According to F.R Leavis in his book The Great Tradition', a book can only deserve literary recognition if it has "serious, moral concern". ... The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... Sachar's use of short, yet condensed, chapters ensures students will find the book a very fast, but also informative read, making it very difficult to put the book down, and therefore creating a very addictive read. However, the short chapters, do not retract meaning from the p...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to F.R Leavis in his book The Great Tradition', a book can only deserve literary recognition if it has "serious, moral concern". ... The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... Sachar's use of short, yet condensed, chapters ensures students will find the book a very fast, but also informative read, making it very difficult to put the book down, and therefore creating a very addictive read. However, the short chapters, do not retract meaning from the p...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It can be observed in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man that James Joyce changes his narrative voice and style of writing throughout the book. In the first chapter, when Stephen is still very young at Conglowes College, the book is narrated in a stream of consciousness, without well structured paragraphs or a clear purpose to some statements. ... This childlike writing style does make the book feel more realistic, but it is not what makes it so great in the eyes of scholars. ... Stephen's references to famous scholars and authors from the real world shows his knowledge of literature...

• Word Count: 507
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the forward of "Beloved," she explains that she is writing this book as an extremely angry African American woman. ... In "Beloved," the only character insight the reader receives is in the last few chapters which are told from the Sethe's, Denver's, and "Beloved's" point of view. Even in these chapters, Morrison's bias is dominant. ... Other critics disagree and claim that the book has no cultural importance whatsoever. They debate that more important novels could replace the book on reading lists. ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... Further, dividing the book are small excerpts from the "Dick and Jane" primer that is the archetype of the white upper-middle class lifestyle. ... The excerpts from "Dick and Jane" that head each "chapter" are typeset without any spaces or punctuation marks. ...

• Word Count: 609
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

O'Brien affectively confuses average readers with his ambiguity between "story truth" and "happening truth" and casts doubt on the veracity of the entire book to show a normal audience how war veterans are forced to cope with their experiences. ... Particularly at the end of the book, O'Brien explains that in Vietnam, the soldiers created ways to make the people they were close to that died seem less dead – they kept those people alive in their head with stories, like those O'Brien wrote of his friends Ted Lavender, Curt Lemon, Kiowa, and Linda. ... I t...

• Word Count: 685
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," by Mark Haddon, integrates unique elements of structure, language style and character narration to really deliver a rare, wonderful and one of a kind book that truly brings up thought provoking issues and is overall a satisfying read. ... Although the book starts of with a usual inquisitive narrative hook, it is really lacking in an imaginative plot, climax and ending. ... An interesting and distinctive point of the structure is the development of chapter length from short to long as the book progresses. ... For instance in one scene in the ...

• Word Count: 1041
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the very beginning of the chapter entitled 'conclusion', Jane delivers what is perhaps the most famous line of the whole novel. "Reader, I married him," she says, pinning down for certain the time from which Jane is speaking - her 'present' (that we reach at the end of the book) - as some time after the events took place. ... At the beginning of chapter eleven, after Jane's departure from Lowood, she tells the reader "I sit in my cloak. ... "A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play," she tells the reader. ...

• Word Count: 2174
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate