English-language novels

portrayed by Forster through the friendship between Aziz and Mr. Fielding, the English schoolmaster. Subsequently, Forster had the limited experience of both sides, keeping up a multifaceted relationship and getting from this completely a new information and feelings. In view of this story the reader is rapidly capable to sympathize with the ruled race, extremely and impolitely treated by the English powers. In this novel, the reader…

present day. The writing style of the novel aids the readers in filling in the gaps by jumping in and out of the past and present. These out of order events or flashbacks, together with the help of the narrator who provides the readers with an insight into the character’s perspectives as well as some unknown information, moves the narration forward and enables the readers to bridge the gap. Furthermore,…

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s novel, Dictée, may seem simple on the surface, but it is complex and enriching if read with a critical and mindful eye. Each segment is separated into different sections that are based on the nine Greek muses and tales centered on the themes of the muses based on the themes of suffering. From this sentence alone, it may become apparent to some that it has some elements that are similar to those classic epic tales, such as Homer’s Odyssey, which has been called a…

The jury requires more than one viewpoint to come to any legitimate verdict. A similar approach was taken in the creation of this novel. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a winding novel written using eight different perspectives of mothers and daughters. Tan describes the lives of Chinese daughters and mothers who moved to America. This shift of Chinese to American hides no secrets from the reader because the words of any character can be supported by three others. The use of multiple…

Frontier” is that it doesn't focus on just the European view of early exploration and colonization of the Americas. It is well balanced with tales of deceit, betrayal and savagery from not just the Europeans but the Native Americans as well. As a history novel an author's approach can be rather stiff, as they tend to give the reader a burden of facts throughout. Although true, Weidensaul manages to piece together a rather impressive number of true stories, which came from either first or second…

Bapsi Sidhwa is a Pakistani well-acclaimed diasporic writer. The novels she has written in English reveal her individual understanding of the Indian subcontinent’s Partition, socio-political aspects, abuse against women, immigration to the US, and membership in the Parsi or Zoroastrian community. Born on August 11, 1938 in Karachi in the country of Pakistan, she subsequently migrated to Lahore. Bapsi Sidhwa saw with her own eyes the blood-spattered Partition of India when she was a young girl in…

Contents Introduction Course length Approach and Methodology Syllabus Unit structure and organization Spelling differences between American and British English Unit 1 Reporters write stories from the present, writers write novels from the past! Lesson 1 Getting involved Lesson 2 Amazing people Lesson 3 Amazing stories Lesson 4 Classic Tales Unit 2 The power of words and the influence of opinions! Lesson 1 The power of words Lesson 2 If it sounds like writing, rewrite it!…

makes the story seem real. The whole account is about a domestic life of Wiltshire with his wife Uma and how they deal with language, culture and color barrier. The first person narrative has been used in between the story that kept the readers stuck to the novella, maintained their interest throughout. It also represented the relationship between home and abroad where white English men goes abroad makes new homes and creates new mixed way of life and adopts new cultures. The best example of…

considered a milestone in Indian-English fiction, its form showing a successful orchestration of Indian and Western methods. The Cat and the Shakespeare, a metaphysical comedy, is an exemplar of theoretical fiction. The Chessmaster and His Moves are characterized by a range of momentous symbols. Here ‘The Chessmaster’ himself and his ‘moves’ are what he makes man do. Raja Rao’s place in the empire of Indian English fiction is safe as the most Indian of novelists in English, as stylist,…

I love language because it carries beauty and thought. While the study of languages seems monotonous and meticulous to many people, to me it is an unfathomable ocean of fun. My initiation of English study originated from my obsession to literary aestheticism. It was a step-by-step aesthetic pilgrimage to the glorious palace of western literature when I started from ABC on, then read simple passages, later moved onto the beautiful essays and poetry and at last plunged into the classics by…