American novels

his readers to obtain rely enlightenment. Character is the soul of Bhagat’s novels. The plot i.e. story is the second important ingredient. Therefore character is prior to the plot. His characters are social rebels who remind us the Angry Youngman that dominated English novel in the 1950’s. His female protagonists remind us the female character of GB Shaw for their vitality natural female instinct. Place of action of his novel is set in the hustle and bustle of metropolitan Indian cities where…

to Find”, any reader faces a problem. This problem can be determined as the philosophical one and cannot be explained only as a problem of literature in general and the problem of American literature in particular. The problem of the evil in this world is as old as the world itself is and O’Connor is not the first American man of letters that tries to cope with it. Many outstanding US writers looked for the main answers, provoked by this problem. Really, we all want to know why evil and…

Heterogeneous Narrative Perspective Absalom, Absalom! is a novel written in 1936 by William Faulkner, the winner of two Pulitzer’s and a Nobel Peace prize for his many literary masterpieces. Faulkner has gained a celebrated reputation for his depiction of life in the American South. Though critics have established Absalom, Absalom! as Faulkner’s most difficult writing, it is also revered for its intellectually enriching metaphors and the complicated spiraling of events through narration.…

"Aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." These are words Upton Sinclair used to describe how he felt about the effectiveness of his novel The Jungle. While it is true that Sinclair was trying to use his work to persuade the public to change their political ideology, his novel still had a major effect on society. It may not have been in the way Sinclair intended, but The Jungle still holds a piece of the public’s heart today, holding testament to the menacing ways…

advantages that films have over novels is their ability to actually show the audience, in the visual sense, the events of a story. As the saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words”, which is applicable to several scenes in the film. I think that one of the most important of these moments is when Homer enters the telegraph office to find Grogan dead and sees the message meant for his family about Marcus’ death. While this was quite a somber scene in the novel, I found it to be even more…

The novel to Kill a Mockingbird is written by Harper Lee. It is set in the 1930s, in this time period the area had economical, racisim, and sexisim issues. This book was published in 1960, it is still read in taught across the nation. Students are able to make some modern connections to this novel and realize how the 1930s affect us now. The book is set to 1930s, in the 1930s racism was accepted by most of the white community. Because of this toleration of racism, the Ku Klux Klan is an…

personal realities, unaffected by the real world. The women in these novels effectively invent the world around them through stories, lies, or manipulations. First, Yolanda in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is a poet by trade, a story teller. The basis of the novel is the idea that people are made of the stories others tell about them as much as anything else. This idea is evident within just the first few chapters of the novel, with Yolanda’s mother telling stories about childhood.…

erudite, Indian born American writer whose literary career started as early as 1970. Calcutta born, She migrated to the US to do her M.F.A in Creative Writing, in 1963. She is presently a professor at the University of California, Berkely. She is married to Clark Blaise , an American writer. She is an ardent admirer of the writings of Malamud and V.S.Naipaul. Shashi Deshpande, Jumpha Lahiri, Anita Desai and Shoba De are some of her contemporary writers. Bharathi Mukherjee’s novels mainly focus…

he shed light on Native American culture and brought it to life for readers through Navajo tribal police officers Sgt. Jim Chee and Lt. Joe Leaphorn, who dealt with mayhem and mystery through many of Hillerman’s novels. Hillerman began writing mysteries, as well as novels and memoirs, in the 1960s after a career in journalism. He gained intimate knowledge of the Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni tribes while growing up and living around them. “It always troubled me that the American people are so ignorant…

layers of meaning. It expresses an idea, clarifies meaning, or enlarges literal meaning. In the “Namesake”, the symbol and idea of immigrant culture is clearly evident in the novel especially among the characters, the themes, and overall flow of the novel. The characters, settings, and issues faced by the characters in the novel provide examples of immigrant culture including problems faced by immigrants such as adjusting to a new country. The “Namesake” provides the reader a clear look into the…