Novel

Alexie provides the readers a succinct description of character for the great American Indian novel. In the first 22 lines, he discusses the characters, both hero and heroine. For the hero for example, there some qualities that must be possessed. In general, the great American Indian novel must have a character with the tragic features (line 1-2). They must have secrets (line 14-15), and see visions (line 25). Aside from the tragic features, having secret and seeing vision, first of all the hero…

In the novel Room, Ma intentionally deceives her son, Jack, so that he remains ignorant to reality. Ma was kidnapped by Old Nick when she was a teenager and kept in a shed in his backyard for the past seven years. There, Ma was raped by Nick, and gave birth to their son Jack. The shed, referred to by Ma and Jack as “Room”, is the only world Jack knows exists. He has never been outside. As Jack grew older and began to question life and reality, Ma consistently came up with lies to deceive Jack,…

Every parent wishes the best for the child they raise, and unfortunately, many parents inadvertently raise an inconsiderate kid without moral values. In the book, Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, the character Pip is mainly raised by kind and warm-hearted Joe, who exemplifies and tries to impart his moral values into Pip. He opts to create a friendship with Pip rather than a father-son relationship, and Joe watches as his friend descends into a web of misery. While Joe did his…

isolation vs. intimacy has been analyzed since the 1900s when Erik Erikson made it stage 6 of his theory of psychological development. Isolation is at it’s highest effect during a person’s young adult life. Winston is a younger adult in George Orwell’s novel, 1984 (1944), and he is faced with the dilemma of isolation vs. intimacy when he begins to fall for a girl named Julia. As he lives in a futuristic society that eliminates the free thought of their citizens by forcing them to live in fear…

Chapter one of the novel, "How To Read Novels Like a Professor", by Thomas C. Foster, discusses the importance of page one of a novel. He explains how many literacy elements can be identified in the first page of a novel and even the first paragraph. He goes on to state the important literacy devices that should be identified in a novel. These include: style, tone, mood, diction, point of view, time management, place, motif, theme, and characters. It also includes the narrative prescense and…

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry Stacey “comes of age” and learns from many trials that make him wiser and grow more as a person. Even though he made many mistakes, it helped him grow by having to solve and deal with the consequences. During the whole novel he learned many lessons such as cutting ties, being the bigger person, and standing up for what is right. Through this process of gaining “thicker skin” he became harsher of a person who in the end, always looks out for his family. Stacy has…

In Jane Austen’s Gothic Novel Northanger Abbey, there are two polarizing characters introduced; John Thorpe and Henry Tilney. In virtually every love story there a choice between lovers to be made by the heroine, both exhuming intriguing qualities, and Northanger Abbey is no exception to this. Henry Tilney and John Thorpe happen to be the two men of interest. Austen fascinatingly presents the two men as contrasting characters, both in their values, morals, and behaviors. Austen uses the two…

The seventeenth-century Gothic novel is associated with the combination of the supernatural realm and Romanticism. Jane Austen’s novel, Northanger Abbey, is an attempt to critique the seventeenth-century Gothic novel by identifying Catherine’s sensibility through her over fascination and addiction to reading—such as Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho. Austen utilizes Catherine’s obsession with novels as a means to highlight how such fascination has caused Catherine to become naïve and…

still able to find some success in both the reservation and in Raridon. This is an important part of the novel as is shows growth throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel Junior has the mindset that the only way for him to find success is to leave the reservation, but by the end of the novel, Junior realizes that success can be found both in and out the reservation. Throughout the novel Alexia uses both characters from within the reservation and at Raridon to help Junior grow both…

Character development is often times a necessary part of any story line; just as humans shape the world around them, characters shape stories. In most, if not all, novels, characters experience change and development of their psychological and moral traits throughout the story, which can be attributed to a multitude of aspects including fate and destiny, but more importantly are the cultural, physical, and geographical surroundings of the characters. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter,…