1995 novels

Bessie Head’s “A Question of Power”: The Novel of Soul-Journey Abstract: In this paper, I propose to examine the nature of the myths which Bessie Head uses in special and unique way to establish a special signification for her novel, A Question of Power and the relation the myths hold to the universal question of Good and Evil. Bessie Head amalgamates myth and religion. Two aspects of her attitude is highlighted. One is, myths express the evolutionary nature of man’s psyche and the other is,…

CHAPTER 3: CRAFTMANSHIP IN THE WORKS OF RUSKIN BOND Bond is the master storyteller of the present age because he has developed his individual style of narration. His narration is marked with simplicity of tone and depth of meaning. Though, writing for him is a spontaneous overflow of emotions, his stories are carefully crafted. For him writing is a means of conversing with the world. He writes to ease his soul. He also believes that writing is an art, it needs as much devotion and love as an…

traditional Indian society and the other in the modern world. The common concern of Diasporic Literature is acculturation of immigrants. The immigrants plunge into the present and are able to accept changes. This is evident in the novel Sister of My…

This essay will include an analysis and summary of the text “Baglady”. The essay will also contain a description of the characters, the setting and symbols in the story. The text “Baglady”, written by A. S. Byatt, we are introduced to a fiction short story about a middle aged woman named Daphne and she’s attending a business trip with her husband and the company he is working in, to the Far East. Daphne then experiences some oddly things on a shopping trip. The short story starts in medias res,…

Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, perfectly describe Fugui’s character development throughout both the novel and the film adaptation of Yu Hua’s To Live. To Live follows the sorrowful life of Xu Fugui in a time of great change in Chinese society (the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution). Despite his character development and desire to grow, he is flawed. In both the film and the novel, Fugui has a crippling fear of losing face, which plays different roles in his life in each version…

Babbit. "Tuck Everlasting" is a fiction novel about an immortal family. This family was an outcast because they had something very strange happen to them. This strange event gave them no choice but to be on the run at all times. The novel is taken place in a village called Treegap in the 1880s. In this book there were two main characters Winnie and Jesse. So, let's start off with Winnie. Winnie is a girl that started it all. In the beginning of the novel she gets kidnapped by the Tucks. The…

successful emergence as a writer with the publication of her second novel, Sula (1973), it is a novel about a girl who lives in a small town in Ohio whose community is destroyed by World War I. It also shows the story of friendship between two African American women that begins in childhood and is damaged by the inability of the surrounding community and of the women themselves to recognize the primary significance of that relationship. The novel describes the racism that black experience in all…

Similar or Complete Opposites: Markus Zusak vs Anthony Doerr The Book Thief and All the Light We Cannot See are very well-rounded books by very brilliant authors. Both books are set around the time of World War II and tell the bitterness of the war. In Zusak’s book, The Book Thief, Liesel moves in with a new family during the time of World War II. Liesel steals books from the Mayor’s wife to “cope” with what she has/is going through. Her family takes in a Jewish hideaway named Max, and he helps…

“Sometimes you don’t realize you’re drowning when you’re trying to be everyone else’s anchor,” -Unknown. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s prominent novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a dispute between good and evil is present throughout the outstanding book, especially in Henry Jekyll and his struggle with the two sides of life. Dr. Jekyll seems to be endeavoring to find himself and figuring out who he truly is, but loses himself and falls from grace in his lifetime. Not everyone is…

ABSTRACT The gothic novel, albeit not considered high literature, counts among the most distinctive literary genres. The literary form was at its prime in late 18th century, although its days of glory have past elements of the Gothic can be found even in contemporary literature. Over the centuries, several sub-genres of the gothic novel have developed, including Southern Ontario Gothic. This branch of the Gothic is characterized by criticism of social attitudes towards race, politics, gender and…