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JhumpaLahiri faithfully depicted identity crisis of the first and second generation expatriates in her first novel The Namesake. This crisis is dealt through immigrant’s families and their internal and socio-cultural relations with the people of the foreign country. It deals with the cultural identity crisis which is faced by both the generation of the immigrants. In the case of the first generation, the immigrants face dilemma, consciousness of being an outsider and cultural identity crisis due…

background about each one of them. He mentions many examples, and I'm interested in Valjean character because he is the most famous character in this novel. Fernie focuses on him more than the others, he gives many numbers of examples of Valjean's heroism. This article is useful and full of information that contribute to my understanding of the novel story. Dudek, Duane. "Hollywood does Injustice to 'Les Miserables'."…

In the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley often will allude to personal experiences that have happened in her own life. She takes the events of her own life and reflects them through Victor, the monster, and other events in the novel. Examples of this include the deaths of innocent people in the novel, influence of parents, abandonment of a loved one, and how the creation of the novel, Frankenstein, is very similar to Victor’s creation of the creature (Shelley 43). Mary Shelley’s life is death…

of Heathcliff. In the beginning Heathcliff was a homeless orphan and throughout the novel grew as a character, gaining wealth and power. Heathcliff has numerous relationships with other characters within the novel which really give the reader an insight into his personality and what kind of person he is when dealing with different scenarios which he come across. The two main households and property’s which the novel surrounds are Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. Although both share…

prospect of many different characters, especially in the first chapters of the novel, it is difficult to know the character who Woolf is speaking, from which perspective she is talking, but as the novel goes on, it becomes obvious to clarify each character. Major Characters Mrs. Ramsay From the start of the of the novel, Mrs. Ramsay is the principal character, she is as the centre of the house, she controls the novel in the first part “The Window” through her role as a successful mother and…

factor embedded within the novel which contributes to the memorability of the novel is its fascinating language. A fairytale should be happy however, Yolen uses it as an allegory for the Holocaust. According to tradition, a fairytale by nature is didactic or moralistic; 'Briar Rise' does so on both an internal and external level. It teaches children that good will triumph over evil. There is much use of the traditional and original fairytale terms throughout the novel for example “Once upon a…

Since Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow was first published in 1973, the rainbow in the world of literature has not yet come; there is still much debate about how to assess this novel. While some people keep their faith in the text alone, and hence treat a novel as an independent existence, especially a novel as comprehensive as Gravity’s Rainbow, sometimes it is helpful to consider a literary work in the context of the writer’s other works. The evolutionary pattern of a writer’s career may shed light…

While the bildungsroman has an unusual name coming from the German words ‘Bildung’ and ‘Roman’ that literally means education novel, the genre has been very prominent since the 17th century. A novel in this genre focuses on the character change of the protagonist and more so their psychological and ethical growth from youth to adulthood. The novel Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell is of the bildungsroman genre as it strictly follows the maturational process of Brian from a toddler to his…

these concepts in her work. The 2003 movie Frankenstein follows the same idea as Mary Shelley illustrated in her novel. Therefore, the similarities between the novel and the movie are that they both follow the same plot story, show concepts of the Romanticism era, and have similar themes. The movie and the novel are similar in…

over the years. The main stories many people point you to are the sound and the fury and as I lay dying. Throughout the stories many tell about the narrator’s point of view. The novels will explain the life in the south by also using the stream of consciousness and with the monologue and narrative that he uses in the novels. First, Faulkner shows many important perspectives. The purpose of Faulkner’s work is to show much information in a little time. In the light of what has happened in both…