Novels

James Moloney's coming-of-age novel, A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove, illustrates the life of an adolescent boy called Carl Matt. Using the experiences that Carl and other characters, Moloney demonstrates that every human being needs love and acceptance to feel a sense of belonging and worth in this world. Carl and his brother Harley throughout most of do not receive the correct guidance or love and worth and have lived in a corrupt family, until they meet Joy and Skip Duncan and Justine and later on…

second half of the nineteenth century in many ways. Zola was born in 1840, in Paris, he has spend most of his childhood in Aix-en-Provence. Zola lost his father at a young age, just like many of his characters that he would later write about in this novels. He was raised by his mother and his maternal grandparents. When Zola began writing and working in publishing, he became very interested in science, and began developing his own literary style. When Zola started composing Therese Raquin in…

In her novel, Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi beautifully writes about the lives of descendants from two half-sisters, Effia and Esi. No matter what side of the family a character came from, they all seemed to be on the search for a common theme; their identity. Throughout the whole novel, the characters had a longing to know their roots, which ultimately shapes their identity. As the novel goes along, the characters lose more of a sense of their identity than that of the previous characters. Knowing where…

Dreams serve as an effective way to look deeper into the character of a novel. Dreams allow authors to speak through their characters in a new way and act as a ploy to insert an idea or theme into a narrative, subtly. Dreams can speak to the mind of a character in profound and indirect way (WC) as well. Furthermore, dreams reflect both A Map of Home and Minaret and act as a motif to highlight the main characters as well as add to characterization. The two protagonists, Najwa and Nidali, come…

the novel Room brings a juvenile point of view to the text that is avant-garde. Meaning that his point of view is innovative. It can be seen as controversial, where he is restricted as an observer, because his mind is not fully developed yet, and he is still learning. One might confuse this as unreliable. But the fact that Jack is an inexperienced individual in his setting, it is the tension in this that makes both him as the narrator and the story more compelling. Jack’s voice in the novel is…

contemporary romance novels. Johnson has sold about one million copies of her various stories in either print or digital format since 2006. She has written many novels and short stories, her series include: Studs in Spurs, Oklahoma Nights, Midnight Cowboys, Hot SEALs, Red, Hot, & Blue, The Trilogy Collection, Olympus; which features four novellas, Texas Two Step, Maverick Ranch, USMC Military Romance. The Studs in Spurs is a series that does not feature the same lead throughout all the novels,…

The time period in which the novel, The Quarter-Pie Window, takes place in is 1830’s Canada, and during this time period women where slowly starting to get educated, and the only way to communicate with someone how lived far away was through letters. Boys of rich families were usual…

The graphic novel Maus is an ingenious piece of literature through its usage of illustrations along with text. The co-relation between the text and images is so steadfast that one could only look at the pictures and understand the message the author is trying to get across. There are many instances as such when we can “read” the pictures and understand the meaning, specifically page thirty-three is a great example. Page thirty-three communicates to the reader the messages of hate, oppression and…

identity has always enjoyed a defining significance in the thematic framework of the Indo-Anglican novels. The novels of Shobha design the techno – thematic fabric of Indian English fiction and lay the foundation of the new Indian English fiction. The post – colonial age represented by Shobha De is chiefly a quest for identity along different dimensions of socio – political and economic order of India. The novels of Shobha De explore the thick congested fabric of Indian life and structure her…

Novel: the American Object From the beginning, America has been all about creativity and the weaving of tales. From the manipulation of the Boston Massacre, to famous documents like the Constitution, and speeches such I Have a Dream and the Gettysburg Address. It is not present in just famous examples, however. This creativity can be seen in tall tales carried by mouth and hoaxes in newspapers, magazines and journals. One of the most popular forms of this creativity has been in the written…