I can see why Jerry Spinelli won the Newberry Award for his mondern classic, Maniac Magee. It has everything I like in a young adult book:fascinating characters, believable dialogue, humor, and a strong theme. Maniac (Jeffery) Magee is one of the most refreshing and memorable characters in ...
This is, the bridge between the things that the reader knows is going on, due to the description from the child and what the reader thinks is going on. ... His stories walk the line of myth and reality, and tend to be deficient in the classic beginning, middle, and end structure. ... Of course a story is not the real world, however when reading David Malouf the reader can be tempted question that fact. ... This once again is a beautiful was of reminding the reader of the nostalgic trance of which the sorty was written in. ... Malouf's writing explores this idea so well that the reader is ...
Chopin carried with her an amazing ability to transform the reader into more than just a reader. ... Through her descriptive writing techniques, the reader can understand the book clearly and ultimately being on Edna Pontellier's side. ... It has now become a highly acclaimed classic by many readers and critics. ...
Confusion is also caused via the reader, as the structure of the poem is very unusual. ... The poem structure , the lines are all over the place which confuses the reader which also happens in Ogun it may show the confusion of the poet. ... The objective of this poem is for Moniza to show her readers what it is like to lead a life of two cultures and I think she succeeds in this very well. ... Whereas Edward Kamau Braithwaite relates to confusion of fashion and classic so his viewpoint represented as well. ...
The novel contains all the elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty: the castle, thorns, princess, and a tale of death and awakening from eternal sleep. ... It allowed the reader to be informed of some of the horrors that occurred during World War II, while not being overly depressing like many other novels covering this subject. ...
Not only is Willy Loman not a good father and husband, but he furthers his failure by being a classic anti-hero and by failing to achieve the American Dream. ... The reader therefore strives not to be like the protagonist, but rather, unlike him. ... Any reader would desire to be, rather than all that Willy Loman was, all that Willy Loman was not. ...
Through Lawrence's description of the Morel family, the reader is given a tour through the psychological evolution of the main character, Paul. ... Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, considered by many a classic example of a novel about the Oedipus complex; Lawrence himself claimed not to have read Freud2, and dismissed the theory of complexes as "vicious half-statements of the Freudians"3, but his wife Frieda was greatly interested in psychoanalysis and claimed that they discussed Freud's theories together. " Sons and Lovers should have appeared just as Freud's theories were begi...
