English-language novels

France. In Paris, he studied medicine but it was for short period and returned to Ireland. In 1904, he exiled Ireland to Pula in Croatia with his wife to work as an English teacher. After that, he went to Italy to settle in Trieste, where he taught English and learned Italian as well as 17 languages which he was speaking such as (English, Italian, French, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek,…

his readers to obtain rely enlightenment. Character is the soul of Bhagat’s novels. The plot i.e. story is the second important ingredient. Therefore character is prior to the plot. His characters are social rebels who remind us the Angry Youngman that dominated English novel in the 1950’s. His female protagonists remind us the female character of GB Shaw for their vitality natural female instinct. Place of action of his novel is set in the hustle and bustle of metropolitan Indian cities where…

American up bring and her chinese background. Most of Tan’s novel have one similar connection the importance of mother daughter relationship. The Joy Luck Club was made up into sixteen stories each about club members and American born daughters who immigrated from china. The mothers and daughters share stories of there lives about their families in china and the families that they have in the united states. Amy Tan theme of the novel focuses on mother daughter relationship in both…

Although English is not Nabokov’s first language, not even the second, he is known for his impeccable English prose. However, paradoxically, when Nabokov is asked whether he feels he has “any conspicuous or secret flaw as a writer,” he replies it is “the absence of a natural vocabulary” (S.O., 106). Specifically, he bemoans that his English is “stiffish, artificial thing, which may be all right for describing a sunset or an insect, but which cannot conceal poverty of syntax and paucity of…

passion for English began when I first started reading and found myself asking "What makes a great book?" or "What makes an author remarkable?”. It wasn't until I read Ian McEwan's 'Atonement' that I finally found answers. I loved the idea that a story was being told by an undisclosed narrator who was only revealed at the end of the book. It made me question whether everything I had just read was what actually happened or whether it was made up by the narrator. I loved the idea that a novel…

stimulated from Sandra Cisneros’s novel, “Carmelo.” “Narrative Coyotes: Migration and Narrative Voice in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo” by Heather Alumbaugh was published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) in the Spring of 2010. Melus, the journal, encompassing the multi-ethnic scope of American literature past and present and is organized for greater…

In regards to 1984… wait this book is The Handmaid’s Tale, same difference. The similarities between 1984, a dystopian novel written in 1944, and The Handmaid’s Tale, a alternative dystopian novel written in 1985, are clear cut. It seems that even the fact that The Handmaid’s Tale was written one year after George Orwell’s 1984 is a snarky remark to the bleak future George Orwell painted in his masterpiece. The similarities can only be described as if Margaret Atwood was referencing 1984 with…

Stylistic analysis of “The Old Man and the Sea” Plot construction The plot of the novel is very strong, well-knit and well-arranged although the novel is not separated into episodes. There is a convincing opening, middle and an end. Everything is brilliantly portrayed providing the whole lot required for the attentiveness of the reader. Hemingway’s iceberg method displays in the uncommon use of dialogue tags and a plot that does not expose ample about the characters or the setting. The actual…

The novel I will be talking about is Bel Canto. I will be talking about the book’s identity, the author, and the context of the work. A detailed summary of the novel will be reveal later on. I will also talk about my experience of reading the book and my emotions on it. There will also of recommendations of why people should read it and reasons. This review is for people who did not read the novel. But also will convince the readers to read the novel, Bel Canto. This is the book’s identity and…

In her novel, The God of Small Things, published in 1997, Arundhati Roy succeeds in creating an unorthodox narrative through her refashioning of the English language. Through the novel’s unexpected events, Roy presents the melancholy predicament of untouchables as well as the struggle of a woman in pursuit of romantic love in a patriarchal society. In this analysis, I will demonstrate how the reader reacts to Roy’s art of storytelling and how her unconventional style illuminates the novel’s…