Throughout the history, many awards have been created in order to recognize the best achievements. According to Oxford Dictionary, award is “the action of giving a payment, compensation, or prize”. Besides, prizes are awarded usually to people who accomplish to be the best in any specific category such as sports, school, artistic or even literature. In addition, within these categories, it can also find other different recognitions, since the awards tend to be dedicated to a concrete genre. For instance, focusing on literary prizes, they claim the best literary piece which is usually presented by an author, however, prizes usually refer to any specific type due to there are different ways of writing such as poetry or novels and genres such
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However, the existence of criteria is an important point in order to follow the steps to show why works can be considered the best in their specific genre. For instance, the criterion for one of the Pulitzer Prize’s genre is “for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life” (Administration of the Prizes). Thus, focusing on two literary works awarded as the best work of fiction in the Pulitzer Prize; House Made of Dawn (1969) by N. S. Momaday and The Hours (1999) by M. Cunningham, this essay will demonstrate why these novels were considered the winners of the prize in their year, by analysing the major themes from the criterion used for fiction works. On the one hand, House Made of Dawn is considered the major novel in Native American Literature in which the protagonist’s identity and the importance of the landscape are the most relevant themes. On the other hand, The Hours has a stream of consciousness narrative style which helps to reveal the best themes of it; sexual identity and …show more content…
However, after the teachings of his grandfather, Abel feels that he has no relationship with them, since he feels like a stranger. To demonstrate this, a good example in the novel could be The Eagle Watcher Society which is an organization very representative in the Abel’s community. This society celebrates a ceremony for the hunting of an eagle. Thus, the fact that the tribe ritualize this act is what causes that Abel does not identify with his tribe, since he finds a totally different feeling there that he cannot understand; “they were medicine men; they were rain-makers and Eagle hunters” (Scott, 2010, p. 15). Abel shows a different attitude in comparison with the rest people of his community and, this is because he does not find the relationship between man and animal as a tribal religion does, and because of this, he decides to leave that world because he is not able to find his belonging through those traditions. Besides, the land is another major theme that emphasizes within this novel, which also follows the criterion of the prize for works of fiction because it has to do with American life. Throughout the story, many descriptions of the landscape are shown, since Momaday tries to emphasize the importance of the physical landscape, specially, in the Abel’s tribal
However, the existence of criteria is an important point in order to follow the steps to show why works can be considered the best in their specific genre. For instance, the criterion for one of the Pulitzer Prize’s genre is “for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life” (Administration of the Prizes). Thus, focusing on two literary works awarded as the best work of fiction in the Pulitzer Prize; House Made of Dawn (1969) by N. S. Momaday and The Hours (1999) by M. Cunningham, this essay will demonstrate why these novels were considered the winners of the prize in their year, by analysing the major themes from the criterion used for fiction works. On the one hand, House Made of Dawn is considered the major novel in Native American Literature in which the protagonist’s identity and the importance of the landscape are the most relevant themes. On the other hand, The Hours has a stream of consciousness narrative style which helps to reveal the best themes of it; sexual identity and …show more content…
However, after the teachings of his grandfather, Abel feels that he has no relationship with them, since he feels like a stranger. To demonstrate this, a good example in the novel could be The Eagle Watcher Society which is an organization very representative in the Abel’s community. This society celebrates a ceremony for the hunting of an eagle. Thus, the fact that the tribe ritualize this act is what causes that Abel does not identify with his tribe, since he finds a totally different feeling there that he cannot understand; “they were medicine men; they were rain-makers and Eagle hunters” (Scott, 2010, p. 15). Abel shows a different attitude in comparison with the rest people of his community and, this is because he does not find the relationship between man and animal as a tribal religion does, and because of this, he decides to leave that world because he is not able to find his belonging through those traditions. Besides, the land is another major theme that emphasizes within this novel, which also follows the criterion of the prize for works of fiction because it has to do with American life. Throughout the story, many descriptions of the landscape are shown, since Momaday tries to emphasize the importance of the physical landscape, specially, in the Abel’s tribal