Campus novel

curiosity for life. Lastly, they both lack close and loving relationships, causing them to act spiteful and vengeful. Overall, the parallels between Victor and his creation grow more apparent throughout the novel and they greatly detail the similarities between the two characters. Throughout the novel, both Victor and the creature experience feelings of isolation from society and the world. Despite having family and friends, Victor Frankenstein still seems to…

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is a novel that portrays a teenage boy’s struggles with adolescence. Throughout the novel, he aimlessly wanders throughout New York City, encountering prostitutes, nuns, new faces, old faces, and also experiences “street scenes,” nightclubs, cheap hotels and many other people and places. He is sick and tired of the world and feels that everything and everyone are “phony” because he cannot understand the fact that people's personalities, identities, and…

Favorite Characters One of my favorite characters in the novel, A Separate Peace is Brinker Hadley. His character is more interesting then some of the others for me. I think it is amazing how he is responsible but irresponsible at the same time. In the Assembly Room where he does his public performance as Gene’s questioner he is dramatic, and aggressive while still being polite. For example, when he questions Leper he is straightforward and desperate for answers but at the same time he is…

In the fictional book, Looking for Alaska by John Green, John writes an adult novel of 221 pages speaking of a young boy who learns a lot about love, depression, regret, and adventure. This book was published by Penguins Young Reading Group in on August 14, 2008. It is a good book for teenagers ages 14-18. Miles Halter is regular boy who is tired of being predictable. He is very smart and his talent is memorizing last words of memorable people. He has little to no friends and he is always…

quote, “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme”, redacted from another quote by Mark Twain (O’Toole), could act as a summary for Margaret Atwood’s, The Handmaid’s Tale. In this novel, a dystopian society is implemented through the utilitarian control of a Biblical patriarchy. While certain analyses of this novel comment on the piece’s abstractness and point to the realities as to how this type of society could never exist, every detail in this book was created via something that has…

definitely disappointed. I spent nearly the whole book hoping for Mae to come to life and do what everyone said she could do: change the world. When the book ended I had given up on Mae, and the idea that she could or would change the world. The novel left me feeling deprived of the satisfaction of seeing Mae stand up for herself, and proper…

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…

Princeton High School vs. Devon School A school is defined as an institution dedicated the education of children. John Knowles’ coming-of-age novel, A Separate Peace, brought to life the characters Gene and Phineas. The two boys are attending a preparatory school located in New Hampshire at the time of World War II. Knowles’ fictional school set years ago is unlike public school in the modern age. Princeton High School is a public school located in Princeton, Minnesota. It is interesting to…

to North Orringtion for Stephen King’s job as a creative writing teacher. Nineteen seventy-three was a big year for the King’s moving back to Maine to aid Stephen’s fifty-nine year old mother in her last days, and having his first American horror novel accepted for publication by Double Day & Co. ( “King, Stephen” The Author). Years later in nineteen ninety-nine King suffered from a major accident outside his house in Maine, he suffered severe injuries from the accident, yet continued to write…

Looking For Alaska is an amazing young adult novel about a boy, Miles, going to the same boarding school his dad went to when he was younger. We see him grow up and meet new friends in this story, while learning more than he ever imagined. Looking For Alaska was chosen out of hundreds of books to be given the Michael L. Printz award. This award is given to books that are thought to be the best for young adults. Looking For Alaska deserved the Michael L. Printz award for the compelling themes it…