Great American Novel

Unbroken is a novel written in 2010 about WWll by Hillenbrand focused around the American Olympic star Zamperini. The purpose of Unbroken is to inform in an engaging way the experience of an American soldiers at the time of WWll in the Pacific. The book also describe the POW camps and share Zamperini’s story. The purpose of Unbroken is to provide a story of one POW, Zamperini, during World War II. A value is that Hillenbrand is a published author who had written a previous novel on WWll. She…

Jorge Iscaas wrote the Latin American Maria between the years of 1864 and 1867, which would have been during the 19th century Colombia. Furthermore, this novel is considered to be one of the most important pieces of Spanish American literature due to its use of representative features of every day life, thus creating the literary term of costumbrist novel. A novel, which Jeanee Smoot, defines the as; “…recurrent glorification of the people of the provinces, seen in virtually all the writers of…

The famous novel, Oryx and Crake which was written by Margaret Atwood was published in 2003 and acclaimed a great success among the critics and general readers. The novel was first published in 2003 by Mcclelland and Stewart. In the same year, the book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the next year for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. This novel is the first part of MaddAddam Trilogy. Though some classify the novel as science fiction, Atwood claims that this novel can be called as…

Push, is a novel written by Sapphire. Push was published by Alfred A. Knopf and the copy right date is 1996. Part Two Ramona Loften aka Sapphire is an American author and poet. She earned a bachelor’s degree of art at the City College of New York and her Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College. Sapphire had a difficult childhood. Her father molested at the age of eight and her mother abandoned the family five years later. In her teenage years, she dropped out of high school. Her childhood…

November 29,1832 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA. Louisa then had died on March 6,1888 in Boston MA. Louisa has three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Anna Alcott Pratt, and Elizabeth Sewall Alcott. Louisa was an american novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women in 1868, and its sequels Little Men in 1871, and Jo's Boys in 1886. Louisa was raised by transcendantalist parents Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England. Her family suffered severe financial…

knowledge, Mort discussed the severity of the debts caused by the Civil War, as well as the United States government’s response, and the reasoning behind the lust for gold in the West. Mort then delved into the ethnocentrism of both Sioux culture and American culture, and the effects of the Fetterman battle. Mort then described the Seventh Cavalry, the Yellowstone expedition and following battles, and the economic crash of 1873. Custer’s preparation for the Black Hills expedition was then…

The Red Badge of Courage is about a young man, Henry Fleming, that joins the military with grand ideas of becoming a hero. As the novel opens, Henry's understanding of courage is romantic. He thinks of himself as a Greek warrior from ancient times. His understanding of courage has more to do with praise from his family and peers than any actual acts of bravery. His mother objects to him enlisting, but tells him that if he must go then he must be…

Source 1 What’s in a Name? it states in paragraph 4 that “Rowling became so famous that she later turned to another pen name, Robert Galbraith, in order to write detective novels. For Rowling, a new pen name meant a fresh start and a chance to explore a new genre without the pressure of her Harry Potter fame.” This is a great example of when authors want to use another pen name to produce new content by going into another genre of writing. However, female authors would specifically use pen names…

It would seem that both Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby, despite being written at different times for different audiences, portray women as the downfall of men. However, when looking closer at the two novels it is debatable whether the female characters are the sole reason for the male’s downfall. Brontë is writing in Victorian England, setting her novel on wild and bleak moors, which is extremely different to Fitzgerald’s American novel written in 1925 and set in the summer of 1922 on…

To Kill a Mockingbird begins as a sweet childhood snapshot of hazy summer days in the South. However, its simple perspective quickly morphs to accommodate profound meaning as its sugar gains a hard, bitter edge. The novel takes place in the small, laid back town of Maycomb, Alabama where conservatism reigns. The protagonist, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, grows up in a society where racial and gender roles determine the rules of daily life, and as she experiences events which lead her to question…