Jane Eyre

The book that I selected is called “The Opposite of Geek” by Ria Voros. This novel was originally published in 2013 and it is a fiction novel. The opposite of geek is about a girl going through the process of growing up as a young adult. This novel contains haiku, high school, and heartache. SETTING The story takes place in high school where a girl named Gretchen is narrating the novel. Not to mention that she has a passion for writing haiku…

In Lewis Carroll’s book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice undergoes a lot of changes that would normally happen if one were growing up . Alice is then trying to figure out how to stay to her normal size through of the book. She has to learn how to act like an adult throughout the book . Alice is troubled with these issues of suddenly acting like an adult and growing up . The Rapid Change of Growth Alice encounters many growth changes through the book. The first change she goes through…

In A Room With A View, E.M. Forester illustrates the change of social times by depicting a love story of a young girl who doesn’t know what she wants as she travels from her home to Italy through symbolism, imagery, and metaphors to develop the theme of changing times and social classes. This novel occurs in a time where people began to transition from a Victorian style of thinking to a Edwardian style. Women’s suffrage was becoming more prominent and the world was seen as more open minded than…

Imagine being forced to be alone with the old reclusive and somewhat scary lady down the street. This is the situation that the Pip, the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dicken’s novel called Great Expectations, has to face. His sister forced him to go to see Miss Havisham, a mysterious lady from the upper class, and play with her at her house. In this passage Pip is seeing her for the first time. In this excerpt the lady is portrayed as a pure or even divine figure at first sight, but after…

Sula by Toni Morrison, follows the story of two young women from childhood into adulthood, in their monotonous hometown of The Bottom. These two girls, Nel and Sula, are presented as opposites of one another throughout the book. As kids, Sula lives a non-traditional life, in a busy boarding house with her grandmother Eva, and her promiscuous mother Hannah; Nel, however, lives in a very ordinary and structured home with her strict mother Helene. Nel longs to be more like Sula, free and individual…

The Film ‘A Little Princess’ directed by Alfonso Cuaron in 1995 and tells a story of a young girl from India, who is sent to stay at a boarding school while her father goes to fight in war, as her mother is dead. On the other hand, the novel ‘The secret Garden’ was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1911 and tells a story of a spoilt ten year old girl who has to move from India to her uncle's house in England after her parents had died from a disease. Both film and novel displays the theme…

He is the Man…Analysis of The Colour of Milk Nell Leyshon’s The Colour of Milk is a novel about the occurrences that lead to the death of a young girl named Mary. Mary lives on a farm with her mother, father, and three other sisters: Hope, Violet and Beatrice. Established in England in 1830, Mary inscribes in first person narrative about her experiences from 1830 to 1831. Early in the book Mary tells of her daily life on the farm dealing with her father and how he mishandles his own father, her…

The story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is about an American man and a girl, Jig. Hemingway described this story like an iceberg, where we can see only some parts of the iceberg which is on the water, but we can’t see the parts of the iceberg which is underwater. This story is mostly composed of dialogue with a few pieces of descriptive detail. The American man and Jig are at a small station-bar. They are waiting for the train which will go to Madrid. The story of their…

D. H. Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow discusses a young woman’s inquisitive desire to explore the unknown world beyond her rural hometown. Unlike her husband and the Brangwen men who are content with the mundane nature of farming, the woman seeks liberation from her sheltered way of life. In her search for intellectual fulfillment, she is fascinated by the vicar, whose experiences and worldliness are beyond her scope of understanding, and resolves to achieve greater knowledge of the world. Lawrence…

GITHA HARIHARAN AS A POST-MODERN INDIAN WOMAN ENLGISH NOVELIST/ Dr. P. SATYANARAYANA, Vice-Principal, Balaji College of Education, Anantapuramu, A.P. India. Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the novels of Githa Hariharan, basing on Theme and Technique. There a quite a large number of novels that use mythical events, characters and motifs as narrative strategies. The use of the Sita myth in Githa Hariharan’s ‘The Thousand Faces of Night’ focuses on the tragic predicament of Indian Women. In…