Pulitzer Prize

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…

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…

play, by American playwright, August Wilson in 1983 and set in 1957. Wilson who was born as Frederick Kittel, adopted the pen name, August Wilson, after the death of his father. Fences is one of Wilson’s most famous plays, which “earned him a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award in 1987” (“August Wilson Biography”). Fences is about a black man, Troy, and his family, who have conflicts with not only each other, but also struggle with discrimination, which was highly present at the time. Troy’s wife,…

Incites on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird In “ To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee emphasizes the metaphor of a Mockingbird as in the title. She creates themes of innocents being destroyed, social inequality, and importance of a moral figure in a child’s life while using the southern gothic genre. It’s set in a tired old town 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…

The 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…

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…

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…

Muriel Rukeyser said "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms", it 's true. Perharps it 's not true for scientist, but Alice Walker has proved the power of stories. I believe we can know it from her stories, "Everyday Use" and "The Color Purple", and also her autobiography. They are very impressing for readers. According to New Georgia Encyclopedia, Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton. During her childhood, She has precocious spirit that vanished when her…

In To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee shows her astounding writing skills by using universal themes from which anybody can learn. Even more astounding, the themes she used in To Kill a Mockingbird can still be applied today. For example, one theme that still applies today is the problem with racism and how to deal with it. Even though it is not like it was in the 30s, people nowadays still deal with racism and even look down on others that are different. Another theme we can still…

INTRODUCTION In this 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…