American novels

The kangaroo without a pouch Little KengaRo sat under a thick baobab tree and feel himself very sad. His mother, KangaRoo, went on a journey for the young leaves of acacia. Those beautiful trees grew close to the Croco Lake. KengaRo really wanted to travel with his mother - there near the lake was so interesting! But he couldn’t - his mother didn’t have a pouch for her little joey. All KengaRoo’s friends have the pouches - the traveler RaKenga has got, the mighty Ryu has got, the jumping…

Portnoy 's Complaint and Mama day are one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, focusing on family values and traditions passed from one generation to another generation. Even though written in two completely different styles, magical realism and satire, both novels masterfully illustrate a same central subject, a family unit and its heritage. Mama day is a perfect example of a work of magical realism. The author created a work which is at once a tale of the supernatural, a…

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is considered by literature critics to be the “Great American Novel” with the only other work considered to be of the same caliber being Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. Yet what makes a “Great American Novel” one may ask? A Great American Novel has to show the reader the culture of America at a specific time period. And F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Novel The Great Gatsby shows us the negative effects of American Society’s Notions of Materialism and the…

portray African American’s as stupid in the book. Likewise, today we see discrimination based on the speech of African Americans who speak in African American Vernacular English. As John R. Rickford a Stanford Linguistic Professor tells us that "research shows that non-native or vernacular speakers are less believed even when uttering innocuous statements” (Rigoglioso). African Americans today have equal rights and are citizens of the United States but due to the way they speak they are…

they teach evolve with fickle social climates and therefore transcend chronological barriers. Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is an example of such that fascinates young and old to this day. Hailed as the Great American Novel, it captures the essence of the Roaring Twenties, an era of opulence and moral debauchery. However, the book’s most enthralling aspect is not the engaging plot or otherworldly setting, but its extraordinary characters. From secret…

The so called “great american novel” portrays a life of grandeur and excitement which occupies the dreams of many who come to this country seeking a better life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby, the idea of the American dream is frequently touched upon and embodied. When the story was written, the dream of a better life where anyone could earn success filled the minds of the many impoverished souls who had immigrated to America in search of fulfilling it. The American dream is a staple…

is liberated. The Great Gatsby, an American novel, presents Nick Carraway’s exquisite use of numerous rhetorical devices used to give meaning to Gatsby and the American Dream. Jay Gatsby is the hollow being with a shallow dream who represents the lower class in America taking advantage of social mobility only to realize one has nothing. Through the use of extravagant language, Nick Carraway illustrates Gatsby’s life and desires as Americans aiming for the American Dream when it really only is a…

The American Idea The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald is about a man, Nick Carraway, telling the story of Gatsby and his undying love for Daisy. Unfortunately Gatsby is not able to be with Daisy because she is married to Tom Buchanan and because eventually, Gatsby gets murdered because of horrible lies that Tom had spread. Many characters in this book show how the American dream is not a standard and not something that is attainable. can have. It represents how the American dream is only an…

Fitzgerald expresses his criticism of the materialism of the Jazz Age through his juxtaposition of the idealistic Gatsby with the materialistic foil characters of Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Tom and Daisy are old money. They have no need, unlike Gatsby, to resort to criminal dealings because they have “possessed and enjoyed from a very young age” (O’Keefe. 20 November 2016). In that manner, the Buchanans are foils to Gatsby: they are old money to Gatsby’s nouveau riche, a contrast emphasized by the…

The Turn of the Screw and The American by Henry James are both amazing pieces of literature that share the same author yet differ stylistically and rhetorically. Both The American and The Turn of the Screw are written in a style unique to Henry James, but have certain rhetorical devices and style choices that differ from the other. The Turn of the Screw and The American are often considered different on account of their unique content and use of rhetorical devices, yet they still share the same…