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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve the beauty." As people who encounter different environments and situations every day, it is impossible not to change. It is inevitable even when it isn't welcomed. Just as the caterpillar morphs i...
George Knightley is the only character in the book who openly sees Emma for who she really is, and in this regard "he acts as a stand-in for Austen's and the reader's judgments of Emma- (spark notes). ... Elton's comments to Emma about Harriet, this is the climax of the book, and contains the biggest misunderstanding of them all. ...