1992 novels

its thoughtful due.” Naylor believes herself to be a wordsmith and a storyteller. There is a reflection of her personal life and familial past in the form of names, places and even in the stories in her novels.Her novels are “linked” together. She refers to characters and places in one text that becomes significant in the next text. Naylor also draws extensively on the bible, which…

few encounters in Anand's first novel, Untouchable reflects humanity. Now-a-days, we see a lot of ingratitude between parents and their children and how the sensitive relationships are becoming worse. In this connection, I feel, Bakha, a protagonist in Untouchable is really a modern Sravana Kumara. We can clearly notice Bakha's sensitive feelings towards his father, Lakha and his sister, Sohini. Though Lakha's abusing words cut Bakha's tender heart throughout the novel, Bakha does not say a…

“Continuidad de Los Parques” features a skilful manipulation of a mere 543 words in order to insert a story within a story. In the first realm, (or story one) a man retreats to a novel he had begun reading a few days earlier and had to leave due to urgent business matters. This realm is initially portrayed as a description of reality. Sitting in his study in an armchair of green velvet, with his head resting comfortably against the back of the chair, he enjoys the presence of his cigarettes and…

characters in the novel’s setting affect the way in which women are portrayed in this novel. The setting is, in turn affected by the historical events, the philosophy and the beliefs of that era. I am going to proof this by looking at the following novels; Catch-22, A Clockwork Orange, The Merchant of Venice and Catcher in the Rye; The novel, Catch-22, is a satirical novel that is full of a male-centered view. The novel, Catch-22 is inhabited by men who are soldiers that are dependent on…

Abstract: Most of the novels written after the publication of Midnight’s Children deals with the aspect which focuses on national history cutting across personal narratives. Most of the writers are deracinated from their roots: familial, cultural, national, religious and linguistics and therefore use polyphonic form to explore their past. It comes as no surprise to find that Amitav Ghosh is a writer concerned with India’s place in larger international cultural networks, whose fiction seems…

Krakauer utilizes irony to establish McCandless’ unique personality. By using this the literary device, irony, he presents the story of Christopher McCandless. On the first page of the authors note, Krakauer gives a description of his novel. He writes, “In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters” (Krakauer, 1). However,…

The Secret Circle series is a paranormal romance series of novel by LJ Smith. Lisa Jane Smith who writes professionally as LJ Smith is a world renowned author of young adult fiction. One of her best known series it The Vampire Diaries that went on to become a popular and highly successful TV series by the same name. Smith’s novels in the Night World and Vampire Diaries series have been award winning titles and several time New York bestsellers over the years. Prior to becoming a full time author…

forty novels and short stories (“List” 1-3). His creative works have been used and adapted into seventy movies (“Adaption” 1-2). Although Dickens died over one hundred fifty years ago, movies are still being filmed as recently as 2013 (Times 1); Great Expectations filmed in 1946 is considered as Dickens’ most popular movie (Shortlist 3). A Tale of Two Cities has sold over two hundred million copies and listed as number six on a list of best-selling books of all time (“Guess” 1). His novels are…

critic MadhuDubey states that “like Walker, Toni Morrison is widely acclaimed as a “major author” of the developing black women’s fictional tradition”(2). Actually, in her novels, Morrison has repeatedly insisted on black women’s identity as depicted in The Bluest Eye(1970), Sula(1973), Beloved(1989), and A Mercy(2008).In her novel Paradise, Morrison subverts traditional gender rules by bringing the female characters to the foreground and giving them agency. She exposes the readers to a new type…

contributor that influenced many. He helped bring science fiction writing to light and helped write for many famous and controversial films. He even wrote the screenplay for the 1956 Moby Dick film. But perhaps one of his most influencing pieces is his novel, Fahrenheit 451. While popular interpretation is that Fahrenheit 451 is about censorship, Bradbury directly disagrees. He says that the theme is about television and technology making it harder for us to understand other more complicated…