W. Somerset Maugham

In the nonfiction novel, “Going Solo,” the reader is taken on a breathtaking adventure through the struggles and achievements in the life of Roald Dahl. Filled with injuries and hardships, dangers and travels, the story following Dahl’s life is like no other. The writing strategies and wise words used by Dahl help the reader form clear pictures throughout the story about his life. However, there is more than just his superb writing tactics used in the making of this book. Explained by the novelist William Somerset Maugham, “There are three rules for writing a good book. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.” Although the truth of this quote is evident, there are three rules that can be followed in Dahl’s autobiography. Being able to connect…

‘How does Catherine mature over the course of the novel?’ The novel Northanger Abbey – written by Jane Austen in 1817 – tells the story of a young woman who travels to Bath with her wealthy neighbours, and how she grows and matures into adulthood over the course of the book by taking responsibility for her many mistakes and actions. Predominantly, this essay is a tale of one girl’s maturity into a young adult. She makes very many mistakes along the path to growing up, however, she does show…

“The person, be it a gentleman or a lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”- Jane Austen Northanger Abbey. Growing up around books influenced the way Jane Austen incorporated symbols into her own writings, sometimes even using books to build her characters and themes. Prominently shown through Austen’s Northanger Abbey and seen in her other pieces, she expertly uses engaging realism, subtle irony, and effective parodies of what was going on during her lifetime,…

Persuasion In the book, Persuasion by Jane Austen, Austen’s book took place in rural Somersetshire in the eighteenth century. She also had scenes that continued into some from cities in rural Somersetshire, which are three locales in England. These three locales are completely different cities, with completely different living styles and very informative historical things to know about these cities. Around the time of publication of this book, England was a completely different country from what…

Catherine Morland is the main character of Jane Austen’s book Northanger Abbey. Catherine is a protagonist, an un-heroic heroine, and the comedic figure of the story. Catherine is not like your typical heroine in a lot of ways. She isn’t smart, wealthy, beautiful, or tragic. Which was what Jane Austen used to break away from gothic novels. Catherine Morland is an un-heroic heroine. She is unfortunate but a very nice and sweet girl whom can be ridiculous at times. She isn’t very experienced…

True North – Anna Darlene Edmondson “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him (Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV). Say you were lost in dense-wooded timberland. Probably, your own intuitions of ‘true north’ would misguide you (like my GPS). It’s continuously recalculating … and sadly, I miss appointments. Ugh! Truth is, I depend on technology and believe it’s faultless. Yet, glitches abound with nearly everything man creates. However,…

Roald Dahl was a short story writer, a poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. One of his books was called “The Landlady”. In his story, it talks about a lady around forty-five to fifty years old, living in a house by herself until someone came around. She seems too nice at first but later on in the story when the main character, Billy, comes around and stays with her, you will find out why the landlady usually never gets guests to stay at her house. In this story, “The Landlady,” Billy Weaver…

In Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, the protagonist is a young naïve girl who is not a very good judge of character. She falls in love with a man much older than her, named Henry Tilney. Henry enjoys Catherine’s ignorance and educating her of things she doesn’t know. This essay will examine a passage from volume two, chapter nine wherein Henry finds out Catherine has been accusing his father of murdering his mother. Through the use of satirical tone, the implementation of odd…

Wallace’s analysis of Northanger Abbey focuses on the reader’s relationships with the narrator and the author. To highlight this relationship, Wallace chooses to concentrate on the character of Henry Tilney. More specifically, Wallace shows how Henry Tilney’s satire relies on reductive generalizations of other characters, particularly female ones. Wallace then connects this trait of Henry’s to Austen’s tendency to reductively generalize her readers and manipulate her reader into becoming an…

Ragnarok by A.S Byatt is a novel about the experiences and internal struggles of a young girl who grew up in England during the World War II. The young girl, known as The Thin Child, lives in the England countryside as a result of the raging war in the city and of its surroundings. Throughout the novel the Thin Girl ponders many questions concerning why is the war happening?, is her father coming back? and whether or not the germans are good or bad people? To make sense of these questions, the…