1992 novels

but the riots were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbance and that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, in 1992. The Riots began in The South Central Los Angeles which had spread out into different areas over a six-day period time with Los Angeles metropolitan area in California , beginning in April 1992. The Riots Began in April 19, 1992 After a Trial was over because the jury acquitted to four police officers in The Los Angeles Police Department of the use of an…

On April 29, 1992 South Central Los Angeles was lit with burning chaos. Rodney King, an African American male who was yet another the victim of Los Angeles police brutality, suffered a severe injustice. Injustices against blacks were not foreign in Los Angeles, California. The difference was that this time it was caught on camera and released to the public. The four police officers who were on trial for the unnecessary beating and brute violence against King was acquitted. All hell broke loose.…

Racism and discrimination has been a problem in the United States for hundreds of years. The United States has a long history of prejudicial thinking and behavior towards minorities. As the number of minorities and various ethnicities have grown within the United States, progress has all been made in regard to racism and discrimination. The movie, Freedom Writers, directed by Richard LaGravenese depicts how the color of a person 's skin can often define a person. Racism can exist between all…

The Borrowers by Mary Norton is a classic novel that does not get dated with time. “Marcus Crouch comments that, ‘of all the winners of the Carnegie Medal [awarded annually by the British Library Association to the best children's novel of the preceding year], it is the one book of unquestioned, timeless genius’” (Stott). The Borrowers was published in 1952 has continued to be read throughout the following years. This book is still in print and is still being read even sixty years after it was…

intricacy of classic romanticism. Released in 1992, his novel, in contrast to his other works of seemingly grim proportions, attracted a large amount of public attention to McCarthy, so much so that he decided to make this book the first of a trilogy. The novel was such a success that it was adapted as a movie starring Penelope Cruz and Matt Damon. The movie was released to the public in 2000. Critics said the movie included the same strong points as the novel, and this is why both works were…

professional life as a nurse, she always knew she had a passion for writing. Her very first novel, The Uncommitted took her nine years to write and publish and she isn’t stopping there. ("About Margaret.") She has a very chaotic life and still plans to publish the sequel by the end of 2017. ("Re: Student”) While working as a nurse, raising three children, and everything else she managed to finish the novel and win some awards. She received the Midwest Independent Publisher’s Award in 2015 for…

GITHA HARIHARAN AS A POST-MODERN INDIAN WOMAN ENLGISH NOVELIST/ Dr. P. SATYANARAYANA, Vice-Principal, Balaji College of Education, Anantapuramu, A.P. India. Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the novels of Githa Hariharan, basing on Theme and Technique. There a quite a large number of novels that use mythical events, characters and motifs as narrative strategies. The use of the Sita myth in Githa Hariharan’s ‘The Thousand Faces of Night’ focuses on the tragic predicament of Indian Women. In…

pretending to be 'normal', acting dumb. "He'd faked enough mistakes to keep him near the middle of the class… but they got him in the end," (Caswell, 1992, Pg. 10) and sent him to a place where there are others just like him, misfits in the world of 'normal'. Greg described it as, "You just couldn't live your whole live under a lie like that." (Caswell 1992, Pg.10) stating that Chris was somewhat relieved that he didn't have to pretend any longer. Hiding away your genius under a rock, just to…

Dalloway (ibid.). To identify the intertextual links between the two novels, Chatman (2005, 271) analyses the texts from different literary theoretical angles, and proposes that The Hours should be sub-labelled as “serious transformation” or “transposition”. This class of second-degree narratives1 typically models the new…

a Review, Sitting Pretty, (1993) pertinently comments: Seth belongs to the generation of practitioners of Indian Writing in English, born after Independence who has attracted attention in India and abroad and even made the reading and writing of novels a respectable pursuit. (Anita Desai 26) Due to the diversity of his themes, forms and genres, the literary world wants to study him. Thus, being an international writer, Vikram Seth does not restrict himself to any particular location or genre…