Adventure novel

bears to Dickens ' own. At the opening of the novel David adresses the reader directly, stating “Whether I turn out to be the hero of my own life or whether that station will be held by anyone else these pages must…

long, complex sentences, extensive use of allusion, and a modern story-telling ability. Mediocre metaphors aside, The Name of the Star is a well-developed novel through Johnson’s use of beautiful descriptions and believable dialogue. The novel is a part contemporary, part paranormal thriller, marked by two different tones throughout. Johnson’s novel, The Name of the Star, demonstrates her contemporary and stylistic approach while also dealing with the theme of adapting to drastically different…

Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, represents being beat up by life, and ending up being better and stronger than before. Throughout the novel, Santiago is trying to achieve his dream…

consumed with grief and confusion. Throughout the rest of the novel, Miles and the Colonel try to unravel the mystery of whether her death was suicidal or accidental. The theme of memorialization appears…

that we can face while achieving our ‘Personal Legend’ are ourselves, that if we do not take the first step, we will never achieve anything in the first place, let alone face obstacles in the path. ‘Soul of the World’ is how the alchemy begins in the novel, although the Englishman should be given credit as well to have introduced so to the boy. The boy befriends new people and exchanges their stories with his, and learns of alchemy from the Englishman who wishes to seek ‘the alchemist’ who found…

apocalyptic world where teenagers are the hero's and the villains. It all starts with her becoming old enough to revived a name this is where her dream comes true and she becomes a huntress.Deuce is later appointed a partner Fade they both go on adventure but eventually are banished and they make their way to the upper world where they discover the elders had lied about the world and is not what they said it was.In the surface they fight off a gang and later join forces to fight off the freaks…

This novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” was written, by Zora Neale Hurston in 1937. In this book, Hurston discusses the existence of freedom in life and the overcoming challenges that come with it. The author uses differentiation in gender sexuality between males and females. During the novel it is showing the way to achieve fulfillment is by ignoring society’s pigeonholing and concentrating on one’s desires, while avoiding selfishness. Janie Crawford, the main character of the novel,…

Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is one of the greatest classical but controversial novels that have ever been written in the history of the American literature. Historically, this novel was dropped in a time where there was a movement called Realism; which was about documenting culture, nature, dialects, customs, traditions…etc back then. Despite the fact that this movement is about viewing scenes of regions, teaching lessons for social conduct, documenting and reflecting the…

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…

The fox and the hound is a 1981 American animated adventure drama film based on a 1967 novel written by American novelist Daniel P. Mannix. The novel unfolds the details of the life of Tod, a red fox that was raised by a human at the early year of its life and Copper, a bloodhound hunting dog. The novel won Dutton Animal Book Award in 1967 which made Walt Disney Production to buy over the film rights for the novel. After modifying from the original source to make it into a more family story,…