Novel Essays

The entire novel takes the span of one Saturday afternoon, from 5:05 PM until 12:48 AM the following day, approximately eight hours. Through Cooney, we are able to enter the minds of the major characters in the beginning of the novel – from the rescuers to those boarding the plane …

Rice Without Rain – Character Essay- Nedmanoon Angkulprasert ‘Rice Without Rain’ by Minfong Ho is an extremely realistic novel, which portrays the way of life for traditional East Asian communities. Minfong Ho sets out through writing ‘Rice Without Rain’ “to understand what happened to the Thai student movement during 1973-76, …

Quinn’s Religion In Daniel Quinn’s novel Ishmael, religion clearly plays an important role with respect to the central theme of the story. Quinn’s broad definition of the term accurately demonstrates our unconditional acceptance of culture today, as well as the problems that arise from regarding a culture that is not …

For society to be fully functional it requires of system of organization. If you look at every powerful nation of the world, past and present, you notice there was an organized structure within the society. That is one of the points that Montesquieu emphasizes in his novel, Persian Letters. Through …

Throughout the centuries, people have often wished they could somehow know what would happen in the future before it actually happened. Sometimes, however, certain consequences are hinted at ahead of time, giving you a chance to take care of it before it is too late. In his book 1984, George …

Throughout her career, the South African novelist Nadine Gordimer has wanted to explore the terrain where personal interests, desires and ambitions encounter (and, not rarely, contend with) the demands and trials of a politically active life. She has had a keen eye for the exceedingly precarious moral situation of her …

Harper Lee, author of the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” exploits various textual features which are used to make characters like Aunt Alexandra marginalized. Throughout the novel she is illustrated as a foil to Atticus’s attitudes and beliefs; additionally she symbolizes high-class society during the Great Depression. These techniques position …

“They beat me, Manolin…they truly beat.” The first thing that one should consider when addressing this question is what does it mean to be beaten? Beaten in this context should not be interpreted literally as it actually means to be defeated. Bearing this in mind would I agree with Santiago’s …

Throughout the novel Lord of the Flies and the film “Castaway” one of the main themes is most certainly seen as isolation, both social and physical. Isolation could be defined as the “feeling of being alone, or disliked,” as well as “a state of separation between persons or groups,” which …

In the short story “Hindspring” by Margaret Drabble, the author uses a great deal of imagery to create atmosphere in her story. Imagery in her story is used to create different feels in her writing. An example of imagery in Margaret’s story is her description of sound. She uses these …