Mankind has always been in search of something more meaningful than we can truly comprehend, when in actuality, there really isn't anything we can truly comprehend to begin with. Mankind is plummeting towards an unknown destiny of prosperity or devastation and there is truly nothing we can do or say...

All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most influential novels ever published, depicts the horrific events of World War I. Written around 1929, the author Erich Maria Remarque himself participated in the war therefore enabling him to provide the realistic details to accomplishing his successful...

Jorge Amadoi¿½s i¿½Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamoni¿½ is a tale of occurrences within several months in the township if Ilhi¿½us, which is a province of the larger city of Bahai, situated in the northern Brazil. The foreword of the Portuguese translation of the book starts out with the first ...

1. One Fat English Man 2. The author of the novel is Kingsley Amis, copyright 1963. 3. Kingsley Amis was a British writer from England. 4. Major Characters Roger Micheldene is the man the book focuses primarily upon. He is "a shortish fat Englishman of forty (6)" and a publisher. O...

What does a reading of 'Of Mice and Men' reveal about the culture and experience of migrant workers in the 1930s America? Of Mice and Men is a novel set on a ranch in the Salinas Valley in California during the Great Depression of the 1930s. By reading it, the reader learns a lot a...

In the times of slavery, there were two popular stereotypes of a black female – the loyal mammy and the promiscuous temptress. The former represented an "adamantine, kind, unattractive, and sexless woman" and it justified "abusive treatment of black women on the grounds that th...

Often in novels, the life of an author is reflected in his or her literature. For a writer experience can serve not only as a teacher, but also as the foundation of a story line. Some of the most well known authors have used this Romana Clef technique, for example, Charles Dickens in h...

Malcolm Bradbury writes of the novel: "The will to vision, the liberal wish for right reason, the claim of the holiness of the heart's affections – all are consistently confronted with ambiguity." How do you respond to this assessment of Howards End? Perhaps what makes Howard...

The three novels About a Boy and High Fidelity, author Nick Hornby and also Man and Boy by Tony Parsons, together, pay particular attention to the development of the male characters and their relationships with society. Both authors have purposely used characterisation, relationships and structur...

AbstractJohn Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in (1945). He is a novelist of ambition who cherished all works of literature of high imagination as well as craft and experimentation. He turned to literature itself as a source of imagination and aspiration for his fiction.Banville's novels offer ...

The Color Purple-Walker's Portrayal of MenAlice Walker was made responsible for creating a great deal of conflicted opinions and emotions when she wrote and published the novel, The Color Purple. These opinions grew to a greater scale once it transubstantiated to motion picture format, courtesy of S...

Thomas Collins in The Moonstone begins his novel with the traditional portrayal of India; a place filled with adventure, booty, mysticism, savageness, and treachery. There seems to be a pervasive fear through out the British folk through out his novel; a fear of mixing of races, of moral corruption...

1 Love, hate, truth, deception, manipulation, self discovery and murder. Janet Fitch covered all of this and more. White Oleander is an epic tale about a young girl, Astrid, who was ripped away from her mother, Ingrid, at a very young age and forced onto the path of self discovery all by her...

Compare and contrast 'White Teeth' by Zadie Smith and 'Anita and Me' by Meera Syal Zadie Smith's White Teeth is about three different cultures, and three families spanning three generations. Characters include Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, best friends who spend the...

The world of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is a world ruled by chance. From the very opening chapters, where a watchman is accidentally run over by a train at Moscow's Petersburg station, to the final, climactic scenes of arbitrary destruction when Levin searches for Kitty in a forest beset by lightning,...

Novel Analysis Deceiving is the first word that comes to mind when thinking about this novel. Throughout this novel, many things and many people are very deceiving. Mary Higgins Clark, who is a very talented author who resides in Saddle River, New Jersey, wrote "A Cry In The...

Frankenstein Protagonist: The protagonist in the novel is Victor Frankenstein. He is the main character who contends with the conflict in the novel. His decision to create life provides a problem that he attempts to escape but eventually marks his death. Antagonist: The antagonist ...

A Character Analysis on two novels: Lord of the Flies & Of Mice and MenAuthors in the Twentieth Century gravitated toward literature that would strengthen the every day man. Presenting protagonist characters and the events that shape their lives as they are, create a certain amount of excellence to...

Frankenstein Protagonist: The protagonist in the novel is Victor Frankenstein. He is the main character who contends with the conflict in the novel. His decision to create life provides a problem that he attempts to escape but eventually marks his death. Antagonist: The antagonist ...

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -1914, 1915- draws on many details from Joyce's early life. The novel's protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, is in many ways Joyce's fictional double. Like Joyce himself, ...

Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" is largely autobiographical andexpressive of his yearnings. His main character, Anna, exemplifies bothwhat he admires and what he repels in a woman. Anna embodies more thanhuman fullness in a lovable woman, specifically in the mother Tolstoy lostbefore he could b...

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Isabel Allende was born August 2, 1942. Although born in Peru, she was raised in Chile as the daughter of government official. She began her writing career as a journalist and worked throughout South America.Allende begins writing all of her novels on January 8. The tradition began when, on that dat...

It is commonly argued, and not exclusively by sports fans, that competitive sports provide arefuge of clarity and simplicity in a bewilderingly complex and ambiguous world. If it is hard to keeptrack of who did what to whom and why in Srebrenica in 1995 or Shrewsbury in 1402, it is a relief...