Pulitzer Prize for the Novel

Color Purple is an epistolary novel written in1982 by Alice Walker. She was born to sharecropper parents in Eatonton, Georgia, in 1944. She is Pulitzer Prize-winning, African-American novelist and poet most famous for authoring The Color Purple. The Color Purple novel presents three black women who have struggles on their lives, and their society forces them to live like slaves and maids .They fight to achieve independency and freedom from men domination. Moreover, the novel creates a link to…

Explain the Theme of Courage in the Novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee, published in 1960, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the 1930’s in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. During this time, the Great Depression was in effect, which resulted in many people being poor and having to deal with poverty; many still showed courage to overcome this difficult time. Courage is one of the main themes in this novel and is portrayed in the…

The perceptive quality of Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Olive Kitteridge, focuses on the ordinary, the regular, and quotidian aspects of life; growing old, the fluctuations of a marriage, the anxious growth of children, and life’s everyday trivialities and little feelings that swell throughout an individual lifespan. Strout achieves this empathetic sense by using long detailed and descriptive sentences, a healthy mix of cumulative and periodic which explore and bluntly state…

In class we are reading, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It is a masterpiece of American literature, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. So far in the novel, we are introduced to a small number of families, one of whom is the Finch’s. In the Finch family, there are two children, Scout and Jem. Scout has just started school, at first not wanting to go back. After some convincing by Atticus, she reached a compromise to return to school. Atticus is the father of the two, widowed when his…

A living person is identified as someone that is a living creature, that includes having a range of emotions that distinguish character traits. A book that showcases this successfully is “The Old Man and the Sea” a novel written by Ernest Hemingway that was published on September 1, 1952. It tells the story of a fisherman named Santiago that has had no luck in catching fish in 84 days. There is also a boy named Manolin, and together they help each other in many ways until one day Manolin leaves…

Her mother suffered from a mental illness and rarely left the house (similar to Boo Radley). Lee studied law (similar to atticus) and then published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960 during the Civil Rights Movement. Her novel went on to win the Pulitzer Prize a year later. In her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the social and gender inequalities are the main issues. Lee approaches these themes with the perspective of Scout, juxtaposition, symbolism, and foreshadowing. Scout is young girl who is…

in Maycomb, Alabama in 1933 during the great depression.Throughout the novel, it addresses the growth of maturity in Atticus's children intelligent, tomboyish girl Jean Louise Finch also known as Scout and Jeremy Atticus Finch also known as Jem.It had the central conflict of the Tom Robinson court case and climax being tom being found guilty leaving Jem confused after him and his sister was harassed by classmates…

Jodi Thongsy Professor Garman English 1A Section #1374 25 September 2014 Divorced with a Teen In his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Empire Falls, Richard Russo depicts the lives of average people in a deserted town of Empire Falls, Maine. Two of the primary characters in the story are Miles Roby, a hard working father that manages the Empire Grill, and Janine Roby, Miles ex-wife. The two have a long history together. They once shared a life together as married couple, but things change when…

project I am going to focus on the “Trial Scene and its relationship to the rest of the novel in novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HARPER LEE”. She wrote this novel in 1960. It was reached to great success and won the PULITZER PRIZE, and known as the classical novel. The plot and character are closely relate to authors family. It was based on the event that took place near her hometown when she was 10 yrs. old. The novel began during three years (1933-35) of the Great Depression in the fictional…

Throughout the beginning of the novel, Scout acts like she is not afraid of anything. Along with fear and courage, Lee mentions the recognition of cowardice and heroism. To Scout and Jem, Atticus is the hero in the story. Yet in the beginning they did not consider their father a hero because…