English-language novels

English Essay: Text Analysis – The Messenger by Markus Zusak Question – What techniques does Markus Zusak use to engage his readers? Markus Zusak is an Australian author from Sydney who is currently 39 years of age. He has written quite an array of narratives, including the renowned “The Book Thief” and more relevant to this text analysis “The Messenger” which is written in the perspective of the protagonist, Ed Kennedy who describes and makes comments on the storyline throughout the novel.…

The Dark Room is novel written by an Indian author, R.K.Narayan from Madras, India, whom is known as the English language novelist. This novel was very well known during 20th century because the first novel that shows the social life faced by the women during this era. This novel is portrays the life of a married Indian woman, being discriminated by her husband and being betrayed although she was loyal towards her married life. The protagonist of this novel is Savitri, who is a typical,…

Markandaya occupies a prominent place among Indian English novelists. She won international fame and recognition with a publication offer very first novel, Nectar in a sieve in 1954. When she started writing novels, the themes hunger and degradation, human relationships, east – west encounter had already been dealt with by a number of Indian/English novelists. But Kamala Markandaya provides variety and vividness to these themes. In her all the novels these themes are reflected in the life in…

foreignization strategy because it is so difficult to translate all the names and transfer all the cultural references into Spanish. Besides, the full story occurs in America and the cities mentioned are known around the world. I would like to translate into English El asesinato de la profesora de lengua. It is a young literature book written by Jordi Sierra i Fabra. I would like to translate it because it has many word games and they are very funny to…

American myth the ideal of self-perfection. The novels recall in contrast the world of Jane Austen's fiction, in which self-perfection is treated ironically. –Kelly A. Marsh, Contextualizing Bridget Jones, West Chester University, 2004 After reading both Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austin and Bridget Jones’ Diary (1993) by Helen Fielding, I was able to find that the cultural issue of self-perfection was present in both novels. Though the two novels were…

Name of student: Ahmed Joudar Department of Comparative literature Second semester: Research plan Spring 2017: (1st report) Supervisors: Prof. Kürtösi Katalin & Prof. Fogarasi György Title: A critical study: How Edward Said explicated the predicament of Exile through the works of 20th century novelists. The Twentieth century can be considered as a highway in which…

Furthermore, the book I can compare reveal some of my values and beliefs about literacy in my life by connection to the story Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the novel of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, is an intelligent woman who is passionate about her beliefs without wanting the opinion of individuals in her society, specifically rich men who were too proud for their own good. I can connect myself with Elizabeth because I consider myself an independent woman who…

The Girl Who Won For most kids, growing up is pretty tough. For Julia Alvarez, it was even harder. The twisted paths of adolescence became blurred and incredibly confusing to Alvarez after she was, along with her family, forced to leave her native Dominican Republic for the strange United States. This culture shock was difficult to digest at the beginning, but then Alvarez became fueled by the bullies who taunted her accent and the missing pieces that being a “Dominican hyphen American” left in…

group in the book 1984. The book was written by George Orwell, and published in 1949. The task refers to part 4, the studied literature part of the English Language and Literature course - Power and Privilege - and comprises of the various cultural, social and historical contexts belonging to the novel. While playing a relatively minor role in the novel, the proletarians (Proles) constitute the vast majority of the population of Oceania. The main focus of the book is what happens inside the…

William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is the story of a group of English schoolboys who crash-land on a deserted island and have to survive until they are rescued, without the structure and convenience of modern society. There are many characters who take prominent role in this story. Piggy, a fat glasses wearing kid whom has asthma is the helping, more feminine boy. Ralph, a tall, somewhat carefree person is the leader. And Jack is a tall, long, bony kid, that’s the hunter. Although, all of…