American novels

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…

problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.” Bigotry goes further than one’s judgement; it spreads rapidly and defines humanity as a whole. It lies within the heart of society resulting in immense social issues that affect the innocent. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee utilizes the motif of prejudice to illustrate the prominence of the social issue of discrimination in Maycomb through Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. First, Atticus Finch faces animosity…

most books have been but with with the topics Catch-22 covers, war and government flaws, it is often the center of controversy and provokes people's emotions. In Joseph Heller’s novel we learn about the hardships that soldiers faced in World War II. Also the constant threat of danger along with corrupt…

Novel Analysis Set in two opposite time periods, these two books are as alike as they are different. It is easy to perceive that both novels, The Catcher in the Rye and Their Eyes Were Watching God, follow a noticeable pattern involving dialect, writing style, and theme. The novels address a clear theme of sexuality in two growing characters, as they explain their stories and lives throughout the course of the book’s journey. Both books take a very serious and stylistic approach to the topics…

your society was dystopian, meaning just about everything is unpleasant and totalitarian. As an audience reads about the dystopian society in the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, we are appalled about how miserable their society sounds. Little do we realize, this so called miserable society is very similar to our world as we know it. In the novel, the plot is centered on facing reality. As the story progresses we see many problems including war, drug abuse, and the lack of love. Montag,…

quote in hopes of getting the audience in his shoes. He wanted them to feel as if they were standing outside his house looking at it. This is important because as the reader continues to read the novel, Rodriguez hopes they will feel as if they’re in his shoes and sympathize with him throughout the whole novel. Another example of Imagery is “I looked up to the counter where red and green peppers were strung like Christmas tree lights and saw the frowning face of the stranger” (48). This example…

The centralized theme of the novel is the evil of mankind. In the novel, evil is an entity that can possess people against their will – like a spirit. Although that may sound like the run-of-the-mill Webster’s definition of evil, there is a difference, which is that in the novel, evil is personified. The novel uses its events to show how evil works in the real world, in a slightly mellow dramatic, but realistic way. Also, evil in this novel is known as Coyote, and this is because evil is being…

There are both similarities and differences between the book and the movie To Kill A Mockingbird. When some novels get turned into movies, the producers may cut important content that readers find crucial. Although the readers may not agree with cutting them it's necessary in order to limit the movie to a reasonable amount of time. Harper Lee’s novel has much more detail than the movie. One difference found in the movie was a lack of development of the character Calpurnia. In the book,…

and heroes, very few adaptations through either film or novel, capture the psychological struggles of war on the soldiers. In times of war, soldiers have to kill other soldiers, make tough decisions on the battlefront, and even dealing with the will to survive. These types of problems are usually foreign to a new soldier when he or she is just coming from civilian life. The setting of war can have serious effects on a person. Mailer’s novel shows that the harsh setting of war can change a…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children’s novel written by L. Frank Baum. Its smoothing story line is filled with beloved characters that are still talked about today in many literature classes. L. Frank Baum was born in New York in 1856, when children’s books were merely stories about basic themes and silly characters. Baum received most of his early education at tutor sessions in his home. Later in his adolescent years, he was sent to the Peekskill Military Academy, where he…