Great American Novel

Girls Do for Beauty? In the fictional novel Eight Cousins, Louisa May Alcott effectively highlights the health and beauty issues that woman in the nineteenth century faced in relationship to gender roles, health education and dress reform which engages with medical discourse. This raises the question: to what degree do social roles and the definition of the “ideal” woman negatively affect young girls’ mental and physical health. Louisa May Alcott’s novel positively reinforces young girls’…

In the novel The Scarlet Letter and the play Chicago, there are many things throughout them that are similar, yet there are also many other things that make the two different. Some of the things that make the two alike is that both authors wrote about adultery, the authors are trying to show the readers that there are consequences to your actions, and that some of the characters share some of the same characteristics. Some of the things that make the two stories unique would be the setting, the…

Spindletop Oil Gusher The purpose of this report is twofold: to discuss the novel “The Murder of William Marsh Rice,” by Paul Spellman and to discuss the Spindletop Oil Gusher, one of the significant Texas history events that serves as the backdrop for the story. The book is a fascinating combination of fiction and history. Though the main character and others are fictitious, the events that happen around them—the Great Galveston Hurricane, the murder of William Marsh Rice, and the Spindletop…

media coverage of him is one example in a long line of contradictions. Additionally, Tillman was reserved and modest which made it even more difficult for others to exploit him. Despite the Department of Defense’s efforts to depict him as the perfect American hero, Tillman wanted to be more than that. Nearly everyone who interacted with him described him as a good listener and a deep intellectual thinker (Krakauer, 18). Additionally, he strayed from the military “norm” of throwing his rank…

“Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained to the greatest violence.”(Francis Jeffrey). In the novel by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, prejudice is a blanket of injustice that envelopes the town of Maycomb. To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated from the perspective of an innocent little girl, Scout Finch. Along with Scout, Scout’s brother, Jem Finch, learn how Maycomb, a small, old-fashioned town in Alabama, is flooded with cruelty. Their father, Atticus, is a well respected lawyer and…

explore the elements of feminism in Anita Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting. The paper seeks to study the work of Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting as a text of feminine writing and deals with number of problems that are faced by the women characters in the novel Lessons in Forgetting such as female feticide, gender discriminations, love and dependence on family members, and explains briefly how they overcome such problems to move on in their lives. As per the title, the lessons that were taught to women…

understand the important characteristics of American Naturalism works. Often times Naturalism and Realism are used interchangeably, but these two literary movements have distinct qualities, which can be closely understood through the two literary works of William Dean Howell’s Novel-Writing and Novel- Reading and Frank Norris’ Plea for Romantic Fiction. In his essay, Howell highlights the importance of realism literature, where truth should be the “prime test of a novel” and a novel’s writing…

In literature, there are many different themes that appear repeatedly in novels people read. These themes can be seen in many works of literature, no matter the genre or topic. One of the most recurring themes seen in books is a character’s loss of innocence. Loss of innocence happens when a character is exposed to situations they had never been exposed to before such as war, death and violence. These are all things that most children are naive to and have never experienced in their life.…

Dragonwings is an action filled novel, filled with mystery and suspense. Getting to know the characters is one of the best parts of the book. Laurence Yep created this novel hoping that young adults, and adults themselves would love this book because it is packed with hope and desire. The Land of the Demons. A young boy named Moon Shadow was apart of the Tang culture he lived in the Middle Kingdom, China. Moon Shadow was filled with wonder and action. He loved it when his grandmother would…

through unproductive TV show and radio programs. As Sam Weller suggests in his article “Ray Bradbury’s 180 on Fahrenheit 451” voicing Bradbury’ vision “Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury said, was a depiction of a society willfully dumbing itself down by staring at screens, stuffing its collective consciousness with useless factoids, empty ideas and throwaway reality”. Moreover, the various minority groups also contributed to the banning of books. As a very diverse society, America is filled with many…