William Faulkner

In his short story Blankets, Alex La Guma takes us through the life story of Choker. He makes use of the blankets as a motif and flashbacks to help us understand the past, which intern help us to understand the present. The essay will show how the story of Choker can be seen as tragic, and how the onlookers are antagonistic toward Choker and vice versa. It will also show how the readers can show both sympathy and antipathy toward Choker, and will indicate a reversal of initial assumptions.…

"Character Studies for Les Miserables." Stuartfernie. Stuart Fernie, n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2015. Stuart Fernie is one of the most famous writers, that's why I choose his article from his own website. In this article Fernie talks about the main characters, he focuses on the way of how they act, think and gives background about each one of them. He mentions many examples, and I'm interested in Valjean character because he is the most famous character in this novel. Fernie focuses on…

Silence plays a significant role in Adichie’s novel “Purple Hibiscus” this is prevalent through the relationship Kambili has with her immediate and extended family. Throughout the novel one can identify how kambilis relationship with her family develops, when this occurs one notices the function that silence has, this in turn represents the maturity and the development of character through the use of language and the different forms silence. At the beginning of the novel silence represents…

The Catcher in the Rye This is an analysis of the novel The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D Salinger. The analysis will contain Holden’s development throughout the course of the novel, as well as what kind of a character I personally perceive him to be. I will also bring up some minor characters. Let’s start with Holden’s development. At the beginning of the novel, he is an unhappy boy with a lot of problems. He is depressed and confused. It seems that every since his little brother Allie…

Born and brought up in a traditional South Indian family, Adiga is a true Indian both in spirit and thought. Much has been said about Adiga as an outstanding and an unassailable story teller. If Mulkraj Anand is considered as a socially committed novelist, Adiga is often applauded as a painter of vivid Kittur, a microcosm of Indian social milieu. Adiga has published four short stories The Sultan’s Battery, Smack, Last Christmas in Bandra and The Elephant between 2008 and 2009, drawing upon…

Cormac McCarthy's All The Pretty Horses tells the story of a young man, John Grady Cole, from Texas who realizes that his idealistic vision of a traditional Old West future is being compromised by the modernization of American culture. Grady holds himself to a cowboy code which advocates honestly, loyalty, and ardor above all. While the code is well intentioned it is also overly idealistic and ultimately leads Grady and his travel companion and friend Lacey Rawlins to some misfortunes.…

Maggie, a girl of her own unfortunate environment In Stephen Crane’s “Maggie a Girl of the Streets” published in the year 1893, there is a very clear demonstration of naturalism. This particular piece of work by Stephen Crane was published during the time of the Industrial Revolution. Where the factory workers in the city were in the true since of the word treated like slaves who had no voice, yet they stayed because either you worked for basically nothing and tried to support your family or…

“Her decease,” he said, with a bitterness which I can never forget,” would leave him (him the hopeless and the frail) the last of the ancient race of the Ushers.” This quote is from “The Fall of the House of Ushers” and it explains that the Usher siblings, Roderick and Madeline are the last ones in their family, and the fate of their family line lies on them. But what is not explained is that the siblings have a strong bond. In the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Edgar Allan Poe…

In her short story, “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” by Flannery OʻConnor, she writes on the importance of moral beliefs and how violence can be derived from that. The short story is about a family traveling to Florida while a criminal known as the Misfit is on the loose and traveling to Florida as well. Through a series of events, the differences and moral beliefs between generations can be seen. While on the road, the family gets into an accident and encounters the Misfit and two other men who…

Rosana Bravo April 23, 2017 Week Assignment 2- Compare and Contrast Southern Fiction- Mrs. Crow “The Awakening” VS “The Open Boat” The story “The Open Boat.” is that of an exemplary naturalism because of its skeptical representation of life, the characters are left with the presumption to the will of external forces, and nature which is not an entity but rather an indifferent force. Stephen Crane’s story seems to have a theme of hopelessness that runs through it which contributes to its…