Bildungsroman

How Huckleberry Finn is a Coming of Age Novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is just like To Kill a Mockingbird because, Harper Lee wrote, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” This relates to Huck Finn because both novels have characters who mature from life lessons. Mark Twain, the author of Huck Finn shows how the main character Huck matures from a young boy who does not want to live by any rules to a boy who matures from conflicts and…

Hercules, Ariel, Belle, Mr.Incredible, Marlin, and Beowulf. What do all of those characters have in common? They’re all heroes. After hearing five familiar names, you may wonder who Beowulf is. Beowulf is a hero and this is his story. The graphic novel, Beowulf, by Gareth Hinds is an epic poem made up of three books. Each book features the hero known as Beowulf, the son of Ecgtheow. In the novel, Beowulf faces many challenges and goes on many quests. Time after time, he protects his people from…

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson are novels that are both considered to be bildungsromans. They both have a strong sense of the character’s growth and journey to find their true selves, even when in a hostile environment. Both novels have an element of betrayal that force the protagonists Celie and Jeanette to face who they truly are, and fight back against a suppressive figure. Then, they must search for their own identity in a world…

Introduction The Book Thief is a Bildungsroman of sorts, dealing with the protagonist, Liesel Meminger. The odd narration by Death supplies it with a sense of ambiguity that no other book seems to emulate. This novel regarding the journey of Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl who was given up by her mother in 1939, she embarks a new life living with Hans and Rosa Hubermann in the humble town of Molching. Liesel’s journey evokes many mishaps and moments of joy; the book…

Although John Knowles’s novel, A Separate Peace, is set in the midst of WWII, there is a lack of the typical violence and combat associated with the war. However, Knowles uses wartime themes to depict the personal battles the protagonist is forced to face. The most prevalent of the wartimes themes present in the main characters of the novel are feelings of hostility and enmity. This demonstrates that the war, although not physically occurring with the United States, is still taking a toll on…

E.B. White’s children’s novel Charlotte’s Web encapsulates a trifecta of distinctive features. The bildungsroman work accomplishes the tasks of telling a great story, educating the young, and catering to the moral, intellectual, physical, and emotional needs of children, from within the story and out. White captures appropriate progression and maturation, especially through the protagonists Wilbur and Fern. To Love and To Be Loved A child’s need for love is based on security and it is…

A Man With All His F-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s Intact J.D. Salinger is an author with a complicated past of misogyny, pedophilia, and abusing his female spouses. Former lover of Salinger’s, though she prefers not to be remembered that way, and author, Joyce Maynard, has said, “The vision that emerges of Salinger’s relationships with women… is a bleak one, suggesting a man who spent his life fixated on a fantasy of youthful innocence while refusing to contend with the realities of day-to-day domestic…

My first semester of senior year has been a very stressful ride full of learning and new experiences. I look forward to what second semester has in store for me and even more importantly, my first year at college. My skills have grown in areas of reading, writing, discussion, and mental processing. QUOTATION One of my favorite authors that I learned about in first semester was Queen Elizabeth I. History is my favorite subject so of course I knew about her beforehand; however, I did not know…

Lily Andersen Mrs. Hellem English-4 10 May 2016 Curiouser and curiouser Whoever said fairytales are for everyone was right. Alice’s Wonderland is a dream come true, filled with talking flowers, clothes-wearing animals and colorful characters. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has long been a fanciful escape for young children and adults everywhere with the intent of exercising their imaginations and preserving their youth. But is this truly what Lewis Carroll wanted his novel to accomplish?…

Rebecca Adams DeVaney-Lovinguth World Literature I 3 May 2016 Dante’s Inferno Dante Alighieri is the author of The Divine Comedy, which is considered as a literary epic scale. This is characterized among the central texts that have been presumed from the Western literature and it is described as the unique and largest poem during the middle ages. Dante is considered as an activist, writer, and theologian who were born around 1625 in Florence and his literary works have always been used over…