a love story between two people; it is also the story of a love affair between a man and a book. It is time to hate the sin and love the sinner.
The theme of tradition versus change in Things Fall Apart is used to highlight the tragedy of both Okonkwo's isolation and his society's dissipation. Okonkwo is so disappointed in his son that he denies Nwoye as a son and degrades him to the role of a woman.
The twittering of the birds, the sound of the wind blowing through the trees, and the crash of the full tide against the rocks. Was not I the one who did this to you?" He looked at Ralph's puzzled expression, and laughed the cold laugh once more".
Santiago's pride which he criticizes and holds responsible for the destruction of the marlin can also be seen as a positive thing because, it is his pride that allowed him to realize his genuine and absolute capabilities. Towards the end of the novel we an also see Santiago clinging to the hope that he has →
Harry Lavender the antagonist of this novel is a man of strong power who is metaphorically illustrated to be the heart, the veins, and the blood of Sydney. The distinctive voice of this novel is the character Okonkwo, the society he lives in reins his thoughts and actions.
On the following day, the village celebrates the next event in the marriage of the daughter of Obierika, Okonkwo's friend. These descriptions follow the events of the preceding chapter and illustrate the strength of the villagers' beliefs in the earth goddess and her powers, even when she requires the near abduction of a child.
She feels that the area is full of displaced individuals and is able to identify with a population that is not solely African American for the first time in her life. The overwhelming message of " I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" appeared to be that racism was, and still is, a prominent issue.
The author is largely successful in developing a blend between the English language and the culture of the Ibo people. One example of this can be found in almost every chapter with the breaking of kola nuts, the fruit of kola trees found in African rainforests, as a ritualistic metaphor and common practice of the →
The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Atticus is the father of the two Scout and Jem.
The power possessed by the female characters closely relates to how paramount these women are in the development of the story and plot. Marlowr's aunt, the knitting women, and Kurtzr's mistress all hold a grip and power of the men in Heart of Darkness.
One of the reasons that Lydia Melford's character is limited at the sidelines is because the main characters overshadow the presence of Lydia Melford in the novel. Disregarding the wrong person for a good reason is a method to encourage prejudice among the readers of the novel and allowing the construction of the commentaries about →
Ka has only begun to do this in order to re-create his lost fortieth poem believing that if he plots all the other poems from his new collection on the snowflake of his life, he will be reminded the final, missing snowflake, in a way this action reflects what Orhan is doing in the present →
Let's get the most out of Literature * Reading literary selections like poems, short stories, novels, plays, or essays, not only provide pleasure.* It also develop your analytical skills as you must consider each part of the text separately before you can interpret the meaning of the entire work and eventually appreciate it. Poems may →
The novel describes his life as a slave, the horrors of slavery, and his struggle for freedom. Douglass on the other hand, was a slave who suffered under the hands of his cruel masters and was put to jail when he attempted to escape.
It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father." He had a strong drive to not become like his father, Unoka. In the end, it was Okonkwo himself that destroyed his own life because of what he strived to become.
For example, in Ron Arias' critically acclaimed novel The Road to Tamazunchale, 2002 the reader is introduced to Don Fausto, an 80-year-old retired bookseller of whom lives in the barrio of Los Angeles and is in the wake of death. However, the overlapping of illusion and reality is often conflicting for the reader to understand →
One of the main issues in 1984 is the lack of privacy everyone within the party has. Big Brother watches everyone because they do not want anyone to go against the ideas of the " party" and what they think is correct.
On the other hand, Eugene, the antagonist and father figure in Purple Hibiscus, ostracizes his father on the basis of religious disagreement. This belief makes a stable relationship with his father impossible, and leads to the estrangement of Papa Nnukwu in Eugene's life.
As a member of this tribe, I cannot stand by and watch the destruction of our people's traditions. If our sons and daughters convert to the new religion, any hopes of preserving our history will be ruined.
Through her essay, Frankenstein' a cautionary tale of bad parenting" and despite the use of limited out references, Susan Coulter manages to accurately bring to light the fact that an underlying subject in Shelley's novel is the inability of human beings to be good parents. Coulter is apparently attempting to add substance to the notion →
Many of the kids at the Think-Tank had felt this way before they came to the institute when they were in the outside world and at school. The kids feel comfortable and safe in the Think-Tank because they feel that they do not have to pretend to be something they are not, they do not →
On the other hand, the elements of change in both books defer, as in Things Fall Apart, what brings the change originates from the outside, that is, the missionaries; while Lakunle acts as the element of change from inside the community. Cultural transition in both The Lion and The Jewel and Things Fall Apart is →
Due to the consequences of violating the nature of existentialism, The Metamorphosis can be classified as existentialist because when Gregor's actions violate the principles of existentialism, the consequences are negative. The events that lead to Gregor's loss of individuality and subsequent death are existentialist in nature.
Every aspects of her creates a strong comparison to the war, all of her wonderful traits are differing her from the war either on her looks, mood, or personality, while her personality typically reveals her innocence and naive. She starts to become realistic, that she starts to worry about the dangerous of the war while →
And if the old version the most vividly shows the tragic story of Gatsby - just how the reader of novel has indeed imagined it, the last film has rather adapted to the demands of the modern audience impressive picture, favorite musicians in soundtracks, combination of light humor and sentimental drama has undoubtedly caught the →
In Ponyboy's role as the narrator and main character in the story, he talks about the expectations of Greasers being violent delinquents, which sways his internal expectations, giving him labels he thinks he has to live by. This means that after he saved the children from the burning church and the headline in the newspaper →
The avian symbolism in the novel is apparent as the readers mark her tribulations from one bird to the next as she forges an unheard-of path in her upper-class world but eventually finds that she is unable to survive in this new environment of feminist individualism. She is one of very few women of her →
What the author had done here is that with all the dark comedy packed into this novel, he had squeezed in bits of reality. The next dark scene that I have picked is where the Valencia, the overweight wife of the arguable protagonist Billy Pilgrim, died because of carbon monoxide poisoning.
When they heard an I enfant crying in the thick forest." This is an example of a conflict dealing with morals because Known is said to have this horrid feeling as they are passing by the thick forest, and they hear an in fan's cry he feels bad about the situation because that baby was →
His mother is shocked by the transformation In this paper, the author will use Saint Leo's core values of integrity and community to analyze the decisions made by Samsa family when Gregor changes into bug. The values of Saint Leo University are evident in the decisions taken by Gregor's family after his metamorphosis.
In the two texts, The Book Thief, and The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas this is a aspect that is featured in both, the relationship between children. The friendship of Liesel and Rudy in The Book Thief is presented in a more simple way compared to the friendship that was formed between Bruno and Shmuel.
By the latter part of the 1960's to 1980's, A Civil Action, elaborates the real circumstances of negligence in and outside the courtroom. The novel describes the procedure about how lawyers deal with these clients through the legal process about such a tragic event due to the negligence of the two companies in the late →
Gatsby and Tom are alike in that they are both extremely wealthy and flaunt it, both men also are in love with Daisy Buchanan and both Tom and Gatsby have secrets that they are hiding from their loved ones. Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are both in love with Tom's wife, Daisy.
The book was published twice in 1818 and in 1831 with a small but significant change in the second case, which influenced the plot, the main character to be more exact. The story is written from the first person, which appears to be an important thing in terms of understanding the inner world of the →
Thus, under the conditions of biopolitics, the arenas of the political are not limited to the places of institutionalized politics in parliaments, governments or in the political public. The students of Hailsham did not only have to follow the rules of politics but rules that are set in every sphere of their life.
But ultimately he is a disappointing, unappealing figure because these traits reveal his failings both as a father and husband: his constant mockery of his spouse begins to seem cruel and creates an unhealthy marital environment for his children to grow up in, while his preference to insult his younger daughters' behavior instead of correcting →
The way Kafka uses imagery in this sentence by including the difficulty of throwing over the blanket creates a picture for the reader, showing the struggle Gregor faces with his new body. Clearly, Gregor is unable to communicate with the attorney and explain to him his situation; the attorney starts to realize the abnormality.
The strength of the film lies in the authentic portrayal of the characters, how they face the ups and downs of the family relationship and the gradual growth and the relevant changes related to its characters. The emphasis in the book is for the story of the little girl Regina, but in the film it →
In addition to this, the monster's appearance is very different in the movie, compared to how he is described in the book. There is another difference in the plot of the movie and the film.
The novel is written as it is being narrated, and the narrator is a child, you can tell this by the fact that he cannot say his own name; he calls himself Pip instead of Phillip Pirrip. The churchyard is described as bleak and overgrown, and there is a dark, flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, →
The title of Metamorphosis is the titular word for the changes which occur in not only the most obvious of them all, Gregor, but of all the underlying layers of the rest of the family". There is the change of Gregor during the time he started the job as the travelling salesman and became enslaved →
Walter Allen believes that, " The Heart of Darkness of the title is at once the heart of Africa, the heart of evil- everything that is nihilistic corrupt and malign and perhaps the heart of man" According to Conrad himself, the story of " heart of darkness" is about the " criminality of inefficiency and →
The kite itself is used by the writer in chapter 7 as a visual depiction of the spiritual journey that Amir is going to take in order to find redemption within himself. Also, the kite competition reinforces an issue that is prevalent throughout the novel- which is the treatment of Hazaras in Afghanistan during the →
The love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. For the entire first half of the book, Elizabeth loathes Darcy and his social class.