Novel Essays

Throughout history man has made many journeys, both far and wide. Moses’ great march through the Red Sea and Columbus’s traversing the Atlantic are examples of only a couple of men’s great voyages. Even today, great journeys are being made. Terry Fox’s run across Canada while fighting cancer is one …

Professor Exchange: The chapter alternately follows two planes moving in the opposite direction from shortly after their take-off to the moment of their landing. It is the 1st of January 1969 and two English literature professors are changing their places for six months. One goes to the State University of …

Adapting a novel into a screenplay is an extremely difficult prospect as the film has to convert the image that was captured over several hundred pages into a few hours of video. Challenging as this endeavour may be, few novels present as daunting a challenge as La Confidential, written by …

The novel, through page one to ten could be thought of as made of mainly three parts. In the beginning, the first person character, 10-year-old David Strorm describes his lasting dream of a city full of buildings, streets and traffic. The place of his dream seemed very strange to him …

The novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and says it with great artistry. During 125 years that have passed from the day of publication of “Alice in Wonderland” it became clear that his …

“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”” This is a quote comes from the short story, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The story itself …

A foundational text in the discussion of postcoloniality is Edward Said’s Orientalism. Said identifies how the western world “spoke” for and represented the Orient, while the Orient was kept silent to maintain and allow this position of power for the westerner. In Said’s Orientalism, he gives a brief history of …

Setting is a description of where and when the story takes place. •What aspects make up the setting?◦Geography, weather, time of day, social conditions? •What role does setting play in the story? Is it an important part of the plot or theme? Or is it just a backdrop against which …

Ray Bradbury uses figurative language in Fahrenheit 451 by using the terms “alive yet not alive” and “dead but not dead.” By using these terms Bradbury is saying that things are alive when they are not, but in reality they are just machines. Bradbury also says things are dead, but …

How Does Stevenson’s writing here make London sound so sinister? The first fog of the season straight away makes London sound bad because when you think of fog it’s not a great weather to have and it contributes to London sounding sinister. Also the streets are dingy which make the …