First novel in English

to express the time period before to modern day, marking this book as a classic novel. Repetition and accents emphasizing old times (Language): A) “Listen to the motor. Listen to the wheels. Listen with your ears …Listen to the pounding old jalopy with all your senses,” Steinbeck, 85. The Repetition and the word choice creates a sense in the readers mind to listen carefully and the word “Jalopy” used when the first car was invented, depicting that the time period is long before modern…

Finally, the boys supposedly leave the island towards the end of the novel just as Adam and Eve have to leave the Garden of Eden (Spitz 28). In Genesis 3, after “the eyes of both of them were opened”, Adam and Eve “realized they were naked” and hide in shame from God (New International Version, Genesis 3:7-8). Subsequently, God discovers Adam and Eve, “banished them from the Garden of Eden” for their sin, and pessimistically ends the story of the Fall with a death sentence for humans: “for dust…

Even in the beginning of the book Achebe writes that Okonkwo was "the first to bring back a human head" (7) and it is written as something to brag about . This shows that some of the stereotypes are correct about the violent nature of the tribes. Although much of the story does center around violence, Achebe subtly shows that…

Abstract The paper makes a postcolonial feminist reading of Jean Rhys’s novel, Wide Sargasso Sea which is a subversion of Charlotte Bronte’s celebrated novel,Jane Eyre.It tries to show how in the novel, Rhys lends voice to Antoinette Cosway, the most silenced character in Jane Eyre and how she foregrounds the importance of creolized gendered subject within the hierarchy of European patriarchy. The paper unravels the way in which the sense of unbelongingness and gendered discrimination…

Christianity. His parents then named him Albert, after Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Chinua attended the Church Missionary Society’s school where the primary language for the first two years was Igbo. He started learning English around age eight. Learning English at a later age brought out great…

Nothing but Quiet Preston Frisch Ms.Bell English 9 10 May 2018 In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, we see the positive and negative qualities of Heather, Rachel, and Melinda.The qualities of each person affects them each personally. The first quality of Melinda “It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”(Melinda,…

When I started this year off I had no idea how hard the curriculum actually was for an English class at the college level. This made my under-preparedness show in much of my early works and my understanding of upper level novels. Once into the class, I could see myself actually growing as a student in all aspects of school not just this class. Although my journey through this class has not been the easiest I have found the benefits of this higher level of thinking which allows for much brighter…

Brian Simpson English IV 29 November, 2016 Mrs. Schroeder Frankenstein as a gothic novel Gothic literature was a literary movement from the late 18th to late 19th centuries that was a part of the Romantic movement that took place in Europe. It combined many literary themes such as nature, psychology, emotions, and the supernatural. The subject matter of gothic literature is usually very dark with tones of darkness or horror. Ruin, terror, sadness, horror, the occult, and the supernatural…

English author Rudyard Kipling once said, “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Graham Swift manifests the authenticity of this notion in his fictional autobiography, Waterland. Published in 1968, Waterland focuses on both the enigmatic complexity of history and the traditional practice of storytelling. By connecting these seemingly contrasting renditions of the past, the protagonist of the novel, history teacher Tom Crick, details the local history of…

rapid changes, marked by a great expansion of power and culture. Throughout this century, territorial expansion spread in parts of India, Africa, in the Middle East and in Asia. This process brought not only colonial presence but the increased use of English language outside of Europe, trading, cultural integration, advances in medicine, and technology. Established as the birth of modern times, as it is still considered, the Victorian era in Britain was an age that began with optimism leading to…