Novels

“If he were not here with us he would have shot himself long ago” (Remarque 268). Throughout the novel many themes are shown in many ways. Comradeship is shown in the novel when the characters stay together, survive dangers, and make the best of bad situations. An event that shows comradeship by the characters staying together is when Paul and his comrades volunteered to guard a village. When they arrive at the village they relax in a reinforced concrete cellar. “We are just the right…

Monopolization of female psyche in The Lowland by Jumpha Lahiri. Abstract : The Lowland is the second novel by Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It deals with a mother in Diaspora, Gauri, and her daughter ,Bela. Human character and their attitude to life are defined and revoluted by surroundings and circumstances in which they live.The transformation of their psyches are processed by such factors .This transformation have been critiqued in this paper. Gauri goes…

A Picaresque Novel, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn There are many characteristics that need to be met in order to have a picaresque novel. Typically the story is given in a first person narrative. The main character is referred to as the picaro and is generally a member of the lower class. The novel usually lacks a consistent plot, instead it is told in a bevy of different adventures. The picaro character is usually used to point out the hypocrisies and wrongdoings of society while giving a…

The idea of the depression within the novel fits perfectly in introducing some significant issues that Allie experiences. In fact the author Mary Ann Hoberman, is able to fill the novel with a ton of issues that children face as they grow up into adults. The setting of the depression is important but the idea of depression as an emotional state is also significant in this novel. One character in particular that has been through the emotional stress that is depression is Meme. This is a brave…

Memories are significant in the novel Speak, as well as in the two pieces of literature, The Third and Final Continent and The Art of Resilience. In the novel Speak, horrific memories were used to inform a peer according to the peer’s relationship. The text in The Third and Final Continent suggests that a person’s memories may be used to benefit themselves or others. Finally, The Art of Resilience states that one’s memories are used to seek hidden powers inside themselves. In each of the…

Introduction The great sociological changes in the society after World War Second result in the appearance of a new assortment of the genre of novel, Campus Novel. ‘Campus’ is conventionally a land on which a College or University and other institutional edifices are located. David Lodge states, ‘The ideal type of a human community, where work and play, culture and nature, were in perfect harmony, where there was a space and light, and fine buildings set in pleasant grounds, and people were free…

The novel is at once one of the most diverse, one of the most complex and one of the most popular of literary genres. As Andrew Michael Roberts defines in Introduction: The Novel as a Genre, A genre of written prose fictional narrative… is characterized by a strong interest in plot; by a degree of psychological and/or social realism, and frequently by the presence of elements of moral, political or social comment. (Robert 150) The English Novel, from its beginning in the late seventeenth and…

A dystopian novel is an example of a perfect but oppressed and restricted community in which it is questioned by the protagonist and as a result it has gained great fame in the 21st century. A dystopia is a “bad place” written to frighten the reader and is known as “utopia’s polarized mirror image”. It makes a critique about a current movement, social standard or political system. Dystopian novels have gained great success in the 21st century as part of the Science Fiction subgenre. Many…

What Makes a Great Fiction Novel? The writers who enjoy writing fiction novels have a challenge to deal with that non-fiction writers do not. Whereas non-fiction writers have a fact based story that is supported, no matter how crazy it may sound to some, writers of fiction make take an idea that is purely a fiction of their imagination and make it real. The characters must stand out, the story must be interesting, and it must be able to make a person feel as though they are part of the story in…

1.) Who is the protagonist-the main character-in the novel? The protagonist in the novel was a sixteen-year-old female named Katniss Everdeen. 2.) What kind of person is the protagonist? Be sure to focus on the personality of the character. 3.) What evidence in the text leads you to this opinion of the protagonist? Be specific-include direct quotes from the text. Katniss Everdeen was a slim and pale figure that possessed lengthy black hair and mysterious blue eyes. The female was a clever,…