1. That eye the sky
Written by Virginia Woolf, the book echoes her poetic style of writing, standing as one of her most revered works. ... " The book waxes poetic in style, creating realm of sensory imagery and a grasp of the wonders of nature. ... Like Jinny, Woolf uses the other characters in the book to represent important points of their own. Another important note is that the book is written entirely through soliloquy. ... The book is not divided by chapters, but by scenes of the sun setting and rising. ...
In contrast, Fyodor Dostoevesky's modern novel, Notes from the Underground, portrays the feeling of every man being on his own. ... This is illustrated throughout the works of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, and Dostoevesky's Notes From the Underground. ... Finally Dostoevesky illustrates modernism through his novel, Notes From the Underground. ... In the first pages of the book, the underground man explains, "I am not at all the jolly sort of person you think I am, or may think I am." ... By the end of the book, when you think he mig...
Golding remembered saying to his wife before writing the novel: 'Wouldn't it be good to write a book about real boys on an island, showing what a mess they'd make?' Furthermore, he once remarked in an interview: 'What I am saying to myself is "Don't be such a fool: you remember when you were a boy, a small boy , how you lived on that island with Ralph and Jack and Peterkin [the main characters in Coral Island - note the transfer even of names to Lord of the Flies]"...I said to myself finally, "Now you are grown up, you are adult; it's taken you a long tim...
Throughout the course of the book, Jem realizes how real life really is. ... When To Kill a Mockingbird begins, Jem is ten years old; at the end of the book, he is thirteen years old. ... After this Jem wrote a thank you note and placed it in the knothole, and the next day it was filled up with cement. ... Radley filled up the tree because he found their note that they left in there. ... Throughout the course of the book, Jem realizes how real life really is. ...
The first line of the book is both important and powerful, for it expresses the death in a way that suggests Meursault's outlook on life. It is important to note that Meursault and his mother did get along, despite his nonchalant attitude toward her death, as he accepts the fact that his own existence, as well as everyone else's, will eventually end. ... Marie takes the role of Meursault's girlfriend in the book. ... It is interesting to note that Salmano and Meursault can get along, despite being so different in the way in which they deal with emotion. ... It is important t...
The factual nature of his first book and the relatively conventional narrative methods of his second give way to a much more imaginative account of Vietnam in Going After Cacciato (1978), the book that launched him to stardom. ... These same concerns are evident in his award-winning short-story cycle The Things They Carried (1990), powerful tales so much like memoirs that O'Brien feels compelled to emphasize in a prefatory note that what follows is "a work of fiction." ... This book suggests that stories often communicate a more accurate notion of the truth than even experience can, which...
In this novella the title reveals the motif of darkness that is strong throughout the story; " absolutely everything in the book is cloaked in darkness" (Spark Notes, "Themes, Motifs and Symbols"). For this motif, darkness has different meanings for different parts of the book, and these different interpretations can be directly related to the title, thereby changing what it represents. ... In this novella there are three main areas that the motif is very strong and for each of these parts of the book the meaning of darkness changes. ...
What I was curios about, regards to Frankenstein and the Web, was how the novel changed (at least for me) based on its physical transformation from book to hypertext. ... First off, when I read the book 3 years ago, I found myself immersed in the story. ... Instead of using quotation marks, the editor of this particular version chose to note speech with smaller fonts, indentation, and different spacing. ... However, I would just like to briefly note that I do enjoy reading fiction that is created specifically for the medium of hypertext. ...
The book is mainly about Sigrid and her husband, Jake. ... Knowing he will come for her, Sigrid packs her bags and leaves a note for Beth, whom is supposed to return home the following day. ... It was her daughter who was narrating at the end of the book. ... The book ends off with Sigrid's daughter talking about her mother. ... In conclusion I enjoyed this book and it was a pleasure to read. ...
I t was this book that allowed Hinton to attend the University Of Tulsa. ... Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. ... In this book by a now Seventeen-year-old author, it almost does the trick. ... A Saturday Review critic expressed a similar view, noting that The Outsider is "written with distinctive style by a teen-ager who is sensitive, honest and observant .""... The pace of the book is the main reason it won so many awards. ...
A conventional book, or play, would have three parts, a beginning, a middle and an end, but "Enduring Love" Is not a conventional book and McEwan is not a conventional writer. ... Other obsessions which have lingered throughout the book are also cured. ... The book began with a picnic, so it's ending with a picnic is another factor which adds to the cathartic atmosphere of the chapter. ... There are many similarities between the final chapter and the first chapter, but the important difference, is the first chapter ends on a dark, pessimistic note, while the final chapter ends optimistica...
This virtue is just one I will focus on, in consideration of length restrictions, but it's important to note that Little Women deals with a broad spectrum of emotions and ideas. ... In Little Women, Alcott accepts this inevitable changeover with the four March sisters maturing as the book progresses. ... Whereas Alcott seeks to grapple with the hardships of everyday life, putting her characters through common situations and conflicts, Barrie writes to escape from reality (class notes, 4/3/03). ... I would argue that he did not have this guide, as his relationships with the other childr...
Note, however, that at the same time he is also effectively illustrating his general thesis. ... When Lawrence says that the "novel is the one bright book of life," he deliberately does nol say that the novel is like life (a simile) or that it is full of life (a description) but that it is the "book of life." ... But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble" This supplement, rather than clarifying the first statement, simply introduces new terms into the original mix, placing in different metaphorical proximity and new combinations word-concepts - "life", "book", "tremul...
So you're the lady whose book started this great war. ... Stowe used passionate and sometimes exaggerated thoughts and stories in the book in an effort to prompt abolitionist action. ... Spinning round, clapping her hands, knocking her knees together, in a wild, fantastic sort of time and finally, turning a summerset or two, and giving a prolonged closing note, as odd and unearthly as that of a steam-whistle, she came suddenly down on the carpet (260). ... The strong female characters that were seen to hold moral superiority over their male counterparts prove this book to be profoundly fe...
When one reads a book the names of the characters don't often stand out as anything of particular interest. ... Golding has several characters in the book that fit under each broad category and as the names show, have specific traits that put them there. ... It is interesting to note, therefore, that the meaning of the name, "Ralph- symbolizes: good, positive leadership, responsibility, dedication, survival, and means counsel'. ... Jack and Roger, together, are the ultimate display of evil that Golding is trying to show in the book and their names are very accrate to their char...
It is worthwhile to note that the style of the two stories was presented in different ways. In the book, the characters were more spirited, in the Victorian sense, lacking that exuberant, while the characters in the movie were just the opposite, as they were far more energetic and spirited in their portrayals of the character. ... The director of the movie though, maintains the comedic nature of the film as a way of allowing the adaptation to address the same themes as the book: class, culture and gender (Wilson 2006: 323-4). The movie has no choice but to be different from the book because i...
This would have been unbelievable, risible even, at the start of the book, but the reader has become so engrossed in the story, so completely immersed by King's telling of it that even if we were to find it doubtful we would not admit it to ourselves. ... For some, we have been on page one of a Stephen King book almost countless times before (the man is a prodigious author), and in a comforting way we know what to expect. ... This is because the majority of the book-buying public are adults, and the majority of adults dislike the sheer difference of the worlds that these authors present. ...
"Melquiades left a set of notes and sketches concerning the processes of the Great Teaching that would permit those who could interpret them to undertake the manufacture of the philosopher's stone." (p.7) Melquiades wrote the parchments, just as Garcia had written this book, deciding exactly what will happen, when it will happen, and how it will happen. ...
His first book was Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. The Red Badge of Courage was written in order to win a bet he made that he could write a book in ten days on a subject he had no first hand experience with. ... Crane's objective when writing this book was not to give a history lesson on the civil war actually the reader must know that he is talking of the civil war because he never actually states that in the novel. ... The first is Jim "the tall soldier- also portrayed as the religious figure in the book, with his initials being J.C. many people see him as a Jesus figure, even his d...
Unfortunately as the book develops, one realizes that the soul reason of his unhappiness is not the need to be humanized, but as a result of jealousy. ... As one of the citizens notes, "They don't know what it's like being anything else. ... Much like Orwell's 1984, the book does not need many dynamic events to scare us. ...
For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ... It again reached the shortlist for the Booker Prize and received various awards. ... A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers Best Book prize, had made the six-book shortlist for the Booker Prize; but that did not impress Greer, who grimaced and said: "I hate this book. ... It's a Canadian book about India. ... If she wanted to make the case that she ...
For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ... It again reached the shortlist for the Booker Prize and received various awards. ... A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers Best Book prize, had made the six-book shortlist for the Booker Prize; but that did not impress Greer, who grimaced and said: "I hate this book. ... It's a Canadian book about India. ... If she wanted to make the case that she ...
I hope we"re being true to the spirit of the book if not to the letter of it." ... One critic, Jane Marcus responds to Potter's statements about the changes made in her version of Orlando saying: "I can't believe anyone who helped with the making of this mockery of genius has ever read the book They were not familiar with the contested meanings critics have seen in Orlando, because it is not even a minor "classic" in England, or they would not have dared to desecrate it." ... It is important to note also that the film lasts a mere ninety-three minutes, which not only suggests numero...
How are both Stoker and Shelley able to horrify their readers, not through graphic violence but through images of the loss of humanity, in Stoker's Dracula' and Shelley's Frankenstein'? In both novels we get a sense of a loss of humanity with the characters, but of which characters? The monst...