Throughout The Novel College Essays Samples For Students

The Portrayal of Adulthood in The Chocolate War by Robert Comier and Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher

The Chocolate War is about the bravery and steadfastness of Jerry, the protagonist, in refusing to engage in a depraved years-long tradition at Trinity High School carried out by The Vigils. The Vigils order students at the high school to complete various challenging tasks often with harrowing outcomes. The Vigils ordered Jerry to refuse helping out at the high school’s yearly chocolate auction despite the fact that they assured Brother Leon, the coordinator of the event, that they, including Jerry, would help sell chocolates. Jerry’s task was supposed to last for ten days, after which he would be ...

Analysis of White Noise by Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo’s White Noise is a post-modern American novel that revolves around Jack Gladney; the professor and founder of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college called the College-at-the-Hill. The novel has been credited as an accurate portrayal of the American way of life. Leonard Orr (2007 7) in Don DeLillo’s White Noise: A Reader’s Guide observed that White Noise is “realistic in its portrayal of American life than his other works.” Similarly, Jayne Anne Phillips (1985 n.p) in White Noise by Don DeLillo expressed a similar sentiment when she noted that the novel was timely, “precisely because of its ...

Romanticism is an element that has played a crucial role in the development of literature from the 18th century. This philosophy has had a noticeable effect on many literature works including Nathaniel’s The Scarlet Letter. It is easy to identify its influence in the novel because it is very clear that Nathaniel Hawthorne was a supporter of romanticism and that is the reason he presents many issues with the philosophy of romanticism in the novel. The Scarlet Letter is a gothic romanticism novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne during the romanticism period. The book features the story of two ...

Dishonesty is one of the most challenging things that occur in relationships. It is so challenging that it brings out a sign of betrayal to the relationship, which happens especially when the relationship incorporates a man, and a woman who intend to marry in the near future or are already into marriage. Dishonesty and betrayal breaks relationships by cheating, lying, and manipulating. Relationships cannot be built on lies. Neither can it survive without trust and respect. Ideally, morals are among the most important elements of life according to the themes of the American dream. Engagement of this behavior fully discourages the art ...

This essay is about to tell us how do the fantastic and fictional worlds and images correspond to the real life of the living people, how their culture and traditions are depicted in the works of the artists, writers and film directors and how the images of art pieces reflect and form the life of modern people. Here we are going to describe the outstanding examples of the modern literature and find out how they highlight the world and the people with their beliefs and hopes, their feeling and thoughts. These will be the "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by ...

Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 is arguably one of the most influential books of its time. Written during a very difficult period in Heller’s life, the novel captures what was to be a pivotal moment for American culture, as well as American history. Catch-22 follows Captain John Yossarian as he peels back the traditional heroism of war to reveal sheer madness. With heavy notes of satire, Heller presents several different themes throughout the novel as we see Yossarian thrust into the insane trappings of a real catch-22, sometimes masking the symbolism of what the book really stands for, which is what war ...

Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion is a novel which explores the complex nature of the manner in which humans react to trauma and how it affects their perception of what the truth is as well as how this truth continually changes throughout one’s personal history. The themes of trauma, history and truth are omnipresent throughout the novel and combine together to shape the destinies of the two protagonists; Henri and Villanelle.
Henri in The Passion suffers from the trauma of having partaken in the Napoleonic Wars, and witnessing the deaths of many comrades and friends due to the ...

Ibsen exposes the life experiences of his main female character Nora to show the way patriarchal societies deprive women their freedom by suppressing their views, treating them like children, and through repressive gender roles. Nora’s life and her relationship with her husband, Torvald, is a typical reflection of the importance of self-determination for women within the marriage institution. It is apparent that when a person’s freedom is limited either by choice or by chance, one is not able to establish a relationship based on equality with a partner or other people within the society. The author provides ...

RESEARCH PAPER: THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

Introduction
The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God authored by Zora Neale Hurston is a culmination of different themes touching on matters love and hatred, life and death, murder, and discovery of self-identity. Ultimately, the novel is packed with many themes and issues that affect the society woven to bring the message dexterously home (Lester 20). In essence, the novel is a classic that helps the reader to reflect about specific historical epochs in the way Hurston travels through time to explain issues of culture, tradition, love and pursuit for identity. It can be argued that the novel describes ...

The novel Rain of Gold is a book that has widely reflected on two major vices that have taken root in the society: social inequality and discrimination. Social inequality is the biased treatment of various individuals based on life circumstances, mostly those they have no control over, such as race and gender. Discrimination is treating people or a group of individuals differently from other people or groups, mostly unfairly and basing it on stereotypes. The novel Rain of Gold sought to promote social inequality and discrimination through the restrains faced by two families coming from one culture and into ...

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Aspects of magic and the supernatural play a key role in both “The Fourth Century” and “Death in the Andes." The use of magic and the supernatural however differs in the two books. The Fourth Century by Edouard Glissant tells the story of a young boy named Mathieu Beluse, who seeks to discover to country’s long lost history. The common expectation would be for him to look for information literature texts or other recorded materials, but the young boy is aware that the recorded versions are hugely distorted and are, therefore, not accurate. Here, aspects of magic and ...

In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway adopts the use of simple language to explore the ravages of World War I through his main character Jake. Interestingly, Hemmingway does not succumb to the temptation of using colorful adjectives to describe his characters and the events narrated in the novel. Instead, Hemmingway uses short and direct phrases that leave the reader in suspense. In addition, the style makes the writer omit many details that would have otherwise been useful in dissecting his characters as well as the themes and motifs discussed in the novel. Nonetheless, the style is likeable for ...

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee in Post-Modernism Perspectives
In the novel Disgrace, the author specifically focuses on the disgrace issue among the characters. One can see that the book’s title is reflected in most of the characters in the story. However, disgrace is depicted from different perspectives on the characters. He also uses animals, and in this case dogs to symbolize several things.
J.M. Coetzee published the novel ‘Disgrace’ in 1999. The setting of the story is the post-apartheid period in South Africa. The novel illustrates more than the contemporary features of South Africa. The author ...

Introduction

There have been several wars that have been fought in the world in the last few centuries. The most prominent of these wars have to be the two World Wars which took place in the first half of the 20th Century. The First World War was fought between 1914 and 1918 while the Second World War took place between 1939 and 1945. War is never good for the society and brings about total chaos, destruction and loss of human life and property. It affects those humans who are the war front greatly and generally damages them psychologically. This is ...

Introduction

The novel “The Life of Pi” by Yann Martel tells the story of one boy’s adventures in the Pacific Ocean with an Orangutan tiger. Pi is an Indian boy who lives with his parents in India. His parents own a zoo and, therefore, according to Indian standards, they are considered to be quite affluent. Being the common religion in India, Pi is brought up as Hindu but during his teenage years, he becomes interested in the other two religions that characterize his nation, Islam and Christianity. It is here that he makes the constant decision to follow all the ...

The realities of slavery run throughout Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Two aspects of those realities are particularly striking. First, the related notions of “home” and “community,” words which Nancy Jesser points out are “frequently uttered with reverence” (Jesser 1999), were outside of the control of slaves, a fact that no one knew better than the slaves themselves. A further reality of slavery driving the narrative within Beloved concerns the human impulse to protect those one loves, an impulse that leads to so many of the episodes of conflict throughout the novel. These two varieties of desire provide extraordinary insights into ...

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The reality of the matter is that gender discrimination has been a matter debated upon for too long with little action emanating from such debates. As a social phenomenon, gender discrimination has great sociological significance and concern. While this broadly reflects the discrimination of either gender, the discrimination against women and female children is particularly pervasive the world over. The novel The God of small things reminds the reader of this stark reality, and goes further to help one fathom the dynamics, intricacies and the inept results of the social vice.
Gender discrimination takes many forms and manifests ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of “The Great Gatsby”, develops his characters in such a way that that they seem to contradict each other’s personality traits. Such a set up essentially allows the readers of the novel to notice and understand these characters in an almost equal magnitude. The best depiction in this set up is brought put in the two major characters in the novel, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. The two characters’ traits are hugely contradictory of each other. On one hand, Nick Carraway is a character who exhibits great development throughout the story while Jay Gatsby is a man ...

Monster Madness

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Theme of Isolation and Loneliness
The themes of isolation and loneliness are illustrated in Beowulf through Grendel’s character. Grendel felt excluded and isolated from the humans because he was living alone with his mother and this made him feel that he does not belong to the community. The loneliness and isolation Grendel felt made him the monster he was, he desired to belong to the humans in the community but they isolated him. The exclusion from the rest of the community pushed him into becoming a hideous and cruel beast with a hard heart and thirst ...

Beowulf

Beowulf is an epic poem based on a great hero called Beowulf. He decides to help Hrothgar who was under attack by the monster Grendel. He defeats Grendel plus his mother and becomes king. After sometime, Beowulf dies after being badly wounded by a dragon which he defeated. Beowulf travelled in great places and distances while fighting against supernatural beings and demons.
The themes of isolation and loneliness are illustrated in Beowulf through Grendel (Streissguth 78). Grendel felt excluded and isolated from the humans because he was living alone with his mother and this made him feel that he does ...

"As a writer, after getting over the idea that I had to know only one truth, I realized that my problem is that I have too much truth to tell rather than too little." --Maxine Hong Kingston

These words of author Maxine Hong Kingston reflect a very unique take on postmodernism. According to the tenets of postmodernism, there is no real absolute truth; the subjective nature of the world allows for everyone to have a different perspective on reality and "truth." With this in mind, Kingston speaks to a unique capability for authors and writers to express this ambiguity of truth; since all ...

Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help tells the story of several women living in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s. The novel centers around Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, two hardworking African-American maids who constantly struggle with discrimination and racism as a result of their environment. With the help of a young white woman named Skeeter, these two women (and many other black maids in the area) get to tell their story while challenging conceptions of their intelligence and worth as human beings. Throughout the novel, racism is shown to be a deeply entrenched part of Southern life, and the difficulties these maids ...

Introduction – a novel for all seasons

This is a classic novel set in 1970’s England in the context of the Bangladeshi community and how this is integrated up to a point with English society. Identity is a crucial issue throughout the novel and for example when the novel starts we observe Archie a 47 year old man whose wife walked out on him attempting to gas himself in his car due to the fact that his disturbed Italian wife walked out on him. Here we have the identity of Archie who could be seen as a failed persona but who has also had his hopes and dreams shattered so ...

One important theme in Ragtime is the difference between the rich and the poor. Discuss how Doctorow illustrates this problem throughout the novel.

The plot of Doctorow’s Ragtime is utilised by the author to vigorously present his views about many turn of the century issues. Most prevalent of these issues is the divide between the rich and the poor and the social tension which this causes whilst also tying in the concepts of race and power into the mix. Through his combination of fiction and history, Doctorow is able to present a realistic sense and feel for how this ...