Note, however, that at the same time he is also effectively illustrating his general thesis. The thrust of his argument - including the opening metaphor, the discussion of "absolutes," and a concluding list of "whole" books as opposed to "partial" books - does not consist of one logical "whole" but of a collection of incongruous parts. ... When Lawrence says that the "novel is the one bright book of life," he deliberately does nol say that the novel is like life (a simile) or that it is full of life (a description) but that it is the "book of life." ... "Books are not life," he writes. ... By ...

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Cervantes portrays the character of a Don Quixote, a man deeply lost and overcome in his books of chivalry. ... The distinction between what class and worth representation between a person's class and a person's worth was one of the major ideas in Cervantes's time. ... Cervantes's emphasis on these disproportions between class and worth is a single reason that Don Quixote was such an innovative work in its time. ... Luring with public orders of honor can be taken to an extremity, dominating one's life and leading to wreck. ... The books and manuscripts that appear eve...

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Factors like the upbringing of a character, the time and place, and the environments a character is exposed to, are usually seen as being the most important ones. ... However, the articles of clothing that are mentioned in the books do play a vital role in illustrating the symbolical meanings that help explain the personalities of the characters introduced in the books. ... Here José Dias tries to get a taste of what his life would be like if he were to be a doctor, a situation that causes some confusion between him and Bento's father. ... Dona Gloria and Bayardo San Roman are tw...

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This progression from innocence to sexual degradation mirrors the path of Emma's life and inevitable destruction. Evans implies that Madame Bovary is a novel about the dangers of reading romantic novels since Emma's image of romance developed from the books she read at the convent school. These books reflected the more exuberant aspects of Romanticism, a literary and artistic movement that focused on the expression of the emotional and imaginative life of the individual. ... She actually becomes ill after romantic episodes in her life. ... The article's most significant ...

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They are genuinely nice people who enjoy their time together and get along smoothly. ... Even the old blind man who many would sympathize with for his lack of vision, is enjoying life more than most other characters mentioned in this story, as he is continuously depicted singing or playing a musical instrument, which normally brings smiles to any bystanders. ... He knew nothing and yet in a succinct period of time, he earns how to separate his senses, survive, comprehend the human language, and even formulate his own thoughts and ideas: "I admired virtue and good feelings and loved the g...

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Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. Made-up events and characters tell us things "that history books have never told us so clearly," so as "to make history, what happened, more comprehensible"(p. 75). ... Their success seems to have surprised Eco, who puzzled for "two years" after the publication of his first novel, "trying to figure out why the book was being read by people who surely coul...

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GCSE Prose Coursework: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein At the time Shelley was writing her novel, "Frankenstein", the world was discovering things daily, so her writings were relevant and justified at that time. ... His mother's death causes a morbid ambition in Frankenstein to create "life from dead matter", which he does eventually. ... Before he gives life to the monster, Frankenstein shuns the creature because of his appearance but he continues to give life to "the breathless horror" of the monster. ... Even if Frankenstein created life, would life from death be the same? ... The...

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During her time at Howard University, she was a member of the theater company that presented plays about the lives of African Americans. ... While serving as a publisher, she published books by several African American writers. She also enjoyed lecturing across the country, teaching part-time, and writing many novels ("Toni Morrison Biography"). ... As you can see, Morrison was an incredible woman that achieved so much, especially for being an African American in that time period. ... Frequently using childhood memories to help start writing, Morrison's real-life world is often...

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Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a gift you have?" ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that dep...

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Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a gift you have?" ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that dep...

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Humour is employed in a variety of ways in Catch-22 and Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Heller and De Bernieres uses the same background theme; However, though contrasts are apparent in their portrayal of war, their use of humour is employed differently also. In Catch-22, the humour is interwoven t...

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