1995 novels

Lolita, the novel that recounts the “intense and obsessive involvement of a middle-aged man with a sexually precocious young girl.” (Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia. "Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.") In the present-day, Lolita is considered Vladimir Nabokov’s most famous and controversial novel that implies obsessive desires, heartbreak, and transformation among other sensitive subjects. However, the Russian’s masterpiece was not always categorized as a favorite. The book itself had a resilient…

Princess’ directed by Alfonso Cuaron in 1995 and tells a story of a young girl from India, who is sent to stay at a boarding school while her father goes to fight in war, as her mother is dead. On the other hand, the novel ‘The secret Garden’ was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1911 and tells a story of a spoilt ten year old girl who has to move from India to her uncle's house in England after her parents had died from a disease. Both film and novel displays the theme of independence,…

fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviews Award for fiction, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. In 1997, Divakaruni wrote her first novel The Mistress of Spices. It is a dazzling tale of misbegotten dreams and desires, hopes and expectations, woven with poetry and story teller magic. Divakaruni says about her first novel the following: “I wrote in a spirit of play,. Collapsing the division between the realistic world of the twentieth century America and the timeless on…

Desert Blood/ Juarez murder is a mystery story by Alicia Gaspar De Alba. Gasper De Alba is a famous novelist and poet who has written a lot of historical novels and poems. She also wrote scholarly articles about Chicana art sensuality and customs. The story is a fictional mystery novel where the author reveals the epidemic of young women and girls who are brutally killed in the US –Mexico borders since the year 1993. The story is a biography as the author explains the events that happened to…

Tuesdays with Morrie is a story about an old college professor, Morrie Schwartz with his most preferable student, Mitch Albom, who is the author of the novel. There were no connections among the sixteen years between themselves after Mitch’s graduation from Brandeis although he has promised Morrie to keep in touch. Mitch was decided to meet Morrie after discovered the appearance of his professor on a television show ‘Nightline’. At that time, Morrie has already affected by Amyotrophic Lateral…

within To a God Unknown Delving into the world of literature one can dissect the rhymes and reasons of how novels strengthen their content through the uses of conflict to help develop the plot and overall theme. The novel To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck explores the use of the different types of conflicts to progress the plot and develop a theme. The first major conflict seen in the novel can be classified as a man against man conflict. Joseph has set off to California to pursue his…

I know there are bullies and bad people in this world, but have you ever thought about how it badly they really affect the victims? Sophie Kinsella pulls the readers in right from the first words of her realistic fiction book Finding Audrey. Throughout the book she shows the readers how bad things can have a huge impact on people. When I was near the end of this book, I realized I wished it was longer. I enjoyed this book thoroughly. I like how the author brought out the best and the worst in…

Jane Austen’s classic novel Emma and Amy Heckerling’s teen film Clueless show a profound reflection of how nineteenth century England and twentieth century America can respectively show how the transformation process can shape and enhance textual, intertextual and contextual meaning. By adapting the serene country society of Highbury, England in the eighteen hundreds to the upper class and fast paced modernism of Beverly Hills, America in the nineteen hundreds, an insight is given into the…

intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values, but could replace them only by despair or a cynical hedonism" (Hart, 1995, p.390). Gertrude Stein was the critic who gave them that name which later on will be used by Hemingway as a preface to his novel The Sun Also Rises. Most of these writers, who were members of the Lost Generation in the early twenties, experienced the war in some way or another. In this literary review,…

still hope, no matter how dire their living situation may be, or how dire the situation they just described may be. A speech given in the mid-20th century, it’s curious to see how Faulkner’s writing standards could connect to pieces written in 1988, 1995, and 2009, by various different authors writing about what means the most to them. The first aspect of Faulkner’s writing standards - optimism in a dire living situation - is a gauge best to be used against Freakonomics, a book authored by…