Great American Novel

animatedly exaggerate his face into whichever distinct feeling he was experiencing, Roger certainly is a significant character to the telling of The Scarlet Letter. In addition to his many oddities, Chillingworth is compared to the Devil all throughout the novel; witnessing the latter would not be difficult at all, for the man has earned himself nicknames such as “The Black Man” from several other characters in the story. Although Roger Chillingworth participates in evident evil-worthy…

While I initially searched for a poem or short story online, admittingly out of convenience, I did not find any works that piqued my interest. So, I went to the library and stumbled upon The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, a book compiled by Lex Williford and Michael Martone, which is comprised of a collection of fifty short stories since the 1970’s. While the cover is nothing too impressive, I noticed that out of the fifty total works, only approximately three or four…

John Steinbeck conveys this idea through his characters George and Lennie and their pursuit towards the American dream. “And it’d be our own, an’ nobody could can us. If we don’t like a guy we can say, ‘Get the hell out,’ and by god he’s got to do it. An’ of a fren’ some along, why we’d have an extra bunk, an’ we’d say, ‘Why don’t you spen’ the night?’ An’…

ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT  AUTHOR: JHUMPA LAHIRI  BY: SANYAM JAIN  BBA.MBA 2014  TO: PROF. JAGDISH BATRA ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jhumpa lahiri is an Indian American author and won 2000 Pulitzer prize for fiction. Her first novel the namesake is included in the same and got many awards for it. The story namesake tells us about culture and living sense of two country as the character gogol brought up in another country. It show the difference of mentality. CHARACTERS: Before the summary we should be…

anything from written work to scientific work but the word is most commonly used to define the works of an inventive imagination which include poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. Attires we may be faced with questions when we read classical novels and pieces that seem really old. The most common question readers may ask themselves today is ‘what sense does literature make in the contemporary world? ‘The answer is simple; Literature cannot be inexistent. Literature is what defines a culture…

nor welcomed feeling, as Edna actually feels ill. These desires are something that solely men are expected to feel, in consequence she has little idea what they are and how to control them. However, soon these feelings deepen, and by the end of the novel she engages in two extramarital affairs. Adultery in no context should be condoned, however, to Edna her marriage is a constriction. Her own home is to her like “..some…

blue sky, a warm sun, and relaxation ‘’ carries a thought of the speaker and allows the interlocutor to consider and develop the idea of a nice day. [2] The Lottery is a short story written in late 1940s by Shirley Jackson, an American author widely well known for her novels, ghost stories and horror tales. Probably her best work, the Lottery, the story takes place on an small town populated by around 300 people. The villagers of this small town gather on 27 Jun of every year and plays a…

objects in relation to Christianity continue to emerge in direct opposition to the interests of Sanjeev, the male counterpart and husband of the story. Though he has no interest in these objects, it appears that his wife, Twinkle, takes a sort of novel interest in them while Sanjeev seems to be oblivious to their charms. “We should call the realtor. Tell him theirs all this nonsense left behind. Tell him to take it away,” Sanjeev had said after deciding the objects were silly as he examined them…

1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, is an internationally acclaimed Indian writer who wrote in Bengali.One of the distinctive as well as recurrent aspects of his fiction is his skilful handling of bold,freedom-seeking women characters.In many of his novels and short stories he takes care to show his women adopting unconventional stand to give vent to their feminine voice in a traditional Hindu society,which can undoubtedly be referred to, in Tennyson’s words, as a “Man to command and woman to…

influenced to the other authors, such as A. A. Milne and P. G. Wodehouse. Saki was Munro’s pen name and inspiration of his pen name came from the boyish cupbearer in “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” by Edward FitzGerald. However, Saki may refer to a South American monkey name. Hector Hugh Munro wrote a lot of short stories, some of them, he published by book and some of them he published by newspapers. Besides, also he wrote a full-length play, “The Watched Pot”, he collaborated with Charles…