Novel

South, written by Elizabeth Gaskell, takes place in the industrial Northern English town of Milton. It talks about Margaret’s views of society and how people lived during the 19th century in what is known as Victorian, England. Written within the novel there are many social, cultural, and historical issues that arise. In the Victorian age, the class limits are exceptionally strict. Henceforth, the samples of social adjustability are exceptionally uncommon and almost inconceivable. Besides, in…

of an average, naïve, and imaginative girl, Catherine. The excerpt from this novel is particularly interesting and is in the voice of a narrator, which we assume is Jane Austen’s voice through analyzing the voice and word choice of the text. The excerpt covers a description of Catherine’s friendship with Isabella, which is used to lead into Austen’s discussion of novels in context to the times in regards to her fellow novel writers. A lot can be learned about Austen through the close reading of…

When grounded upon Raymond Williams’ concept of the dominant society and the perpetual flux between filtering residual and emergent cultures, the existence of the novel by such definitions are placed into that of the former. Novels represent a notion of residual culture that has been deeply absorbed within the current superstructure as “they contribute to the effective dominant culture and are a central articulation of it” (Williams 1434), while creating more production for the base through…

feed movie. The graphic novel Coraline is an adventure story written by Neil Gaiman and was later adapted into a movie directed by Henry Selick. Even though most movies are made from the basis of the original novel, the remodeling of the novel Coraline was paradoxical in how they used the “Hero’s Cycle” to convey a different meanings to the target audience. The mentors in the Coraline graphic novel was portrayed significantly differently in the adaptation of the graphic novel. In every story,…

and was changed for the better. Not only did this series advance my accumulation of literature but it also progressed my creativity. After picking up the first novel in the Shatter Me series, I was unquestionably addicted to reading your books. With each page came new and exciting twists that kept me sitting on the edge of my seat. The novels Unravel Me and Ignite Me truly tie the end of the series together as they explain Juliette’s last hours at Omega…

The novel and the movie, while sharing many similarities, have multiple differences that make them unique. The novel is dense and rich with interesting details that the reader uncovers over the course of the plot. The movie, on the other hand, is action-packed and dramatized to give the viewer a more captivating experience. Some of the most notable differences are; character development, scenes and dialog, and how the end has been changed to make the movie more engaging. While the book goes into…

writing their piece. When the purpose has been declared, the writer elucidates their goal throughout the entire novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Timothy Findley use purpose to inform the reader about previous events. For instance, in a historical drama novel, the author writes about past events and incorporates them to fit the everyday life of the characters. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald conveys that although individuals are living the American Dream,…

Takami’s novel Battle Royale chronicles how a middle school class must participate in a politically dystopian Japanese government’s combat experiment. This novel has strong correlations to Lord of the Flies, Legend and The Hunger Games as they center around children being forced to kill one another to survive. Takami’s novel explores the idea that innocence in society can diverge into either fighting, accepting, or resigning themselves to a dire fate over which they have no control. This novel…

The second prolog of the novel begins by Miguel De Cervantes expressing his frustrations with the author who published a fake sequel to Don Quixote. This metafictional approach uses irony to address the plagiarism and blends the two worlds of reality and fiction. Cervantes claims he does not want to malign the dishonest author, Avellaneda. However, Cervantes goes on ranting about how this counterfeit author should ashamed of himself. As the paragraph progresses, there is a sense of growing…

character development within the novel with specific reference to narrative voice. Room, a novel by Emma Donoghue, focuses greatly on the dysfunctional life of Ma and her illegimitate child Jack inside the room that their captor and Ma's rapist, Old Nick, keeps them locked within. The novel is narrated by Jack, the 5 year old bastard son of Ma and Old Nick, however even with his narration, his character development is often overshadowed by the events in the novel. Ma and Jack's life inside the…