Novel

in the novel Despair by Vladmir Nabokov. Nabokov had a common theme in many of his works and a theme that is very prevalent in this novel- fake doubles. He creates a static and narcissistic protagonist, Hermann, that propels the plot forward and sets the base for Nabokov’s love for fake doubles. The novel is also heavily characterized by Hermann’s point of view, because the reader is given vivid descriptions of Hermann’s thoughts and desires. Symbols are found densely throughout this novel as…

How Much Should the Author’s Life be Known Authors Sylvia Plath of “The Bell Jar” and Justin Torres of “We the Animals” both incorporated many of their personal life events and struggles into their debut novels. By incorporating their hardships into their literary work, the two books provide an extensive look into both of the author 's frustration and fanciful imagination. In “The Bell Jar”, the protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is first described as a studious girl who, through her education,…

Robinson Mistry’s novel, A Fine Balance, focuses on India’s political and social situation during the Emergency Period: a period of oppression, violence, tyranny and corruption. In other words, Mistry deals with the human experience in his novel. In this novel the social and the political are intertwined. The author has been able to show this in his novel through the characters’ different experiences presented to the reader. Their fate and their life are profoundly bound to the political…

The novel, Monkey Beach by Eden Robison is told through the perspective of the main character Lisa. She is a young woman with the ability to see sprits and communicate with the dead. The story started when her parents’ gets a call from the coast guard telling them that her brother Jimmy is missing along with his friend Josh. Lisa’s parents then decide to go to Namu to get closer to the search and help in looking for Jimmy. While her parents are away, her Aunt Edith is staying with her to keep…

was more going on then that. Marlowe morals changed drastically throughout the book and not in the best of ways. Conrads novel, heart of darkness he uses the literary elements of symbolism, conflict, and characterization to illustrate the theme that what humans are surrounded by darkness they can become blind to the truth. Conrad uses various types of symbols throughout the novel to illustrate the theme. For…

Turn of the Screw is written in gothic style, and is told from a first person point of view. The style is enigmatic- it leaves the reader to decide what is truly occurring within the novel. The novel talks of ghosts, and supernatural occurrences in a haunted castle. It is based on the way the reader perceives the novel. The American, however, is an extremely straightforward book. It is stylistically written as a dramatic love story between a French girl and an American and is told from a third…

The film adaption of the novel is unique. Right away in the film, the first difference is about the characters, “‘We're English, and the English are best at everything. So we've got to do the right things’” (33). In the movie, all of the boys are American cadets while in the novel they are English schoolboys. Another spot to notice is that Ralph’s arm also appears to be wounded but in the novel all the boys are well. On the screen, it reveals the settings as a beautiful island but the text…

The hook of a novel is arguable the most important element. It catches the reader’s attention and makes them interested in the story. Without a hook, there is nothing for the reader to connect to, which leads to them becoming uninterested and putting down the book. Based on “The Hook” by K.M. Weiland, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of “The Sign of the Four” has successfully written a good hook. Doyle opens the novel with the main character, Sherlock Holmes, and then he immediately makes the…

In the novel The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the literary element of imagery to create a vivid image in the reader's mind and set the mood. A specific example of this was when Nick the chauffeur, butler and gardener go down by the pool to see what had happened to Gatsby, they look and, “With little ripples that were hardly shadows of waves[...] a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a compass, a thin red circle in the water,” (Fitzgerald 140).…

Deborah Ellis’s novel No Safe Place explores the journeys of 3 adolescent refugees and an orphaned English boy. Throughout their journey, their ability to work as part of a team becomes more apparent, as the challenges they face become more complex. This following essay will examine the ways in which Abdul, Rosalia, Cheslav and Jonah help each other overcome hardships and work together to accomplish their goals From the outset, it is clear that without the refugees working together, they would…