American novels

Isabella Aiello Mrs. Voshell Honors English 10 22 December 2017 Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a romance, historical, and American fiction novel, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne wrote this novel using a time scheme opening in Boston in the year 1642 and closing seven years later. Throughout this period of time little action occurred. The action that had arisen, involved a important character in one way or another. This relevant character, was one of the four…

how a novel about a bird could be so interesting. Once I researched the mockingbird and discovered it repeatedly mimicked songs of other birds and sounds of insects, I thought To Kill a Mockingbird could be about ending a tradition or belief about a particular thing. The idea of ending a tradition or belief made sense to me given that the novel was set in the Deep South and the South often has deep rooted traditions and beliefs that go back many generations. After reading what the novel is…

Ray Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author, best known for his novel “Fahrenheit 451”. In the book Fahrenheit 451, books are considered so dangerous a force in society they are banned, and literacy is a crime. For, Ray Bradbury the premise was fictional, but the animating belief in the power of reading was entirely real. "Reading is the most important thing in the world," he once said. "To live as a civilized human being, you've got to have something…

reform, Animal Farm provided a strong cultural criticism, The Great Gatsby showed the flaw in the American Dream, and To Kill a Mockingbird describes the trials and tribulations of growing up. Stories like this form an elite society of literature that spoke of the unspeakable and pushed forward a new mindset that many had overlooked. Among these ranks falls The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; a novel that follows the various picaresque adventures of Huck Finn and the runaway slave Jim. It is…

In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, he uses many different topics and literary devices to convey to the reader social issues that are occurring in the 1930s and how they compare to the new society formed in the State World. Some of the elements that Huxley uses to describe the government control over the citizens by brainwashing and drug dependency are precise diction, vivid imagery, and figurative language. He then uses these devices to show the moral and cultural decay in the New World.…

of Chronicle of a Death Foretold because of cultural and contextual concepts that went otherwise unnoticed while reading this novel by Marquez. Colombia has different cultural atmosphere created by customs and traditions that, as Americans, we cannot easily understand without researching the subject. In fact, one cultural concept that particularly changed my view of the novel once researched, was the gender roles portrayed in the work. I personally happen to be very oblivious to gender roles…

The Rune Trilogy is a series of crime fiction novels by American novelists Jeffery Deaver. The lead in the series is the title character Rune, a young streetwise woman living in New York City. Rune makes her first appearance in the first novel in the series Manhattan Is My Beat that was published in 1988. When we are first introduced to Rune, she is an aspiring filmmaker that just moved to New York City. Rune spends most of her time watching movies but often finds herself embroiled in a range…

At this point in the novel, Gatsby has finally reunited with Daisy after five years. Gatsby shows both Daisy and Nick around his mansion, noting Daisy’s reactions to his mansion. Later, a reporter comes to Gatsby’s house, whereupon Nick digresses and shares Gatsby’s background. As Nick describes Gatsby’s humble beginnings, he relies on comparison and biblical allusions to establish a theme of deceit and disillusionment that endures throughout the rest of the novel. Although Gatsby was born into…

After reading both Styron’s novel and Thomas Grey’s book, The Confessions of Nat Turner, I have come to the conclusion that both writings have holes in their accounts, that almost any historian can find fault in. Grey was a struggling writer that needed the money and could say anything he wanted after Nat Turner’s execution since Turner was no longer alive to point out inaccuracies. Then Styron openly admits that he is not a historian, he is a novelist. A novelist that cares more about…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee there is a conflict that shows the attitude of the characters. This conflict is the conflict between white and black people. The attitude of the characters that are shown through this conflict are Bob Ewell, Tom Robinson and The Jury. Each of these character’s attitudes remind me of something I can link to the outer world. Bob Ewell reminds me of Hitler, Tom reminds me of a child from a short story and the jury remind me of the history of…