American novels

with regards to utopianism and its inherent instability and how it relates to the Gulf Islands in which Edna Pontellier and her family vacationed in the novel. Castro states that literary naturalism represents the limitations placed on the human will, but scholars have been unable to take account of the Gulf Islands’ spatial histories in the novel (Castro 68). Castro claims the utopianism of the island was undermined by a hurricane that hit the gulf coast in 1893, which was ever present in…

Director Baz Luhrmann of The Great Gatsby aimed to bring to life F. Scott Fitzgerald's American classic to life. Throughout the film Luhrmann shows the drama, sadness, and you get to see the party atmosphere. Luhrmann also portrays the characters pretty accurately to Fitzgerald’s novel, and to most of the settings that are mainly touched such as the Valley of Ashes, Gatsby’s house, and the Buchanan's house. As well as, uses mainly all of the appropriate music of a combination of both jazz and…

Edith Wharton was an American writer known for the bountiful novels and other story types she written during her lifetime. She was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862 to a fairly wealthy family. Growing up, Edith didn’t attend school. Instead she was taught by tutors. Although she is greatly known for her novels, Edith wasn’t allowed to read novels until she was married at the age of 23. Nevertheless, she published her first poems at the age of 16. Her first short story was called, Mrs.…

Catastrophist" by Patricia Coughlan. This article was chosen because it covered the topics we were interested in as a group. Ariel focused on colonial theory in the novel, Caitriona focused on comparing the Congo to the Irish Troubles and my focus was on the representation of decolonization and injustice in the novel. Bennett’s novel make use of allegory and parallels in dealing with political issues. The Catastrophist, deals with the Belgian Congo on the eve of independence while also…

How can an African-American woman think for herself? In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, which took place in the southern parts of the United States in the late 1800s. The author, Zora Neale Hurston wrote of a woman named, Janie, that fought against three men that she married for her independence. She was victorious in this endeavor of becoming independent but at the cost of emotional and physical pain. Janie can be characterized as the evolving heroine of this story. Janie Crawford is…

Huckleberry Finn is an American classic. A journey of a young boy and a runaway slave as his companion. Although, their journey towards freedom takes a turn. Twain had stopped midway through his novel and when he picked it up to finish he lost sight of its original purpose. Huck Finn is a lame excuse to discuss slavery, it does not consider the importance of the journey nor does it convey the right message. One specific critic had a strong viewpoint of how Twain unsuccessfully wrote the novel.…

The novel I Am Legend written by in 1954 is a classic book that merges horror with science fiction. Richard Matheson, an American writer, wrote the book with this book being influential in the development of zombie-inspired genre of fiction. Its scope and area of discussion is simple, where it involves an era when the nuclear war has ended, but a major mutation spreads across the world. It changes every human being living on the surface of the earth except one person: Robert Neville. The rest of…

that represents women in the old times, where they had no freedom, no voice, and were properties of their husband. In Chopin’s novels, The Story of an Hour, The Storm and The Awakening, all have some similar and differences between each protagonist, plot, setting, symbols and themes within the stories. Kate Chopin was born as Kate O’ Flaherty (1850-1904) and was an American female author. She was the third out of five children, in which her sisters died when they were infants. Her childhood was…

Twentieth century novel Modern novelist can be divided into those who continue within a broad tradition of realism and those who experiment far more with the form of novel. Writers such as john Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Graham Green, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing, Ernest Hemingway, John Updike and Saul Bellow are essentially realist. They are less interactive then the nineteenth century realists. They present a credible picture in which we are not particularly aware of the novelist presence.…

risk.” Courage plays a large role in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Throughout the novel, courage was seen through the characters Jem Finch, Scout Finch, Boo Radley, and Atticus Finch. These characters all demonstrate excessive ideas of courage as the novel goes on. Through the characters minds there is fear involved, but was overcome by their courageous actions. To begin with, Jem and Scout Finch show many examples of courage in the novel. One major example is when Jem…