First novel in English

speak in the English can survive anywhere in the entire American continent and my life itself is another good example about how successful a person can be if he is a literate. It is my father who always wanted me to study in an English medium school and finally admitted me in a school named St. Josephs High school which is an English medium and very famous…

worrisome is not that we have all learned to think in English, but that our education devalues our cultures, that we are not taught to write Igbo and that middle-class parents don’t much care that their children do not speak their native language or have a sense of their history.” [ Nigel – do I a) have to reference this quote (I did refrence it at the end) and b) indent it? ] Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie is a compelling novel about life during the Biafran War. Set in Nigeria, it…

challenged. For one thing, the novel is characterized by its monologic, rather than dialogical, aspects. As a whole, the text is composed of speaker-oriented speeches by Tambu who speaks to the reader not only about herself but also about the other characters.…

The Transition from an English Schoolboy In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys is involved in a plane crash that strands them on a South Pacific island with no adults around. The boys have to fend for themselves to survive. Throughout the novel the character Jack evolves from a very prestigious English school boy into a savage who becomes obsessed with hunting. Jack becomes an animal on the island, drifting away from the traditional English ways that were taught to…

In English 109H, I was expecting to read arduous novels and evaluate them each week. However, this class was structured on helping the students become more efficient writers and discovering true potential. This class gave various tools, such as peer review, teacher meetings, and in class discussions to aid the student to exceed their previous writing for every major assignment. Through scrutinizing the text, analyzing sources, and making effective arguments I have become exceeded my previous…

literature” (Alam, 102). He grew up in a time when Africans first began to challenge the power of the European colonists and their intrusion into African life (Sadeghi, 49), which is reflected in his first novel Things Fall Apart. A recurring theme in Achebe’s works is the representation of native African cultures and values before, during and after the colonial era. According to Achebe, “African peoples did not hear of culture for the first time from Europeans. […] They had poetry and, above…

Much Ado About Standardized Literature In the world of modern day education, school boards across the nation often refer to lists of “standard literature” when assigning reading materials to students. Among these novels are the classics: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, just to name a few. But what are students truly gaining from reading these well-known works? What are the school boards across America hoping to teach…

James Joyce During the late 1800s, a scholar was born unto the union of an Irish decedent in Dublin, Ireland. He was born with a minor eye problem and dealt with it all his life and that become chronic throughout his life. Being the first child of his parent and oldest Mr. Joyce was a smart young man growing up as a child, he show the interest of education as a little boy as a result his parent saw how determine he was toward learning. The parent of Joyce saw unusual behavior in him that…

perhaps the most genuine account ever written about life in Nigeria in the twentieth century. Despite the fact that the novel was initially published in 1958, many copies are still sold today. An enormous number of copies have been produced and sold worldwide. The novel has been adjusted for preparations on the stage, on the radio, and on TV. Instructors at every level utilize the novel as reading material in numerous sorts of classes, from history and social studies to writing and human…

Real People is a series of novels by Robert J. Conley the American author best known for his works based on the history, tradition, folk lore, and experience of the Cherokee nation. The first novel of the Real People series was The Way of the Priests that Conley first published in 1992. Robert was born in Cushing Oklahoma in 1940 where he lived for most of his childhood. A proud Cherokee, he was a lifelong member of the federally recognized tribe of Native Americans called the Keetoowah Band of…