Novel Essays

Movie productions that are based on novels are usually different and that goes for the movie, Lord of the Flies, as well, which is based on the novel of the same title by William Golding. In the novel, the author captures the readers’ attention by the descriptive and provocative plot, …

In The Princess Bride, the narrative hook comes within the first few pages of the novel when we find out that Westley, Buttercup’s lover, will be going on a voyage to find his fortune. Buttercup tells him that she fears she will never see him again, enticing the reader. Soon …

1. Mark Twain said of Huck Finn : “it is a novel where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat. The conscience – that unerring monitor—can be trained to any wild thing you want it to approve.” In light of these comments, trace …

“The best of humanity is possible even in the most trying of circumstances.” For the novel study, I read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas which is a holocaust based novel written by John Boyne. I believe that the statement above means many things, but I think that mostly it …

In literature, how an author chooses to construct their words is very important. They need to use them in a way that will allow the reader to take more meaning away from it, and see them as more than just words on paper. Literary devices are what give literature a …

Maggie O’Farrell’s novel tells us about the girl Fionnuala who is experiencing the problems and dilemmas associated with becoming an adult. She has a mother who is distraught over how her own youth and is therefore trying to keep her daughter back while Fionnuala is in love with the boy …

Ernest Hemingway’s choice of title for his novel, A Farewell to Arms, perfects the full meaning of the book. This classic love story shows the typical Romeo and Juliet scenario. Lieutenant Henry, an American ambulance driver for the Italian front, falls head over heels for Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. …

‘The child is father to the man’ Morpurgo’s portrayal of the characters in Private Peaceful as children establishes what they will be like as adults in difficult conditions especially at war. Discuss this statement, including the extent to which you agree. The novel ‘Private Peaceful’ written by Michael Morpurgo, is …

In novels, the author creates a focus on a relationship – between enemies or friends, a parent and child, or husband and wife. In the two texts, The Book Thief, and The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas this is a aspect that is featured in both, the relationship between children. …

At the end of the 18th century a new literary genre started developing all over Europe: the Novel. It was a revolution whose roots were as old as the other literary genres. In fact, this new way of writing borrowed many narrative forms from other genres, such as diaries, biographies …