American novels

Push, is a novel written by Sapphire. Push was published by Alfred A. Knopf and the copy right date is 1996. Part Two Ramona Loften aka Sapphire is an American author and poet. She earned a bachelor’s degree of art at the City College of New York and her Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College. Sapphire had a difficult childhood. Her father molested at the age of eight and her mother abandoned the family five years later. In her teenage years, she dropped out of high school. Her childhood…

throughout the novel that work against her. For instance, the Native American society is an antagonist for Lulu because of the internal conflict it causes her. The novel states, “‘[Lulu] dyes her hair,’ I [Lulu] heard a voice behind me whisper. ‘Gray at the roots.’...By then there were near a hundred people in the room. ‘All those Lamartine sons by different father’” (280). As an antagonist, Native American society judges Lulu on everything she does because she is not a traditional “Native…

Joyce Carol Oates is a feeling of sharp reality as the novel captures the genuine lives that live through adversity and peace in the 1950s and 1960s United States. Oates’ novel provides an insight into the various ways many Americans lived in the middle of the twentieth century. The lifestyles showcased in the book, according to Oates’ writing, are meant to serve as an example into the basic day-to-day operations of the broader range of Americans at the time. Therefore, Joyce Carol Oates uses…

Perhaps the most unique novel in the realm of storytelling is The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, which tells the coming of age story of Esperanza, a young Latina girl in Chicago, through the use of vignettes and indirect storytelling. Throughout the novel, Cisneros utilizes vignettes almost as if they were diary entries, showing abbreviated clips from Esperanza’s life, and telling her story and the stories of other characters though specific detailed and emotional moments. This method…

audience of women themselves. The novel itself is filled with adequate use of Pathos and Ethos but lacks in the overall deliverance of logos, but Thompson properly powers through and successfully conveys the message that inner strength conquers all.…

Journey to an island, shrouded in mystery and dark magic... THE MATEGUAS ISLAND SERIES...multi-award-winning American Gothic Fiction! Book I - MATEGUAS ISLAND, A NOVEL OF TERROR AND SUSPENSE Book II - RETURN TO MATEGUAS ISLAND, A TALE OF SUPERNATURAL SUSPENSE Book III - GHOSTS OF MATEGUAS, A MATEGUAS ISLAND NOVEL What could be more idyllic than to live on an island off the coast of Maine? That's what Bill Andersen thought when he moved his family to Mateguas. But Mateguas is more than just…

better understand the themes of the novel. Symbolism is a device that an author uses to present a greater meaning behind a character or place, rather than making it obvious. In The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald focuses on the pursuit of the American dream while George Orwell’s 1984 focuses on the danger of totalitarianism. Both authors use symbols to emphasize their themes. Fitzgerald uses different colours and the Valley of Ashes to connect with the American Dream. Similarly,…

predictions of our present culture to actual post-modern novelistic examples, from reality to technological attributions, politics and intertextuality, the explanations for the deterioration in literary creativity and quality vary widely. The fate of the novel has taken a turn for the worse since post-modernism began in the 1950’s simply because people have lost their sense of reality in the world. Authors in this generation merely rewrite the past and foresee the future; in this process we’ve…

This novel has become one of the most controversial issues among high schools across the U.S. Many educators, literary critics, and other people believe it should be banned from the high school curriculum, predominantly because of the excessive use of the obscene word “nigger”. However, many believe the novel is an American classic and that it is extremely valuable to education, disregarding the ‘n’ word. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is a historically valuable novel,…

Scott Key Fitzgerald, famed for his novels concerning the elite of society, delved into the topic of the American Dream in his book The Beautiful and Damned. The novel illustrates the luxurious and miserable lives of Anthony Patch, Gloria Gilbert, and those they associate with. As Fitzgerald details Patch’s fall from grace, both morally and financially, he challenges the concept of the American Dream through the eyes of a member of the upper class. In this novel, Fitzgerald, by revealing his own…