Characters are the central point in the novel and are the personality in the book. ... The lens that was chosen for the novel is the feminist lens. ... Symbols play an important role in the novel as they represent growth and trauma. Laurie Anderson uses trees throughout the entire novel to help represent the protagonist. ... The critical lense that was chosen for the novel Speak was the Feminist Theory. ...

• Word Count: 1774
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: High School

English Essay on the Rebecca Novel What does the novel Rebecca have to say about the institution of marriage? ... Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca, written in the mid 1930's, discusses the institution of marriage. ... Setting plays a significant role in the novel and it often enhances the narrator's inner feelings. ... The novel Rebecca portrays marriage as being based on society's expectations rather than love. ... Marriage in the novel is exposed as being based on society and their views. ...

• Word Count: 1085
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

One of the most important qualities of symbolism within this novel is the reference to money and wealth. ... Fitzgerald shows the materialistic objects these individuals own and the amounts of money they have and spend, so that the reader can have a significant understanding of the importance of money in the novel. ...

• Word Count: 349
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

LORD OF THE FLIES by WILLIAM GOLDING. How does lord of the files reflect/ examine a modern society? I think Lord Of The Flies by William Golding reflects how children feel society is run today. It explores society through the eyes and ideals of boys stranded on an island. A modern society accep...

• Word Count: 916
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• Grade Level: High School

It is obvious that through reading novels that characters are essential to the development of the plot of this novel as any other. ... Even though the novel was meant to be serious there is comic relief added to it by the character Jerry Cruncher to relieve the weighty material covered in the novel. The novel takes place in England and France during the late seventeen hundreds. ... The mood of the novel is grim and somber. ... The major theme of the novel is resurrection, which Dickens shows throughout the novel as in Mr. ...

• Word Count: 517
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

At the opening of the Lord of the Flies, a plane, transporting a group of boys from England is attacked and crashes in the jungle. Two boys, Ralph and Piggy, meet and make their way to the beach. Upon their arrival, they discover a conch shell near the water. Using the shell as a trumpet, Ralph summons the remainder of the boys to an assembly. A large number of boys, varying in age, emerged from the jungle, accompanied by Jack Merridew and his choir, marching in military formation. ...

• Word Count: 7266
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Looking for Alibrandi Throughout the novel, Josie is emancipated from herself. ... Throughout the novel Josie is constantly changing her views on people. ... Her views on social status change during the novel and show the truth behind her misconceptions. ... From the beginning of the novel Josie, had set out many fixed plans for the future. ... Later on in the novel Sister Louise punishes Josie for leaving a school walk-a-thon. ...

• Word Count: 701
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Brave New World is an apocalyptic novel, which attempts to predict and define the future. ... In the novel, no one ages or dies because of a disease or life-threatening incident. ... Another prevalent theme in the novel is easy expectancy. ... As a result of this novel, the casual attitudes of modern time has been shown in a different light. ...

• Word Count: 385
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• Grade Level: High School

Pygmalion and My Fair Lady A timeless novel, an Oscar award winning film. ... The content of the novel "Pygmalion", written by George Bernard Shaw, differs in many ways to the Film My Fair Lady. ... Higgins was a key sub-plot in the film as apposed to the novel. ... The purpose of the novel was to shock the audience, and some believe disgust them Shaw wrote to express himself not to impress the audience. ...

• Word Count: 428
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• Grade Level: High School

All the way throughout the novel, Joe also was a type of outsider. ... In the novel Joe could be related to Ralph, who became an outsider during the novel because he was Piggy's friend. ... In the novel A Separate Peace, Gene ended up failing all of the obligations of friendship, so he wasn't a good friend to anybody. ... Finny was loyal to Gene and trusted Gene, who later failed him in the end of the novel. ... In the end of the novel, Simon is a sacrifice. ...

• Word Count: 998
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Novels have always been a dominant artwork due to British literature. For centuries people had entertained themselves by reading different kinds of novel. Pride and Prejudice is one of the first novel written in English language. ... The consciousness of social class is obviously presented by Jane Austen through the different characters and events in the novel. ... The difference of social classes often creates attitudes that are related to the title of this novel. ...

• Word Count: 1942
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

For example, throughout the novel the Socs often arrive in cars while the Greasers walk. ... The rings in the novel represent the physical power that accompanies wealth. ... Throughout the novel the Greasers can be seen to be picked on by high society (the Socs.) ... When the Socs jump Ponyboy at the beginning of the novel, they ask him if he wants a haircut and threaten to cut off his hair. ... In the novel, Pony, Two-bit, Johnny and others are a part of a gang called the Greasers. ...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

As with many stories and novels of the late 18th century, the class of the characters plays a big part in how the characters act and what tragedies and positive events befall them. In the novel "The Awakening- by Kate Chopin, the struggle to act a part of a certain class plays a strain on not only the main character, Edna Pontellier, but also her husband Léonce Pontellier, who is trying to keep up the image that himself and Edna portray in the community. ... Edna's husband Léonce is described throughout the novel as one who is set on holding to what is socially appropriate a...

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

The novel discusses the changing roles of women in the early 1900's and has raised many different questions throughout the years. One of the most controversial discussions of all has been about the ending of the novel where the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, returns to her vacation spot in Grand Isle and drowns herself in the cold ocean. ... Throughout the novel, Edna feels that she has always done what is expected of a woman, including marrying Leonce, a man she did not love. ...

• Word Count: 499
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When I was deciding what kind of approach I should use for the novel of Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, I was reading the author's CV and I was surprised that she published her novel just as some of her other works under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Was it because she wasn't sure of the success which had avoided her till that time, or was it because in her novel Jane Eyre she opened the 13th chamber in question about status of women in society in the beginning of the 19th century? ... I think that this novel compelled the reader to think about this problem. ... Also in the last c...

• Word Count: 975
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Dickens, in the novel Great Expectations, exploits the ambiguity of the term gentleman. ... Early in the novel Pip forms this idea when he meets the beautiful Estella, which makes him desperate to be her social equal. ... Then, there is another quite different standard apparent from early on in the novel, and which Pip eventually realizes: that being a true gentleman is a matter of virtue and honesty, of having a station in life which one can fill with dignity, as Biddy says of Joe. ... In the strict sense of the word, in Pip's eyes, the crass Bentley Drummle is then the only gentleman ...

• Word Count: 1144
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The novel Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, is based on the girl named Griet in Vermeer's painting. ... The novel Secret Daughter describes the panic of Kavita when she has to give her child away, describing in the novel, "She did not dare ask what had happened to her baby. ... In the novel Girl With A Pearl Earring, we see the different roles among the social classes. ... In Secret Daughter, when Sarla recalled the moment when her son Krishnan decided to go aboard and study, saying in the novel, "[s]ixteen family members travelled together, caravan style, in four se...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One idea is the novel shows the carelessness and lack of morals of this period. ... When saying this novel was a dirge for the American dream it was correct since basically the American dream can never be achieved and it's failure is unavoidable. ...

• Word Count: 551
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Authors often portray ideologies of the society of 1920's America in their novels. ... The author uses values, attitudes and beliefs of the different social classes to illustrate The Dream and it's successes and failures during the novel. ... Symbolism in the novel shows how the Dream appears false. ...

• Word Count: 721
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In order to reveal the characters that have different language habits representing different social positions, in the novel, Flags in the Dust, William Faulkner compared the spelling variation of pronunciation in American southern dialect with the standard spelling of the standard pronunciation in American English. Characters can be divided into three types according to their language habits in this novel. ... To make a conclusion, William Faulkner exploited the southern dialect as a means of expressing his literary ideas, and used it as a symbol to represent characters in the novel standing o...

• Word Count: 682
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The dystopian theme, "society is divided into castes or groups with specialized functions" is supported well by the novel "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. "Animal Farm" is a novel from the mid 1950s about a farm of animals that are mistreated and neglected by their owner, Mr. ... This book is similar to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins because both novels feature two social classes where the superior one takes advantage of the lower one. ...

• Word Count: 855
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Time Machine was not merely a novel written to entertain the populous of the late 19th century, but a social criticism of the people in everyday life. ... The traveler notices how there intellectual level seems rather low for people of a far distant future," then one of them asked me a question on the intellectual level of a five year old- (Wells, 31) The traveler further in the novel learns of another species on this strange new world who he only notices to appear at night. ... The Time machine thought to be just a famous science fiction novel is much more than an entertainment piece wri...

• Word Count: 646
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Memories of the Alhambra The novel, Memories of the Alhambra, by Nash Candelaria tells the story of a man's search for the roots of his heritage. The novel takes place some time shortly after World War II. The main characters of the novel are Jose Rafa, his wife Theresa Rafa, and his son Joe Rafa. ...

• Word Count: 826
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• Grade Level: High School

The novel exemplifies the Victorian's desire for upward mobility and dispels the common fantasy that anyone can rise to higher social status if only they would come into a source of wealth. Throughout the novel, the essentially good-hearted characters learn to live with what they have and therefore, find peace and happiness in even the harshest of life's realities. ... There is an overwhelming source of closure seeing how at the beginning of the novel Pip's innocence has him helping out a criminal and by the end, Pip is staying by that same criminals side for his last few moment...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The American economy at this time is at an all time high, and "the novel is appropriately set in [this] get-rich-quick decade that brought about the organization of crime as a concomitant of Prohibition" (Gatsby X). ... Scott Fitzgerald clearly shows through his use of his characters and literary devices in The Great Gatsby, that this is clearly a novel based on how the American Dream is inevitably crushed beneath the harsh reality of life, because of a society which is robbed of its social and moral values, leaving many people's lives without meaning or purpose. ...

• Word Count: 535
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School