First novel in English

George Orwell 1984 George Orwell, in the novel 1984 present a terrible philosophy about the future. The read becomes one entirely convincing as his narration becomes timely as ever. With a startling vision of the world, it holds a convincing tone from the very first to the last part. Everyone in the novel is incomplete despotism and under control and repress of the ‘Big Brother’ and the party. it represents hierarchical system of both parties. it sparks to the very imaginative mind of modern…

Nepalese kids to put creativity in the shadows. However, moving to a country with such a rich literary past changed the story completely. Literature at first seemed foreign but once I started devouring books, it just became natural. For me literature bridged the gap between English and logic. ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole’ by Sue Townsend, was the first book I ever read. It taught me about how literature can be painfully hilarious but also a scathing social commentary; which highlights the…

and I can speak fluently english, and bengali etc. However, our society mostly holds up spaces for literacy as reading and writing only. The biggest hurdle that I have encountered in my ability to write are my learning disabilities. All these years of my life, this hurdle caused frustration. I never understood how and why I could not even sit down to write a paper or jot down ideas when my classmates or my cousins were doing their essays in the span of a couple hours. English is my ultimate…

The entire point of writing a realistic novel was to prove that reality can be just as interesting as fantasy, and fantasy can often take away from reality. Life is not like novels of terror, because unlike novels of terror, life is unpredictable and unorderly. Life can be far richer than fiction, even when simple. We see this through the way Catherine and Henry met. In no way was Catherine and Henry’s meeting romantic, but it was feasible, authentic, and satisfying to both parties. Yes,…

In the novels, Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf and, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe both authors push their characters into committing horrendous actions that are shunned by the English people and the indigenous Umuofia people. The suicides represent Septimus and Okonkwo's desperate attempts to free themselves from the pressures of their believed failed societies. Woolf uses Septimus traumatic experience as a soldier in WWI as a means to show that at a societal level, the British failed…

Kiran Desai is a distinguished Indian women novelist in English during the present century. She is a daughter of Anita Desai who is one of the most prominent Indian women novelists in English. Kiran Desai has written two novels namely Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and Inheritance of loss and won the covetous ‘Booker Prize’ for her second novel in 2006. However her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is as remarkable her ‘Booker Prize’ novel. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard deals with…

professions he has held over the years, he has lived on two continents and several countries and speaks Spanish and English. Given his many occupations and wanderlust he is best described as unemployable though he loves to describe himself as a novelist. Archer Mayor is best known for writing the Joe Gunther novels which he has been actively publishing since 1988. The debut novel was Open Season which was so popular that it has been…

immigrants. Even though Rosa could not speak English, she can get the job by having other immigrants as her ‘sponsor.’ As illustrated in this film, immigrants tend to reside in a certain area. Flor Moreno (Spanglish) feels at home, once she arrived at the neighborhood where her sister lives in California. In the Book of Unknown Americans, one of the narrators briefly inform the readers how people reside according to what ethnicity they belong to. Regarding English as one of the abstract borders…

Modern Age in English Literature started from the beginning of the twentieth century, and it followed the Victorian Age. Modernism refers to cultural movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It was about reforming movements in art, architecture, literature, music and applied arts. While the term postmodern literature is used to describe certain characteristics of post World War II literature. Postmodern literature…

Innovative novels, much like significant events and notable people, are capable of providing inspiration for artists in their works of pop culture. One of these novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, has contributed ideas that have been replicated and referenced in many modern works of cultural art, ranging from dystopian television shows to songs. Many artists use these references to apply Orwell's arguments to modern events, holding testament to the truly innovative nature of Nineteen…