Great American Novel

5.1.1Gatsby vs. Tom The main conflict or the climax of the novel is the gathering of Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan in hotel Plaza in New York City, and eliciting all the truth that has…

this book examining the impact British colonialism in the post-colonial era had on Antigua. Kincaid offers a unique viewpoint as a local who was born there, using her individual examples to create an authentic dialogue. Yet Kincaid chose to write the novel in second person employing the perspective of a tourist, to show how tourist can appreciate the beauty of the island but be completely ignorant to their social and political conditions that the tourism industry reinforces. Some misconstrue…

The novel set in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan, is about one anxious morning in the life of three Pakistani brothers and two of the women they love. This land is also home to a three – dimensional chess board of seemingly endless war – American drones killing the Taliban; Sunni Muslims bombing Shia Muslims; and an underground, generations old fight for independence from the central government. The “Stupidity” from Nabokov’s quote is bespoken in novel by radicalized Sunni…

pioneered for social reform, Animal Farm provided a strong cultural criticism, The Great Gatsby showed the flaw in the American Dream, and To Kill a Mockingbird describes the trials and tribulations of growing up. Stories like this form an elite society of literature that spoke of the unspeakable and pushed forward a new mindset that many had overlooked. Among these ranks falls The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; a novel that follows the various picaresque adventures of Huck Finn and the runaway…

betrayed the country and have a great life in the place the you work on or still doing your job and make your country proud of you. That is a life of a spy, an intelligent person that serve for the country in silence to get the very important for their country to win the battle. Thanks for the spy novel that brought us the sight of the spy life. Especially during cold war, the rising of the…

struggles in life and knowledge about a subject to help them write their novels. One of these authors, Khaled Hosseini, a unique and acclaimed writer, is known for his writings relating to his background. His family and friends that are in his life and his previous life experiences in both Afghanistan and America inspired Hosseini to write his novels. For example, Hosseini used his father as the setup for the character Baba in the novel, The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini Critical). Khaled…

The purpose of this paper is to flash- light the social realities reflected in the novels of Anita Desai and Kiran Desai. Anita Desai was the one novelist who concentrates more on the exploration of modern Indian sensibility. She observes the realities from a psychological perspective. Anita Desai is in many ways a representatives of Indian woman novelist in English. Her contribution to fiction in independent India is more significant than the other women novelists such as Ruth Prawer, Nayantara…

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer of twenty-seven books, including sixteen books. six variable books, and five short stories. He is broadly known for comic books, “Tortilla Flat” and “Cannery Row”. Also known for the novels, “Red Pony”, “Of Mice and Men”, and “The Grapes of Wrath”. The vast majority of Steinbeck's work is set in southern and focal California, especially in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges. His work much of the time investigated the subjects of…

father’s sudden death, Kate was raised by her mother and grandmother who moved the family and raised them with their French-Creole background. Kate’s mothered never remarried and Kate would eventually be enthralled by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother storytelling. Kate mother later died in 1885. Kate attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart. The Civil War caused Kate to be in and out of school, being…

The novel “In the Heat of the Night” by John Ball is written in great depth and supports most plots with a thought provoking ideas. It is a crime and mystery novel that is set back in the 1950’s. The setting of this book is in North Carolina’s city called Wells. In this novel, the story follows a black police officer who is trying to solve a crime in a town where most of the population is composed of Caucasians. This caucasian majority community is shown as racist towards African American…