Campus novel

In the novel Looking For Alaska, Miles “Pudge” Halter is the new student at Culver Creek Prep in Alabama. Although, he was nervous about making friends, his roommate Chip “Colonel” Martin immediately takes him under his wing. He meets Alaska Young and instantly falls in love with her. His friends let his experience many new things such as smoking, drinking, and romance. After Christmas break, the friends plan and prosecute the pre-prank called Barn Night. Where Pudge and Takumi get the Eagle (Mr…

mining plan, and Dean Harstad, whose use of, “patience as a weapon” the passionate and driven Chairman X finds irritating to the point where he daydreams of murdering Harstad (Smiley 40). Despite these two points of conflict, in the beginning of the novel, Chairman X is mainly concerned with his garden outside Old Meats and with creating a socially conscious generation of students as he worried that, “whatever…

films like Anthem and The Giver grab the attention of teens because they can relate. The Giver is a film directed by Phillip Noyce based off the novel by Lois Lowry and Anthem is a novel written by Ayn Rand. Teens can relate to the characters in dystopian stories like Jonas or Equality though school, whether it is because they are not allowed off of campus during school hours or because the students have to learn all of the same things and are limited. Everyone has heard that knowing too much…

Thud! Gene looks down and sees a body just laying there with no move. Gene Forrester is the protagonist of the novel “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles and has some conflict just as he’s getting comfortable in his new school, Devon. Elwin (Leper) Lepellier is a minor character who is known as the social outcast of the school. Throughout the book, Gene and Phineas (Finny) become best friends and their friendship takes its toll on each of them. Due to the main conflict of the story, Gene’s…

glory and a broken love affair were impelled which led him to join the British Royal Air Force. Upon returning home, he enrolled in a few university classes and published poems and drawings in the campus newspaper. Despite coming up short as a poet, Faulkner joined a literary crowd, was famous for his novels set in American South, and won the Nobel Prize and other awards. After the war, Faulkner met Sherwood Anderson where he became a mentor to him and Ernest Hemingway. These two major…

enigmatic writer, we know that he has a fascination with archeology, human accomplishment, and history and has had a rich and varied life. He is best known for the Thomas Lourds series of novels that has four titles of which the first, The Atlantis Code is the most popular. He began researching the first novel when he saw an article about the ancient lost city of Atlantis in a scholarly journal that utterly fascinated him. According to the author, the article pointed out that some ruins in Spain…

trust and understanding. In the novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the term “friendship” occurs between the two main characters, Gene Forrester and Finny. The boys’ friendship is heavily driven by competition and this can lead to a negative connotation of their relationship with each other. However, as the story unfolds, their relationship evolves from being so innocent and pure to one being misunderstood and rivalry driven. There is a theme of innocence in the novel, and it is portrayed…

John Green has been put on a pedestal in the literary world, after so much praise from critics for ‘The ‘fault in our stars’,so I felt compelled to delve into his debut novel, ‘Looking for Alaska’. Our high school years has to be the time were we all focus on our beliefs, self-image, and anything other that our grades. Green accurately captures the essence of high school. Through the perspective of the protagonist, Miles Halter, the audience is guided through his journey of self-discovery and…

transgression, foreshadowing the country’s Civil War to come. Okri uses ironic distance in this novel as well. Like other magical realist authors such as Isabel Allende, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Allejo Carpentier, Syl Cheney-Coker, Kojo Laing, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, Ben Okri has his own idea that overwhelms the possibility of rejuvenation in magical realism. Magical realism as a journey of soul searching plays its vital role. Ben Okri along with other…

Withal, Mrs. Fisher didn’t listen to him all of the time. In fact, she didn’t listen to Paul when there was Paul when he told them about the mailbox issue with his brother, Erik. This event later happened in the novel. In addition, in the text it states, “I followed slowly, angry at mom for calling attention to my eyesight. She wanted a tour of the place because she’s nosy and want to see everything for herself” (Pg. 25, Para. 5). This shows that Mrs. Fisher…