First novel in English

At the beginning of the novel Jim lost his parents and was sent to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. When Jim met the Shimerdas Antonia caught his eye, he exclaimed to himself that she is pretty. Soon after Jim and Antonia met they became best friends, they would spend time together when they could. Jim started teaching Antonia English which helped them communicate better from when they first met and Antonia only knew a few English words. Jim and Antonia had different ideas on life which…

have faced many obstacles to have the reading capability I have today. From humble beginnings, I was muted and was unable to speak my native language Creole or English. Which resulted in some delays in reading development. Once my family and I arrived to the United States it was difficult to adapt to our new setting due to knowing English or us not speaking. During my school days, I had to take speech development to develop my phonetic awareness. I was far behind on my reading skills. It was…

stories about women’s struggles to find freedom in a country that sets rules against their own will driven by old cultural norms. Hend and the Soldiers is her first work that was recently translated by Sanna Dhahir, a Professor of English at Effat University in Saudi Arabia. Dhahir has translated several literary works from Arabic into English. She is also a woman activist who saw Albesher’s work groundbreaking that brings a rare woman’s voice in a patriarchal society and to the Anglophone…

always greener on the other side . . . sigh. Today I read about this novel, although I don’t think I should read it. The name of the novel is “Veronica decides to die.” For some reason, I totally understand how Veronika feels in the story. My understand on this novel is better than either Harry Potter or The Martian. I’ve stopped myself reading it at a certain point of the novel. Why would anyone waste their time reading a novel about suicide? Tomorrow, there will be new jobs on the…

When I first walked into room 110 of South Anchorage High School I had no idea what was in store for me. On the very first day of class Mr. Lee Butterfield informed us that this course would be extremely challenging and he had planned to push us all to our limits. He accomplished this, but in a way that was very rewarding in the end. Never in my life had I ever enjoyed or appreciated reading and writing. Little did I know this would be the year that would change everything. A few weeks into…

This year in English 10H has allowed me to hone and improve my reading and writing skills. With this class, I have been able to be challenged far more than I would have had I not chosen to stick with an honors class. My writing has improved leaps and bounds over the course of the year due to the large amount of papers we wrote that covered vastly different subject matters. The first paper we wrote to start off the year was a thesis essay based on an independent novel that we read over the summer…

changed the way they spoke when they were speaking to me and I got into the same trouble as my cousins and brother. My true first language was taught to me by my grandmother before I went to preschool. It was a coloured language that allowed my entire family to communicate with each other. I…

‘Such a Long Journey’ is a 1991 novel by Rohinton Mistry. The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won numerous other awards too. However, it came into the light when the book was withdrawn from the syllabus of the University of Mumbai's English Literature in 2010 after complaints from the family of the Hindu nationalist politician Bal Thackeray. In this light, a renowned writer Salman Rushdie points out that: The famous novel of Rohinton Mistry's 'Such a Long Journey' was withdrawn…

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…

Massachusetts. She has a Bachelor in English, a Master of Arts in English, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum. Originally, Reid was an English teacher at Nelson County Schools for two years before she went to be an English instructor at Virginia Highland Community College in Abingdon, Virginia. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Cynthia Voigt and has contributed articles to the ALAN review and other professional journals. Reid’s purpose for the book is to inform…