English-language novels

few encounters in Anand's first novel, Untouchable reflects humanity. Now-a-days, we see a lot of ingratitude between parents and their children and how the sensitive relationships are becoming worse. In this connection, I feel, Bakha, a protagonist in Untouchable is really a modern Sravana Kumara. We can clearly notice Bakha's sensitive feelings towards his father, Lakha and his sister, Sohini. Though Lakha's abusing words cut Bakha's tender heart throughout the novel, Bakha does not say a…

Award-winning novel by Indian-Bengali writer Amitav Ghosh. He is no doubt one of the leaders of the global league, and no one would today dare categorise him as an ‘Indo-Anglian novelist’. We may say that Ghosh, in the tradition of Rushdie, is one of the key figures to have created that global league which every Indian writer would today aspire to join. In 1988, Amitav Ghosh published his second novel, titled as The Shadow Lines. Ghosh replaces the magic-realist features and incidents of his…

instinct and a boundless sympathy for her irrepressible characters, in Oleander Girl’’ Divakaruni brings us a perfect treat of a novel moving, wise, and memorable. As The Wall Street Journal raves, “Divakaruni emphasize the liberating force of storytelling with lavish prose. . . . She defies categorization.” An archetypal work of magical realism, this bestselling novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells the story of Tilo, a young woman from another time who has a gift for the…

technique, the wise mind, and fluid language made his works survive till nowadays. His novels serve as a valuable source of that period. He wrote more than twenty novels, and all of them are very appreciated and valued from book-lovers since the day they were written until these days and apparently there is a great chance that they will be appreciated in the same way in the future time. Oliver Twist is one of the first novels from Dickens's literary works. This novel was very successful since…

Innovative novels, much like significant events and notable people, are capable of providing inspiration for artists in their works of pop culture. One of these novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, has contributed ideas that have been replicated and referenced in many modern works of cultural art, ranging from dystopian television shows to songs. Many artists use these references to apply Orwell's arguments to modern events, holding testament to the truly innovative nature of Nineteen…

previous struggles had been fixed. For example, after travelling to Kahani, Haroun returns home to find that his once unhappy city finally got their happy ending. This novel shows that all stories are inherently connected; they all spring from other cultures. Rushdie attempts to reinvent the genre by incorporating both European and English storytelling traditions on equal playing fields. He shows how both are interdependent and intertwined (Teverson 161). The author shows that all cultures have…

Meanings, and Their Place in Novels The contrast between the usage of words and silence in these novels creates two separate ideas of how language works within a novel. As Woolf states in “Craftmanship,” “It is words that are to blame. They are the wildest, freest, most irresponsible, most unteachable of all things… But words do not live in dictionaries; they live in the mind” and that is why there is such a radically different approach to them in these two novels (Selected Essays, 89). Words…

Critical readers do this, because they hunger and yearn to find deeper meanings within texts. No Sugar a play written by Jack Davis in 1986 allows a creative reader to make these connections and observe patterns through recurring the themes of racism, language and cultural divide, the strength of family and also intertextual connections between the play and the 1905 ACT. Davis uses patterns to convey particular ideas, beliefs and historical…

J.D. Salinger includes vulgar language frequently throughout his novel. This is one complaint and issue that The Catcher in the Rye receives numerous amounts of times. Throughout the whole book, the main character, Holden, uses profanity quite often. For example, Holden uses language such as "damn", "crap", "ass", and "hell". These words are not entirely the most vulgar words, but Holden is very repetitive with them which makes them lose their meaning. The book also uses the work “f***”…

that Aunt Martha is one of the few people who can see through Tabitha’s ruse. This quote also helps to support the revelation of Tabitha’s secret double life later in the novel. It reveals that Tabitha has the ability to hide important things from people and fool them with her personality. A message that reoccurs throughout the novel is the idea that things aren’t as they first appear to be. This passage supports this…