Novel

In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck explores the values and attitudes of America in the 1930’s through a realistic reflection of society. Steinbeck shows the value of…

A thought that is ‘seeded’ into an author’s mind is outputted in his or hers work. That ‘seeding’ of thought could be initiated by the ‘system’ in which the author…

“Life of Pi” is a novel about a sixteen year old boy named Piscine Patel who survives for 227 days on a lifeboat at sea after he loses his family…

In the novel, Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas who lived from 1943 to 1990, the author conveys many subjects and captures the reader to the full extent. Reinaldo Arenas,…

All from different backgrounds Accepted differences in each other’s personalities’ e. g. : Tahr learned to communicate in a unique way with the yeh-teh. Became Paris’ friend even though she…

During the Victorian Era, society prevented women from making their own living, which caused an inescapable dependence upon men’s income; “Barred by law and custom from entering trades and professions…

The novel “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe’s is one of the most excellent existing examples of what is typically known as the “factual story,” a type that Wolfe assisted…

Gustave von Aschenbach is the protagonist of the novella and the character on which the whole story is mostly concentrated. The author keeps strict limitations on the other characters introduced…

Although eighty years passed between the publication of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the debut of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now both portray the notion that horror and insanity…

George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda is an extremely complex and tortuous novel, structured by many plots and subplots. Because of its complexity and the unwonted interlocking of events and situations, the…

I. SynopsisA movie based on William Wharton’s novel about fathers and sons, an above-average film adaptation from TV’s Gary David Goldberg, who wrote and directed the film, it focuses first…

Dan Brown’s bestselling novel “The Da Vinci Code” rocked not just the literature community, but the entire world that up to this day, his bestselling book has been the topic…

In the novel, The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins using the conventions of dystopian literature, creates a world in which inhuman societal control and the image of a perfect society…

The prominent novel Animal Farm was written by George Orwell. This book was published during World War II and was intended to portray the communism that had been taking place…

Looking for Alibrandi {1992} is a novel written by Melina Marchetta, which presents to us the internal conflict that immigrant children face in a multicultural society. Throughout the novel Josephine…

Insecurity, or self-doubt, is a powerful force that prevents a person from allowing him or herself to find true happiness. In Daphne du Maurier’s novel, Rebecca, the protagonist is filled…

In everyday life food plays an important role. In one specific book, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, food plays a very important role. This novel is a “Long Fiction” novel….

The driver who takes Babi, Laila, and Tariq to the giant stone Buddhas above the Bamiyan Valley describes the crumbling fortress of Shahr-e-Zohak as “the story of our country, one…

The first part of the novel begins with the spend-the-days, in which the grandchildren congregate at Ammachi and Appachi’s home. Arjie and his female cousins, as usual, play their game…

The novel “Broken April” by Ismail Kadare, has given me a deeper insight of how violently the Albanian’s culture is, as my experience is exposed to its context, themes, and…