Modernist Novel

between husband and wife, father and daughter and mother and daughter. Person to person and person to society relationship are the main concerns to her. In this novel Shashi Deshpande has shown the conflicts between the mother and daughter. Mother is a traditional woman while daughter is a educated modern woman. Sarita the protagonist of the novel hates her mother. She thinks that her mother does not like her. Her mother forced her to stay within the four walls and follow the traditional route…

For the book that I liked, I picked Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and I believe that the author, JK Rowling has made an excellent use of language in this very famous novel of hers. Different characters' speech patterns reveal their levels of education. Wizards speak in proper English, and Hagrid, who is half-giant and not fully educated, drops his H's and slurs his words together a bit sloppily. House-elves have no sophisticated mastery of language. They use terrible grammar, referring to…

During the last two decades, Hirokazu Koreeda has emerged as the contemporary master of Japanese family drama, with films like Nobody Knows, Still Walking, Like Father, Like Son and many more. After the Storm continues his legacy in the genre. Ryota, an ex prize-winning novelist has fallen on hard times. He has stopped writing and currently works in a PI agency. However, he spends the money he earns (with shady tactics) on gambling, and is constantly broke. His wife, Kyoko has divorced him, and…

Perspective is how a person sees things, which affects how a story is told. The perspective in Realistic texts such as, "The Wife of His Youth" and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It", are very important for the feeling of the story because it gives the story context and also a realistic feel. It is important to show perspective through a character who sees things in their own particular way. The perspective in these texts explains the time period that these characters lived in,…

Sir Oliver Wendell Holms once said, “Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” My home is not defined by where I live or where I am, it is defined by whom I am with and where my heart is. Home is a place where I feel content in a non-content world. The feeling of content comes from the beauty of the moments where there is perfect silence and of course the moments where the house is thrown into absolute chaos. This location is not really a location but a state of…

Moon Press of Los Angeles— appeared to enthusiastic reviews. This grim and intellectually puzzling mystery belies its surface identity as a “detective novel” and goes on to become a profound meditation on transience and mortality, the inadequacy of language, and ontological isolation . . . Two other…

Jackson is known for many things but mostly for her Horror/Mystery stories as they are known to captivate the reader. Shirley Jackson is a very prolific author because she to brings a unique form of writing to her readers. This is seen through her many novels and short stories as the reader is greeted with something new in each one. “The Lottery” is no exception to this as it entails all of Jacksons best attributes. “The Lottery” depicts that all that glitters is not gold and tradition can be…

Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Merchant's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales shows a moral got from the merchant's identity. The moral communicates the merchant's assessment on marriage. Many commentators have perused this tale and translated its importance in their own particular manner. This modern interpretation of an old tale influences the merchant's character to in any case credible today. The Merchant's Tale recounts the story of an old man looking for a spouse and discovering one, who is at last…

Bridegroom”. Common themes and symbolisms seen throughout her short stories are racism, the deep south, journey, and lots of indirect characterization. Welty is from Mississippi, and most of her stories are set down south. “A Worn Path” is a short novel set in the south and introduces the journey of a young African American woman named Phoenix Jackson. She is heading into town to get medicine for her grandson that is never mentioned, but inferred that he is dead. Throughout her journey the old…

The book, ‘Crazy Times with Uncle Ken’ (2011) chronicles the deeds and misdeeds, adventures and misadventures of Uncle Ken, who helped to enliven Ruskin Bond’s boyhood days. Uncle Ken lived under the dominion of several strong-minded-women – his mother, four sisters, and several cousins and nieces. So, he needed an ally, and sometimes he found an ally in Ruskin. His jobs did not last very long, his grandiose schemes were unsuccessful, and he got both Ruskin and himself – into trouble every…