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Koontz's Novels
617 wordsCritique of Winter Moon In Winter Moon by Dean Koontz a cloudy Los Angeles, California day is shattered when a hot Hollywood director turns a city street into a fiery abyss. A heroic police officer, Jack Mc Garvey, is badly wounded in the inferno and will not be able to walk for months. Little does Jack know that a series of events will lead him and his family to a ranch in Montana. On that isolated ranch they discover their destiny in a horrific encounter with a ruthless and puzzling enemy from...
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Heller's Catch 22
1,130 wordsIn Catch-22, Joseph Heller reveals the perversions of the human character and society. Using various themes and a unique style and structure, Heller satirizes war and its values as well as using the war setting to satirize society at large. By manipulating the "classic" war setting and language of the novel Heller is able to depict society as dark and twisted. Heller demonstrates his depiction of society through the institution of war (i.e. it's effects and problems during and after war). In the...
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Novel
1,024 wordsAfter World War II, somewhere in the 1960's and certainly by the 1970's, writers began to produce novels that resembled former novels but that broke the historical comparison or the communal memory of the traditional novel. Such novels contain plots and characters that are deeply infused with a particular national identity-national identity is their point, so to speak; yet such novels, rather than being limited to the national readership that shares this identity, are translated almost immediate...
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Annie John By Jamaica Kincaid
781 wordsJamaica Kincaid: the Picasso of Literature "Far out, to the horizon, the colour of the water is navy-blue; nearer, the water is the colour of the North American sky... the water is pale, silvery, clear, so clear... ". Kincaid, A Small Place This tropical heaven of the Carribean island Antigua serves as a physical and symbolic backdrop for the "paradise turned hell". Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid. is not a book which will appeal to younger reader's. They will not be able to sort through the layer...
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Novel With Several View Points Faulkner
2,408 wordsWilliam Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi where he became a high school drop out and was forced to work with grandfather at a bank. In 1925 Faulkner moved to New Orleans and worked as a journalist, here he met the American Sherwood Andersen, a famous short-story writer. Anderson convinced Faulkner that writing about the people and places he could identify with would improve his career as a writer. After atrip to Europe, Faulkner began to write of the fictitious Yoknapatawpha County, w...
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Writing The Poisonwood Bible
802 wordsIn the three books, The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees and Pigs In Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver chose to use the stylistic device of multiple narrators as a creative way to carry out the themes of the novel and establish the tone. This device is used extensively in The Poisonwood Bible in which Kingsolver states that when she was preparing to write, she knew that she wanted to use this structure, because it was it was "necessary for the theme of this novel even though I knew it would be quite di...
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Ted Needs Leo
1,566 wordsA Critical Analysis of the Opening Pages of Chapter Nine from The Go-Between by LP Hartley The beginning passages of chapter nine are illustrative of the plot intensifying and depict a heightened relationship between Leo and Ted Burgess. They are symbolically indicative of the calm before the storm. The written use of imagery, metaphor and symbolism contribute to the novel as a whole and add a richness of meaning. The continuation of natural imagery attributed to Ted allows the reader to once ag...
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Narrator Levanter And Author Kosinski
1,724 wordsA Date with Kosinski Being James Bond is every man's dream. The beautiful women, fancy cars, dangerous journeys, and beautiful women. Many men would love to be in his place where all the danger and excitement take place. We don't have that capability to become an international spy, but in the novel, "Blind Date" by Jerzy Kosinski, we are exposed to a life similar to that of James Bond. He goes through secret negotiations. Jerzy Kosinski's use of words greatly contributes to the novel's excellenc...
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Pauline And Cholly's Actions As Adults
1,143 wordsToni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye, presents the lives of several impoverished black families in the 1940's in a rather unconventional and painful manner. Ms. Morrison leads the reader through the lives of select children and adults, describing a few powerful incidents, thoughts and experiences that lend insight into the motivation and. behavior of these characters. In a somewhat unconventional manner, the young lives of Pauline Williams Breedlove and Charles (Cholly) Breedlove are presented ...
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First Novel
1,243 wordsThe Vagabond, written by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, is a story of romance set in turn-of-the-century Paris and several provincial towns. The novel was published in France in 1911 and later published in 1955 for the English audience. The Vagabond is recognized as one of Colette's best-known pre-war work, her post-war works being better known. The novel definitely sits high on history's literary shelf. Using such elements as style, technique, theme, an uncomplicated theme and supernumerary charact...
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Faulkner's Intent With Vardaman
581 wordsWilliam Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, with its multiple narrators and hackish language, can sometimes prove to be convoluted and rather confusing. The narrators, unfortunately, are no less confusing. Their language aside, each individual personality serves to put a spin on the bias that the information is delivered with, and, in speaking to each other, they further confuse the reader, as their individual motives are, generally speaking, unmentioned. However, there is one character who manages to cu...
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Of Crichton S Novels
2,039 wordsFor almost three decades, Michael Crichton has written novels that appeal to his reader's imagination and take a firm hold of their pocketbooks. Crichton's writing stands out as much as his 6 = 9 frame. He has become one of the most widely read and bought science fiction authors of the past three decades. From his first novel The Andromeda Strain, which he published while in medical school, to his most recent Airframe, Crichton has captivated his readers and left them craving more. What makes Cr...
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Killer Angels Summary This Outstanding Historical Novel
717 wordsThe Killer Angels Joseph E. Seguin Ms. We isU.S. History AP 5 December 1996 THe Killer Angels Opinion and Commentary In the novel The Killer Angels, Mr. Shaara's historical accuracy is unquestionable. He has written this fabulous (Pulitzer Prize winning) novel. Although the heroic suicidal charge of the 10th Minnesotans on the second day of the battle was left out, Shaara focuses on Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine which makes up for the lapse. It is safe to say that no oth...
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Reader Question
540 wordsJohn Fowles gives one a glimpse into insanity in, The Collector. A lonely, single man comes into some money, and suddenly his fantasies can become reality. He collects butterflies, killing them and posing them in little glass plates. Is he evil? It is hard to say, and as one reads the lines are blurred and morals questioned. Is that which is wrong always done with bad intentions? Frederick, the main character, is in love with a beautiful, young girl who he has never spoken to. They lived in the ...
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Jimmie And Mrs Little
447 wordsThe name of my book is Good-bye, Chicken Little, and was written by Betsy Byars. Betsy Byars has written over fifty books for young people. Her first book was published in 1962 and since then she has published regularly. She also won the Newbery Medal in 1971 and the American Book Award in 1981. Good-bye, Chicken Little is a book written for younger readers which I consider to be an adventurous book. Good-bye, Chicken Little takes place in Morgantown, West Virginia. The story is written from a m...
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Lipsyte's Novel
397 wordsWalking, talking, living dull... The Subject SteveS am LipsyteFlamingo 9.99, pp 272 A caption writer for silicon companies, Steve, the narrator of Sam Lipsyte's satirical novel, is a sardonic, self-deprecating man in his late thirties given to faking fits in order to get out of any difficult situation. He is a careless parent whose daughter, when he calls her to break the news that he's dying, replies: 'Please, Daddy, don't say that. What if this is the last time we speak' and hangs up. Steve's ...
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George Eliot In Her Novel Silas Marner
2,444 wordsSilas Marner and Wuthering Heights are two novels in which the past is very important in an understanding of the circumstances of the present. Both novels deal with the thwarting of passions and their deformation into ugliness. Yet both novels are also concerned with ways in which evils and wrong choices can be made right as time passes. In both novels the past informs the present, and through actions of characters willing to address the past, the evils of the past can be alleviated or resolved ...
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Mass Of Bullet Bone And Brain Tissue
943 wordsDuring his military career Major Harold Coyle witnessed the gruesome power of war, and took these experiences to write the riveting novel Trial by Fire. Trial by Fire is the telling of a war between Mexico and The United States of America. In the course of the novel the death, the words, the sights, and the feelings that both sides of the war experience slap the reader in the face. On the Mexican's side, the reader sees the war through the mind of Col. Alfredo Guajardo, commander of the Mexican ...
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Janet's Relationship With Ted Change
1,523 wordsThe novel All Families are Psychotic written by Douglas Coupland starts off as a pessimistic novel but slowly evolves into an optimistic novel through the dynamic family relationships that grow throughout the story. The estranged and new relationships that are formed in the novel demonstrate the beauty that exists within families: the intimate moments shared between father and son and husband and wife. These touching moments in the book and the fairytale ending leave the reader with an optimisti...
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Pieces As The Reader
1,402 wordsBoth set in the midst of South American culture, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Garcia Marquez and 'Ficciones' by Jorge Luis Borges, attempt to illustrate the nature that is humanity. While on the whole both stories are presented differently, similar factors were used to emit a similar feeling from the reader. With focus on the last few chapters on 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and on one short story in Ficciones, "The Secret Miracle", a more concise explanation can illustrate the differen...
