Great American Novel

The noble women in GWTW "It’s always annoying to the godly when the ungodly flourish like the green bay tree" (Mitchell 1180) In the novel, Mitchell shapes a variety of different characters. There are types like Scarlett O’Hara or Rhett Butler who stand out because of their strong will to fight after their life has been changed by their environment, whether it is being disowned and thrown out of the family like Rhett, or war and other strong deprivations in life. Alongside the strong…

eras society was patriarchal per se. The flourishing of feminine studies is a reaction to that sort of the patriarchy of Man. Novel is the best literary genre to tackle with the imbibed controversial issues like Masculinity and Femininity. The vast literary space of novel as literary genre helps writers to tackle with these controversial issues. The scope of imagination in novel is another factor helping writers to present society…

The novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, presents a striking perspective on the dystopia facing humanity. Through Golding’s extensive use of characterization and symbolism, he reveals the effect that human instinct and society has on an individual’s actions. This concept exists beyond fictive works and is present in the real world as well, in the past but more so within the present. Being a member of the navy during the World War II period, Golding was able to witness many of the…

The Things They Carried is a fictional account of the nature of men during the Vietnam War. The power of the novel comes from the blurring of the line between fiction and non-fiction. O’Brien used his actual memoir as a Vietnam soldier with a collection of what appears to be fictional short stories that he attributed to the members of his platoon. This style of writing shows that sometimes a person 's subjective thoughts and feelings about an event, which O 'Brien calls story-truth, is more…

Words and How They are Used How you say something matters just as much as what you say. Great ideas are more successful when they are shared in an appealing manner. Doerr’s book has both incredible ideas and a wonderful method of sharing them. In All the Light We Cannot See, Doerr uses multiple literary elements to develop the story in a way that catches readers, and reels them in until they cannot help but continue reading. Of these literary elements, character focus, language, and…

Forrest Ackerman, a renown Science Fiction specialist, was born on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles. His grandpa and grandma, George and Bell Herbert, made a huge impact on Ackerman’s interests in monsters and aliens. As a child, his grandmother influenced him by reading ghost stories while his grandpa drew pictures of monsters and aliens and brought him to as many as seven movies a day. His eccentric imagination of extraterrestrials encouraged and sparked his career as a Science Fiction…

which, an African American man is accused of raping a white girl. Atticus, the father of the young narrator, defends this man, Tom Robinson, the trial proves to be dangerous for himself and his children. Throughout the book and the trial Lee shows four major themes, one of those themes being innocence. Harper Lee effectively develops the theme of innocence through three major characters. Atticus F. Tom R., and Heck T.. The first occurrence of the theme, innocence, in the novel is during…

Stephen King is a widely acclaimed author in not just American culture, but around the world. He is commended for his significant contributions to the horror novel genre and the various movies and TV shows that have resulted from his books. In his book, On Writing, King outlines some his theories about why he was able to achieve the success he has. In the essay “On Stephen King,” author Gary Hoppenstand also presents his ideas as to why King has been so successful in his writing career. However…

Novelist and Journalist Philip Caputo, has written fifteen books, including two memoirs, five books of general nonfiction and eight novels. A Rumor of War, has been published in fifteen languages, has sold two million copies since its publication in 1977 and is widely regarded as a classic in the literature of war. Philip Caputo has won ten journalistic and literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, Overseas Press Club Award, Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, Connecticut Book Award and many…

That is not new in the West, the idea of escaping to the wilderness can be traced back to James Fenimore Cooper’s The Leatherstocking Tales novels (1827-1841). The freedom is the new myth to follow in the West, it is the ultimate reason in movies such as Easy Rider or Vanishing Point. Hopper (as John Ford) tries to recreate the magnificence of the western landscape, Easy Rider expands the cinema…