1992 novels

Hurricane and flood in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston illuminates the similarity between the novel and the natural disaster that occurred in south Florida in 1992. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the protagonist, Janie has one main life goal, to try and find her true self. She marries and remarries three times in hope of finding the right man who can help her find herself. Hurricane Andrew that took place in south Florida in 1992 has a correlation with…

John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, is a book about two friends, Lennie and George, with a dream of owning their own land during the Great Depression in California. Steinbeck tells a story full of themes relevant to the time period it was written in, including the need for companionship, the loneliness that plagued so many people in the 1930s, and the American dream of getting a place of one’s own and taking control over their life, utterly failing. Because of the relatability of the book…

He is a Jewish gay writer born in Connecticut in 1935. His breakout novel was his book “Faggots,” a critique on the lifestyle of gay men in the 70s. When the AIDS virus hits the US he finds another calling in activism. He forms the groups Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ACT UP. Throughout his controversial life he’s found many enemies, though. Larry was always a critic on gay men and their culture, and this was apparent in his novel “Faggots.” It gained much controversy. A gay playwright, Robert…

THE SECRET HISTORY: A novel analysis The secret history is a fictional novel written by an American writer Donna Tartt and was published in year 1992. It was the first novel of Donna Tartt and the story addresses a different perspective of typical college students’ life. Donna Tartt was born in the 23rd of December year 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi. She enrolled in the University of Mississippi in which where her writings has caught the attention of a famous American writer Willie Morris.…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, a historical novel is set in a period of history and works to convey the social conditions, manners, and spirits of the time in realistic manner. Also, a historical novel may have a mix of historical figures and fictional characters. An author of historical novels may choose focus on a specific event or the overall society and how a particular set of characters is affected by events of the time. Based on this view of a historical novel it may seem as though a work of…

that’s when my mom introduced me to Fiela’s Child, a South African novel originally written in Afrikaans by Dalene Matthee, who published a total of thirteen books during her lifetime (Dalene Matthee). Translated into English, German, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Slovenian, and Swedish, the tale offers insight into the state of nineteenth-century South Africa while crafting an unforgettable story that voices numerous truths. The novel has provided the most impactful history lesson to me by offering a…

predictions of our present culture to actual post-modern novelistic examples, from reality to technological attributions, politics and intertextuality, the explanations for the deterioration in literary creativity and quality vary widely. The fate of the novel has taken a turn for the worse since post-modernism began in the 1950’s simply because people have lost their sense of reality in the world. Authors in this generation merely rewrite the past and foresee the future; in this process we’ve…

Kurt Wallander is the lead character in the Kurt Wallander series of novels created by Swedish crime author Henning Georg Mankell. Mankell published the first novel in the series Faceless Killers in 1991 before he went on to publish nine more titles culminating in the 2010 published The Troubled Man. Kurt Wallander is a small town detective working in the coastal town of Ystad in Sweden. He is a very dedicated cop who has a knack for getting the smallest but most important of details from any…

cultural belief that a woman’s success is to be married is a contradiction of her first definition of success. This results in a struggle between these two beliefs in Jane Eyre. Furthermore, the culture expectations of women deeply embedded in Bronte’s novel create a parallel between the story lines of Cinderella and Jane Eyre. Bronte’s belief that a woman should have an equal standing with a man is exemplified in chapter 12. Reflecting on the subpar nature…

for if dream dies, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly” (Langston Hughes). The film “Of Mice and Men” directed by Gary Sinise is an adaption of the novel with the same name written by John Steinbeck, it depict the icon living conditions and life style of itinerant farm workers in California during the Great Depression. Both the novel and the film develop the themes of “friendship,” “loneliness,” and “loss of dreams” and use the actions of the characters to portray these themes through…