Ellen Hopkins wrote the novel Crank from her experiences around her own daughters crystal meth addiction. Hopkins is a novelist, most of her published work has been New York Times best selling novels. Crank is part of a trilogy that consists of Crank, Glass, and Fallout. Among other books that Hopkins has written that share the same tone and style are Impulse, Burned, Identical, Tricks, Traffick, Perfect, Tilt, and Smoke. Hopkins is a very accomplished author who has won many awards for her work…
Deshpande implores women to discover themselves. Madhu writes the biography Savitribai Indorekar, Doyen of Hindustani music but Madhu doesn’t like writing the biography because she understands that it is not the original order of the story. She thinks that it is she who has the power to make changes in her story. She says, “I can take over Bai’s life ….and make Bai the rebel who rejected the conventions of her times. The feminist who lived her life on her terms. The great artist who struggled…
“Internalization in The Female Quixote and David Copperfield” The Female Quixote, or The Adventures of Arabella, by Charlotte Lennox, and David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, are both early forms of the novel. Though written approximately 100 years apart the two novels are both influential in their respective periods of authorship. Arabella, as the novel will be referred to henceforth, is influential because of its examination of the novel as a newer form and its parody of the former…
How does the writer make the ending so dramatically effective? - The plight of Madame Loisel (How does she perceive her life to be? Draw upon examples here!) (What does her life become? Why is this ironic?) - The relationship between Madame + Monsieur (Why does he seem so pleased with himself for the Party invitation?) (He uses all his money not just to help buy her an outfit but also to buy a real diamond necklace) (Why is he so content in life?) - Symbolism of the necklace (How…
Perhaps one of the most emotionally appealing themes a writer can utilize is that of the social outcast endeavoring to find its place in the world, a theme utilized to great effect by both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre despite their character’s different fates, the former featuring a supposedly monstrous creation who is ultimately rejected wholly by society and the latter an orphan child who is eventually able to carve an admittedly precarious foothold as a…
In the Victorian period men and women’s roles sharpened and became better defined. Gender relationships and stereotypes characterize a society which sees eccessive hypocrisy and social expectations. Oscar Wilde, in “The Importance of Being Earnest”, makes use of a simple and spontaneous writing style, associated with a refined and prone approach in the depiction of reality. In his play, Wilde continuously uses aphorisms and paradoxes to invite the reader to reflect upon the drastic change in…
education and marriage. Women’s rights were a disputatious topic during the eighteenth century and Austen certainly concerned herself therefore, Feminism, is a belief that women should be treated as potential intellectual and social equals regardless of gender. Jane Austen, holds substantial feminist views and uses the novel to express her opinions about the issues faced by women during her time. However, Austen, through…
“Why are you looking at me like that?” “Because you’re beautiful.” This is the part of the book when the main characters, Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster meet for the first time. This is also the start of the plot line. The book is a story about how two strangers fall in love and go places that some people could only dream about. However, they both share something in common. They have cancer. One of the amazing adventures that these characters go on is a trip to Amsterdam. In John…
Judge Wilhelmina Carson is the lead character of the Judge Wilhelmina Carson series otherwise known as the Justice series of novels by American author Diana Capri. The first novel of the series was the title Due Justice that was first published in 2011. Diana Capri the author of was born and raised in a small American German small town just north of Alabama where she spent much of her childhood reading books. She attended the Wayne Law School before she went on to become Wayne Law Review editor.…
Narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is considered as a seminal American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives, and this story happened during the Philips war from 1675 to 1678. The author of the book, Mary Rowlandson successfully described her spiritual journeys and redemption during she was captured by using symbolism and allusions. From my point of view, she had done a great job on literary elements. The first edition of the book comes out in 1682. In her work, Mary…