American novelists

The Case of Moral Courage in To Kill a Mockingbird Moral courage by definition is the courage to do the right thing despite the opposing risks or fears that lies ahead, American novelist Harper Lee once wrote “instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” (112) When composing her book “To Kill a Mockingbird” in it Lee expresses the coming of age of the…

“But Their Ugliness Was Unique”: An African American Literary Examination of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye Does being ugly refer to the physical aspects of a person, the way they think, the color of their skin, or the way in which one is raised? Toni Morrison, an African American novelist, originally named Chloe Anthony Wofford, interprets and examines the “black experience” throughout her many novels (http://www.britannica.com/Toni-Morrison). The Bluest Eye, being one of them, is a remarkable…

` People deny racism even exists in the United States, but one does not have to look far to see blatant signs of racism, you just have to look to our prison system. The high rate of incarceration in the African American community is due to the institutional racism that still exists to this day, through the use of drugs, gangs and police discrimination the United States has created an environment for constant racial discrimination. The drug business in the United States is the biggest…

Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was an era of a creative explosion that took place in the African American society between 1920 and fading out before the Depression era. Although Harlem, New York was the center of the African American cultural Renaissance, the geographical boundaries could not always be clearly distinct. The writers, poets, musicians and artists of that period came from all over the country, especially the south to escape the racial prejudices and the oppressive…

the most preeminent writers of the twentieth century African American, Zora Neale Hurston is a novelist, folklorist, essayist, short story writer, dramatist and an anthropologist. Hurston was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and a passionate promoter of the African American culture. However, she refused to let race and racism be the only focus of her work, something that she was criticized a lot for by her African American peers. Instead Hurston’s short stories and novels reflected…

Throughout history, American beauty standards have continued to give an unfair advantage to those with light skin. These ideals consequently leave a lasting and painful impression on those that do not fit this criteria. Toni Morrison, an African American female novelist who experienced these hindrances firsthand, brings to light the struggle African Americans face daily to overcome these systematic barriers in her works. Through symbolism and contrasting perspectives that follow…

of the common wealth nations and who are under the age of thirty five. Her second book “Inheritance of loss” was appreciated by the critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. Kiran Desai has won the man booker prize fellowship by the American academy. Kamala Markandeya was also the great of Indian women writers. Nectar in a sieve is her debut novel. It depicts the rustic India and sufferings of farmers. Her novels explain the problems of Indian’s ordinary middle-class life and the…

There have been many documented case studies of so-called ‘ghetto’ subcultures in the fields of both sociology and criminology. Researchers and novelists alike have sought to document the lives, experiences, and hardships of these socio-economically deprived neighborhoods in an attempt to understand the violence that is so often associated with the streets. Author Elijah Anderson sought to explain this very phenomenon in his 1999 book, entitled Code of the streets: Decency, violence, and the…

identity, since name symbolizes how he sees himself and how he wants to be seen by others. Later, Gogol changes his name to Nikhil, since he feels it reflects his dual identity, both being Indian and also American, better. Nikhil is indeed a Bengali name but it can also be shortened to an American nickname, Nick. Therefore, it is a hybrid name in which it will be easier for him to deal better with his dual…

The book I did this book report on is Invisible Man, the author is Ralph Ellison. Ralph was an American novelist, scholar, and literary critic. His best novel is Invisible Man.For the book, Invisible man is fiction and bildungsroman, so you can expect to see the protagonist have some physiological growth in this book. Main Characters for this book are The Narrator, Brother Jack, Ras, and Mary. The Narrator is the protagonist in this book, he is a well-educated black man who is a very gifted…