The attitudes the characters have towards the blacks are relevant to the time period. ... Luster, a boy that works for the Compsons, is looking for a quarter he lost. ... Jason rides around town searching for her and the show boy she ran off with. ... Resolution: Jason never finds Quentin or the show boy she runs off with. ... The novel ends right after this occurs. ...
The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel about a nameless father and son who are traveling to the coast in the south. ... Cormac McCarthy is an American writer known for stylistically complex novels, such as The Road and Blood Meridian. ... "The Road was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006 and, in 2007, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Since then, the novel has been adapted to film, and was released in 2009" (Mote 2). ... The boy pleaded to his father to not take all he had but the father refused, "I don't think he should have anything" (McCarthy...
The novel Ragtime, written by E. ... There are two main families in the novel, one consisting of Mother, Father and their little boy who are part of the upper class society in New Rochelle. ... In this novel the narrator is anonomyous but left up to the reader it could be the upper class little boy, Tateh's little girl or perhaps both. ... Back in the upperclass family, Mother finds a baby buried alive in thier backyard; she finds out it is a black washwoman named Sarah's baby. ... A black man named Coalhouse Walker stops by the family's home in New Rochelle, asking ...
His parents, James Hughes and Carolina Mercer Langston, separated when he was a very young boy in 1903. ... At night they would read him stories from such works from popular black authors such as W.E.B. ... They would also tell him stories of black history, and encourage him to try to make positive changes someday. ... In his autobiographical novel, Hughes said as a young boy, "For the first time loneliness strikes me, strikes me terribly settling down in a dull ache round about, in the dusk." ... Even as a young boy he was ready to take chances in life. ...
Before his death, he was one of the Seven Days, the small group of men devoted to keeping the balance of blacks and whites equal, which is one of the causes of his desire for an escape from life. As he says in his note, he had become one of the Seven Days for love of black people, not for any hate of whites. ... Instead, the boy had been dropped at a house and taken in by an Indian family. ... The novel, Song of Solomon, is one of self-discovery for Milkman and the subsequent acceptance of the risks of truly living, of taking life as it is and making the most of it, of 'flying', as M...
George Johnston portrays this time in his novel "My Brother Jack", through the eyes of Davy Meredith, a young boy, (who in turn is portrayed unmistakably as a young Johnston), who develops into a young man. The cultural influences of this era shaped the men that both the young boy and his older brother, Jack, developed into. ... The Depression in Australia, as described by Davy, came slowly at first, but then hit with all the ferocity of a "slide of earth". " It was like a great river flooding or changing its course, the way the depression came-the insidious creeping movement of dark, strong...
In each novel, the main character experiences suffering, that leads to the maturity of each of them by the conclusion of the stories. ... Potok begins his novel with a baseball game that Reuven is playing in against a school of Hasidic Jews. ... Danny does not understand why his father treats him this way until the end of the novel when Reb explains to both Danny and Reuven his reasoning. ... In this group of workers there happened to be a young man by the name of Hank Spruill who would change the way life was in the small town of Black Oak while he was there. ... Besides witnessing the murder...
