Cormac McCarthy uses a post-apocalyptic story of a man and his son in his novel The Road to do just this. ... This shiny object covered in the black enamel of this meaningless world can be chiseled away and return it to its original value of meaning. ... Throughout the entire novel the boy, the man, the woman, and every single other character they meet remain nameless. ... Both the film and the novel, The Road, depict a dark desolate wasteland. ... In the novel the use of nameless characters and McCarthy's word choice provide the reader with silver lining to the otherwise miserable and pe...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, Roots followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. ... Binta then gives birth to a boy that brings great joy to the whole family that was present. ... The mother decides to call him baby boy till the Omaru decides on the name in eight days. Omaru asks the chief weather to name the boy based on a person or a thing. ... He then finds out that he would be sailing a new ship called the Lord Liganear that would have a cargo consisting mostly of black slaves. ...

• Word Count: 677
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel "Weep not Child" by Ngugi Wa Thiong"o, the young boy, Njoroge, grows up in the mist of the Mau Mau war and the conflict between the African natives and the British colonial rulers. ... In this novel, Nganga and Mr. ... Njoroge and his family illustrate this in the novel. ... Howlands could make herself cheap enough to go with black men for money? ... In his opinion as stated a white women is above a black male therefore, she must lower herself to him be with him. ...

• Word Count: 1124
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The novel Things Fall Apart was published in 1958. The novel introduces an Ibo community free of outside influences during the 1880's. ... The Oracle was so powerful that a young boy, Ikemefuna, was sacrificed because it said it must be so. ... The first European appears in the village about two-thirds into the novel. ... The new religion caused Blacks to reject and become ashamed of both their culture and themselves. ...

• Word Count: 1008
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This skill, foreshadowing, is where the writer will give the reader a clue or hint to a scene or action that will occur later in the novel, passage, or any of the literature. ... A few examples of the downhill spiral the book takes, would be Okonwo kills Ikemefuna, the boy that comes to live with him and his family. ... They did not refer to the Africans as people or human beings, instead they referred to them as "black limbs" or other names (Achebe). ...

• Word Count: 1332
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School