Pulitzer Prize for the Novel

The book The Yearling, by: Marjorie Kinnan Rawling is an ingenious novel. Out of the thirteen Pulitzer Prizes given out each year, Marjorie Kinnan Rawling received one in 1939 for The Yearling. She achieved this award by using artful syntax, sensory detail, and figurative language in such a stellar way to showcase a family’s move to Florida and the struggles within it. One of the three essential rhetorical devices that really tied the novel together was syntax. Even though it was not used as much in the story, it was used in a way that made everything that much more compelling. In paragraph four, three simple words make the whole thing come to a stop. “The fawn blinked.” (Rawling, 5). Not only does the paragraph end, but the reader also comes to an end. Another similar example of syntax is found in paragraph 11, “He stopped short.” (Rawling, 6). Again, a very powerful tool to cut the paragraph short in such a simple way. Going from a three word…

There are thousands of novels written every year, and only a select few win awards. It’s a competitive market, and the Pulitzer Prize is one of the toughest to win. Back in 1939 (wikipedia.com), The Yearling won this prestigious award. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings deserved the Pulitzer Prize for her novel for many reasons, including her creative uses of figurative language, syntax, and sensory details. Her several uses of figurative language enhanced her writing by describing the situations in the…

with very plain and bland grammar. He is known as a master of dialog, which makes you feel like that is what people would actually say. He uses pronouns without clear intentions of what he is meaning, such as using “it,” but not being clear with what “it” really means. Ernest has earned multiple awards and achieved as much as he could hope for throughout his lifetime. He made his first appearance in American literature with the publication of his short story called In Our Time (Hemingway). The…

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Out, Out— is a narrative poem published in 1916 by Robert Frost, a winner of several Pulitzer awards and a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University. The characters in the poem include the protagonist, a young boy, his sister, and their assumable parents. The initial lines of the poem are quite pleasant as they evoke the aural, visual, and olfactory senses, but the poem takes a sharp turn as it then presents readers with intense tactile imagery and a cold ending. Why would Robert…

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The Borrowers by Mary Norton is a classic novel that does not get dated with time. “Marcus Crouch comments that, ‘of all the winners of the Carnegie Medal [awarded annually by the British Library Association to the best children's novel of the preceding year], it is the one book of unquestioned, timeless genius’” (Stott). The Borrowers was published in 1952 has continued to be read throughout the following years. This book is still in print and is still being read even sixty years after it was…

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