Nobel Prize in Literature

Driving question: What can literature teach me about the experience/struggles Jews went through the Holocaust and the concentration camps? Literature can teach me many things about the experiences and the struggles many Jews went through during the Holocaust and also the concentration camps. For instance, the book Night by Elie Wiesel. This book is about the story of how much suffrage Elie and his fellow Jew companions went through. Literature, such as this book, can teach me how it wasn’t so…

I wanted to write books that ran the whole gamut of women’s sexual experiences. I did not like the imposition that had been placed on black women’s sexuality in literature. They were either mammies or whores. And they were not vulnerable people. They were not people who were supposed to enjoy sex, either that was forbidden in literature…. To enjoy your body, be in your body, defend your body…Right now,…

Watson was born in Chicago in 1928 and graduated from the University of Chicago. He is an American biologist, geneticist and zoologist and is best known for his Nobel Prize winning discovery of the structure of DNA along with Francis Crick. He is also known for his work with the Human Genome Project and continues to be one of the most influential scientists in the past century. I chose to read this book because I had…

Czeslaw Milosz was the most inspirational and courageous man alive. He saved lives, stood up to Nazism and went through all odds to regain diverse literature. Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. He and his family had to flee Lithuania during the Stalin reign and Hitler’s invasions on Russia. He then moved on to other activities such as writing and poetry. He moved to Paris to see his distant cousin. Many things changed when he moved there. He joined “The Zagary”; a poetic group that…

Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath (Pearl 306). He also won the O. Henry best story of the year award for The Murder, a short story (John 20). Sadly, after winning the Nobel Prize in literature, he only wrote nonfiction (Web). In a majority of his books, the setting was California (John 13). A common theme was telling how humans must work together…

“The Universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Spirit is present everywhere.” This new voice led American Romanticism to a new and mature period, the period of New England Transcendentalism. This was the most significant development of American literature in the mid-19th century. Development The Concord club was the first and most famous of a series of forums that served during the next few decades as social gathering points. It became the movement's magnetic center. They advocated their…

Art has always been a major part of humanity and it’s culture. From old cave paintings, to the Renaissance, to William Shakespeare, to Van Gogh, to The Beatles, and to film, art has been surrounding us since the beginning of mankind. It’s always around us, even in the simplest things like our homes, furniture, and clothes. It’s more important than how it’s commonly portrayed, and can give us a deeper insight into a society and it’s history. During the 1960’s in Latin America, culture was…

William Faulkner was an abnormal man, from an abnormal family, had an abnormal life and wrote abnormal stories. Many of these stories seem to have been greatly influenced by Faulkner 's life and way of thinking. He liked to catch people off guard and give them sum what of a puzzle to ponder for a wile and maybe even find their own meaning in what he wrote, giving his characters more meaning to him than most people may ever realize. William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897.…

daughter as an innocent and when they met after years she appeared totally different. Part. II .Literature Review Eugene O’Neill as the father of the American theatre and a winner of the Nobel Prize has undergone many studies and critical books were written on him. The author of Mourning Becomes Electra is a creative and versatile dramatist. His works brings about the many schools of art and literature into real life application. The other scholars have applied the naturalism, expressionism and…

African American literature has been sustained by the work of Black women. Their works have center the Black community and the era they were in. From Phyllis Wheatley in the slavery and freedom era to Lorraine Hansberry during the Civil Rights Movement, Black women have a significant role in the literature of the time. As the United States transitioned into the 1970s, a new wave African American literature was born: the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance. Wanting to alter the depictions of Black…