1995 novels

“The Book Thief demonstrates how growing up comes into play when devastation is around.” The book began in the earlier years of World War 2 so the younger characters started of as younger children. The readers know that from the beginning of the book to the end they came of age, especially Rudy and Liesel. The coming of age is becoming a mature person and fullfilling the responsibilities that come with growing up. In “The Book Thief” there are many examples of how this plays out in Liesel’s…

Literary Analysis Collection 1 Characters, conflict, setting, and theme are examples of literary elements. In the stories of “The Trip,” “The Leap,” and “Contents of a Dead Mans Pocket.” The authors use these literary elements in a similar and different ways. Characters are any person, animal, or figure represented in any literary work. Conflict is when two forces oppose one another in a literary work. Then there is setting which is the time or place in which a story occurs in a story. Theme is…

In stories of self-actualization there is most often an incident that is written off as unimportant, and in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” this trend continues. Janie’s relationship with Vergible “Tea Cake” Woods is generally regarded as the point where Janie discovers who she is as an individual, while her relationship with Joe Starks (Jody) is often overlooked. What seems to be overlooked is the fact that because of her relationship with Jody, Janie discovers what she…

In Margret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake, there is an underlying theme present through the entire novel of rape and consent. Or rather, the lack of consent and the constant presence of rape. The morals that many of the characters hold in terms of rape and consent aid in the destruction of the world by lacking in activeness to improve the society and class structure that they live in, thus providing low standards for themselves and making it easier for humans to be wiped out completely. This idea…

authors include themes in their works in which they convey their opinions on certain topics. John Steinbeck, author Of Mice and Men, and John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace, include a number of themes in their written works. The realistic fiction novels give the reader similar portrayals of the same theme. In both, A Separate Peace and Of Mice and Men, the theme of friendship is similarly portrayed. Knowles has illustrated the tensions that can arise in a friendship, because of certain…

Armstrong, Nancy. How Novels Think: the Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900. Columbia University Press, 2006 This book discusses the thematic structure of how an individual is created within a novel. In this work, the critic is making the argument that, historically, novels and individuals are one in the same. According to Armstrong, the character must first find a frustration with their position in the social order, and then work to change it. How Novels Think also reveals how the new…

The postulation of various possibilities and outcomes is a type of thought that is so vast and broad that there is no clear end or solution. Through literature, specifically “The Aleph” and “The Garden of Forking Paths”, Borges attempts to explore the different ways to articulate the topic of infinite time and space by placing distinct attention to certain aspects. Though Borges develops his short stories in various ways to bring such fantastical ideas to the center, they arrive at a similar…

Inside Out & Back Again In the novel “Inside Out & Back Again “writing by Thanhha Lai, is about a 10 year old girl named Ha that became a refugee.When a refugee flees their home they have to figure out what they are going to do,but in this case the dad was a marine so they had privileges.When refugees find a new home they have to learn the ways of those people, for example the in the book it states “Until you children master english you must think, do, wish for nothing else”.The reason why…

although what is unusual or atypical varies between cultures and from one period to another” (US National Library of Medicine, 2017). In other words, Christian and Anastasia are in a BDSM relationship, which is the main focus of the erotic romance novel. So, this type of sexual…

“Shoot the Damn Dog” is written by Sally Brampton, a successful magazine editor and prize-winning journalist; who would have thought that behind a very successful and glamorous career, as the editor of Elle and then of Red, was a story that many (of her friends and colleagues) knew nothing about “Depression”. She struggled with ongoing, severe depression and alcoholism. It was the hardest thing for her as she described the struggle in her book “I found that a steady stream of alcohol together…