Great American Novel

10 MASTERS DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-03) THE BRITISH NOVEL ASSIGNMENT (BASED ON BLOCKS 1-9) Maximum Marks: 100 Programme : MEG-03 Section I is compulsory. Attempt four questions from section 11. You must attempt -five q uestions in all. All questions carry equal marks. Section I 1. In what ways can we look at fiction as history? Give suitable examples. 20 Section I1 How does Fielding's social consciousness affect his point of view in 'Tom Jones'? 20 Discuss the use of humour in 'Pride…

Does one dare to explore mysterious/wondrous short stories? Dan Chaon has an approach to the craft of writing that is both unique and different. Among the missing is a collection of short stories about everyday people, most of whom are somehow broken on the inside. Whether it’s a woman finding comfort from a blowup doll, a family driving into the lake committing mass suicide or a boy who imagines he’s a detective who investigates a man he believes is his future self. His work is ambitious and…

class and gender in the 1930's are revealed so they can be compared to the issues society has today. Gender and class issues impact people in the time time period of To Kill a Mockingbird as well as in the present day just in different ways. In the novel, the characters deal with problems caused by sexism. Scout despises wearing dresses which makes her different than what her town of Maycomb expects of her. Women in this society are supposed to behave properly and "should be in a dress and…

Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Great Gatsby Whether it is a reasonable assumption or not, one's voice plays a factor in the world's perception of their identity. Even the most insignificant of details, such as one's dialect or use of grammar, can be a broad statement regarding who someone is as an individual. The narrators of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, J.D Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby use their narrative…

Horror, mystery, and masterful storytelling all put into one author. Stephen King is a classic American author, who wrote the famous book and movie, The Green Mile. From wanting to start off as a school teacher to ending up being one of the America’s best selling authors, Stephen King wrote one of the most interesting horror books of all time. In The Green Mile, Stephen King, like most of his books, added mystery and suspense. Mysticism is when people use explainable things that are deemed to be…

Introduction: The great American author, Jack London, wrote many novels and short stories, but his writing was heavily affected by his adventurous life. The early life of Jack London played a huge role in his writing. Jack, through rough times, found reading as a way to get through the tough times. 1. Jack’s reading led him to becoming a reader that studied and focused on the text. He wanted to understand what he was reading, not just having fun while reading. He wrote, [I] was an…

the other soldier’s own vicarious and dangerous actions are never their own decisions, but those of the commanding officer’s above them. The soldiers must risk their lives every mission, even when the missions become pointless, even very late in the novel when they find out they have essentially won the war they continue to fly missions. As well as this, no superior will listen to the questions, comments and concerns of the men below them. Major Major Major for instance will only see people in…

Framed! by James Ponti, is a mystery fiction novel. This book takes place at a museum in Washington D.C at present time. The situation is at the FBI office, where a young boy tries to solve a crime case of a famous painting that was stolen. The main characters in this story are Florian Bates and Margaret. Florian, an ordinary 7th grader, had just moved to Washington D.C from Romania. His first friend he makes in Washington is a girl named Margaret, who is also a 7th grader from the school…

“Melancholy and lovely” is how the author, Nora Roberts described Ireland in her 1994 novel, Born in Fire. To most people, Ireland is known as a peaceful nation. For the most part, they are, but what a lot of people probably don’t know is that this peace that Ireland has work so hard to maintain, has led to some problems in the past. The topic of Irish neutrality is a still hotly debated topic. No country that remained neutral provoked more controversy than Ireland (Neutral Island). Ireland…

One Is Not Always One Does one incident ever really matter? The American Civil War lasted a little over four years with an estimated fifty major battles, so it may appear odd that any single battle can be the sole reason one side prevails over the other. Yet, the Battle of Gettysburg is often considered the turning point of the war and a prime reason why the Union won the war. Some tests in school can have over fifty questions, so it seems mathematically implausible that one question, which…