The novel CloudStreet by Tim Winton presents a series of events that can be read as a story. There are important themes evident in the novel that are contributed with the help of the technique of narrative structure. In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... The chapters and sub-chapters in the novel help to shape the events in the novel from a conflict to a resolution and also enabled the readers to see the importance of family and the importance of place. ... In Cloudstreet there are also parts of the no...

• Word Count: 842
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The novel CloudStreet by Tim Winton presents a series of events that can be read as a story. There are important themes evident in the novel that are contributed with the help of the technique of narrative structure. In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... The chapters and sub-chapters in the novel help to shape the events in the novel from a conflict to a resolution and also enabled the readers to see the importance of family and the importance of place. ... In Cloudstreet there are also parts of the no...

• Word Count: 842
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The novel CloudStreet by Tim Winton presents a series of events that can be read as a story. There are important themes evident in the novel that are contributed with the help of the technique of narrative structure. In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... The chapters and sub-chapters in the novel help to shape the events in the novel from a conflict to a resolution and also enabled the readers to see the importance of family and the importance of place. ... In Cloudstreet there are also parts of the no...

• Word Count: 871
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As the novel goes on many inappropriate topics are discussed that many parents disagree with. ... Another topic that could lead a parent to banning this novel is abuse. ... The purpose of abuse in this novel is to show how the adults cope with their struggles. ... Profanity and homosexual jokes and references can be found multiple times in the novel. ... This novel is filled with stereotypes that end up affecting Junior. ...

• Word Count: 823
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The novel starts in the seventies with Naomi a teacher in Northern Alberta finding out that her uncle has died. ... The novel had many strengths and weaknesses. ... I also did not like the way that the novel would drag on. ... I would recommend this novel to all Canadians, but especially to British Columbians. ... Obasan was a good novel to help better understand our Canadian history....

• Word Count: 640
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The thing that sets it apart from our lifestyle is the American culture that the novel is set in. ... One of the main themes in the novel is Novalee being a good mother. ... The theme home runs throughout the novel. ... There are no "traditional families" where it is a mother, father and children in the novel. ... Billie Letts shows, in the novel, that to be a happy family it doesn't have to be traditional. ...

• Word Count: 496
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Literary devices are the most direct way in which an author reinforces the themes of a novel. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is a novel where not all meanings are understood at a literal level. ... It is the place where the Lambs and the Pickles share their lives for most of the novel, and thus assumes great symbolic importance in the novel. ... In the novel, spirituality is present in both the Pickles and the Lamb's families. ... Besides this, components of Aboriginal spirituality are also present throughout the novel. ...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8

In the beginning of the novel, Josie just wanted "to belong to her [Poison Ivy's] world. ... Near the beginning of the novel, are introduced to Michael Andretti twice. ... From the beginning of the novel, we already know the attitude Josie has about her Nonna. ... We learn of John Barton's death near the end of the novel. ... In the end of the novel, Josie has grown and understood herself. ...

• Word Count: 727
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Thirty years later, A Death In The Family, a novel of Agee's childhood would be the cornerstone of his fame. In this novel, Rufus is the protagonist and he spends more time on his view than any other character in the novel. ... Rufus and his father Jay first enter the novel when him and his father go to see a Charlie Chaplin film. ... Agee uses a poetic language to describe Rufus and his experiences in the italicized section of the novel. ... Throughout the novel, Agee explores the memories of Rufus flashbacks. ...

• Word Count: 581
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The main character of the novel "A Room with a View " is Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman who follows the social convensions of the Victorian middle class which she belongs to. ... The main theme of the novel is the comparison between the peculiarity of Italian people and of English people, between two different ways of living. ... Forster sees something deeply wrong in the puritan and merchant society of his time and he underlines that view in his novel: we could find a clear contraposition between Honeychurch's and Emerson's world or, better, view of the world. ... A...

• Word Count: 379
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Briar Rose is a novel with a very dark theme. ... A quote that depicts the dark theme of the novel is: ""Five thousand corpses?" ... Symbolism is a technique greatly used in this novel. ... "The music still played" (Yolen 142) was repeatidly used on one page of the novel. ... It is a very powerful quote that was stressed by repetition in the novel. ...

• Word Count: 809
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel A Painted House, there was not a big focus on education at all. ... Luke's mother only mentions education once throughout the whole novel. ... In fact in the novel he say's "It didn't sound like fun. ... Which Luke's mother and father eventually decided to do at the end of the novel. ... The novel didn't state it, but I assume the Mexicans were uneducated also. ...

• Word Count: 1137
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Through distinctive features within a novel, exploration and an understanding of ideas upon human experience can be encompassed. The novel Ellen Foster written by Kaye Gibbons, portrays the ill-fated life of Ellen, an 11 year old girl mourning the death of her mother and living with the burden of her alcoholic father. ... Subsequently, the unique characterizsation Gibbons illustrates throughout her novel highlights the different aspects and opinions her characters convey giving the audience a view of life within her novel and life within the setting portrayed. ... Within the text Ellen Foster,...

• Word Count: 1059
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Toni Morrison's award-winning novel Song of Solomon is full of very interesting, deep symbolism. Macon Dead III, nicknamed "Milkman," is a very symbolic character throughout the novel. ... Also, Milkman's paternal aunt, Pilate, has an extremely significant and symbolic role in the novel. ... This unreachable goal accurately describes his character throughout the novel. ... Finally, Guitar is also a very symbolic character in Toni Morrison's novel. ...

• Word Count: 890
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This novel is set in Kerala, South India, during the late 1960s. ... The novel, in its own understated way, comments and analyses the transition of the Kerala of the sixties to the Kerala of today. ... I found the novel extremely powerful and at times intimate. This novel is more than insightful, it is indubitably aware of the pain and joy of life. ...

• Word Count: 279
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

I will concentrate on the situation of the daughters in the family, since these are the best described in the novel. ... The statement reflects the situation for women in the novel and during this period. ... Conclusion Marriage is the main subject in the novel, as well as for people of this period. ... The situation of the women in the novel does not allow them any kind of deviant acting since a happy marriage is the only goal for them. Though this is the general atmosphere in the novel, I would like to end my essay with the words of Mr. ...

• Word Count: 1070
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, families are a very important part of the structure of the novel. ... Almost every family mentioned in the novel was either incomplete or was dysfunctional. ... Not one family in this novel was complete. ... This phrase right here shows his feelings for her from early on in the novel. As the novel proceeds, his feelings remain unchanged. ...

• Word Count: 1455
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In his novel "The Kite Runner," Khaled Hosseini uses literary devices such as diction, imagery, and tone to reveal Amir's past and show how it characterizes his future. ... As the novel goes on, Amir is frightened by the choice he made long ago not to save Hassan from being bullied and raped. ... Khaled Hosseini proceeds to characterize Amir and Hassan's relationship throughout the remainder of the novel. ... Amir's tone in the novel is truly changed when he is informed that Hassan had been killed six months prior to his knowledge. ... Amir becomes humble throughout th...

• Word Count: 600
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

EXPANSION OF VIEWPOINT As the novel The Grapes of Wrath progresses, the Joads progress from a concern only for themselves and their own personal welfare to a concern for all the people in the world. ... When we first see him at the beginning of the novel he is mainly concerned for his own welfare. ... Later on in the novel he is more concerned with the welfare of the family. ... Towards the end of the novel the family disintergrates more with the loss of Tom and engagement of Al. ...

• Word Count: 469
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Benjy narrates the first chapter of the novel, even though he cannot talk. ... Jason Compson has many different personalities in the novel. ... Quentin ends up committing suicide in the novel. ... Quentin says strange things throughout his narration in the novel. ... The novel ends right after this occurs. ...

• Word Count: 911
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, "Song of Solomon," Tony Morrison tells a story full of strange occurrences and unbelievable feats. ... However, I believe these extraordinary things are to be taken as actual occurrences, as there are many told, and in fact add to the important details in the novel. One such paranormal event that occurs in the novel is told from the perspective of Freddie. ... Age appears not to be a cause of death during this novel as one can live out their will to live as long as they would like. ... Throughout the novel, the most obvious theme and focus of the book comes together through ano...

• Word Count: 705
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Gift I am presenting an analysis of The Gift, a fictional novel by Danielle Steel. ... I greatly recommend this novel for anyone to read, as it affected my emotions in several ways. ... Life is a gift revealed in this novel that evokes many emotional tears and lots of laughter. ... The novel ends with a surprise gift to that family. ... I believe Danielle Steel intends for the reader to recognize three separate "gifts" in this novel. ...

• Word Count: 1146
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The novel Ragtime, written by E. ... The other family consists of Mameh, Tateh and their little girl Sha; a Jewish family who live in the lower East Side in the beginning of the novel. These two familes meet many new intresting people throughout the novel that influence their lives greatly. ... The novel opens at the house of the upper class family. ... In this novel, it basically shows that hardships come upon any family. ...

• Word Count: 937
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

That Eye The Sky Review The Novel That Eye The Sky by Tim Winton is about the Flack family consisting of Sam and Alice, their children, and Tegwyn and Morton. ... In the opening scene of the novel, we find out straight away that Sam had a car crash and is in a coma. Due to this incident, gradually through out the novel we find the details of each character and how this incident gradually pulled the family apart. ...

• Word Count: 271
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

The end of each short chapter leaves us eager to turn the next page, which makes this novel a great one for teachers to read aloud. But teachers aren't the only ones who'll enjoys this novel. It's written for kids eight to twelve, but the novel's humor and suprisingly mature treatment to two of the most signigicant of society's ills, racism and homelessness, make for a satisfying read for anyone. ...

• Word Count: 328
• Approx Pages: 1