I have read a book in wich both sexes are involved in the writing. this is the first time I recall reading a book written by two authors. The two authors wrote alternating chapters, switching first-person narrators between Jack and Amy (the two main characters) this gives the book some originality. ... The first chapter comes to a close when jack turns up to the bar to celebrate Matt's birthday. ... The book is an enjoyable enough read. ... So, overall, it's not a bad book. ...

• Word Count: 567
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... This is evident in the prologue and the last sub-chapter called "Sun, Moon, Stars". ... Shifting perspectives in these sub-chapters is also evident. ... The body of the book Cloudstreet is seen as linear. At the start of the novel we see that chapters one and two reveal the tragedies of both families and chapter three is when they both start a new life in Perth. ...

• Word Count: 842
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... This is evident in the prologue and the last sub-chapter called "Sun, Moon, Stars". ... Shifting perspectives in these sub-chapters is also evident. ... The body of the book Cloudstreet is seen as linear. At the start of the novel we see that chapters one and two reveal the tragedies of both families and chapter three is when they both start a new life in Perth. ...

• Word Count: 842
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... This is evident in the prologue and the last sub-chapter called "Sun, Moon, Stars". ... Shifting perspectives in these sub-chapters is also evident. ... The body of the book Cloudstreet is seen as linear. At the start of the novel we see that chapters one and two reveal the tragedies of both families and chapter three is when they both start a new life in Perth. ...

• Word Count: 871
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In Chapter 2, the narrator of the novel explains that: "Micro-organisms, which cause so much disease and pain on earth, have either never appeared upon Mars or Martian sanitary science eliminated them ages ago. ... In Chapter 10, Wells states, "it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way. ... Except for a few chapters when the action switches views to the point of the narrator's brother, this book was written as a first person narrative. ... This book represents the fiction genre of the 19th century literature period. ...

• Word Count: 597
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The cover illustration and the chapter headings, as well as the illustrations at the beginning of each chapter, will make the reader anticipate excitement and intrigue. The size of the print and the length of the book seem to deem the age range for this book is mid grade school to junior high, yet people of all ages enjoy it. ... The style of writing in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone may seem advanced for the age group intended to read this book, but in reality the book flows so well that it can be read with great ease. The style of this book is straightforward and easy to under...

• Word Count: 774
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I want to point out some siginificance of each narrator and the tensions between their point of views of Fleur, the main character, with scenes from chapters 7-9. In chapter 7, Nanpush is describing the accounts of Lulu's illness and the struglled she endured as a young girl (165-167). ... Nanapush doesn't want to express his thoughts through just his world views, he wants us to remember the struggle from chapter 1 and recount the trials each person had to endure during the allotment. ... I really enjoyed this book in its entirety and will recommend it to anyone who loves mysteri...

• Word Count: 560
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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

The descriptions Judith Guest gives throughout the story, regarding all the different issues, that come up, make the book even more realistic, and in some instances even humorous. ... The reader will know what to expect from a chapter, just from the descriptions given at that moment. ... Despite the fact that the book is written in third-person narrative, using way too many pronouns, which can often confuse readers, all other aspects are completely enjoyable. ... Everyone ages sixteen and up should read this book in which one can realize that a so-called ordinary world, is really not that ordi...

• Word Count: 415
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The descriptions Judith Guest gives throughout the story, regarding all the different issues, that come up, make the book even more realistic, and in some instances even humorous. ... The reader will know what to expect from a chapter, just from the descriptions given at that moment. ... Despite the fact that the book is written in third-person narrative, using way too many pronouns, which can often confuse readers, all other aspects are completely enjoyable. ... Everyone ages sixteen and up should read this book in which one can realize that a so-called ordinary world, is really not that ordi...

• Word Count: 411
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

For instance, during a chapter Lazaro stops telling story due to the fact that the audience may got bored: "but I don't want to go on and on so I will miss out a lot of things-(p33). ... To give example for statements: At the very beginning of the book, he asks that "how many people must there be in the world who run away from others in fright because they can't see themselves?"... In another occasion, he cannot realize the relationship between his mother and black man in first chapter. ... For instance, he may not mention that he prayed for every single day for his priest master to ...

• Word Count: 1655
• Approx Pages: 7

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

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. ... Morrison unpacks the metaphor throughout the book, and, through Claudia, finally explains it and broadens its scope to all African-Americans on the last page. ... The importance of this book goes beyond its val...

• Word Count: 1112
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The deeper meaning of the book expands on this topic, right down to the crux of human imperfection. ... By the final chapter, his message is undeniable: man's essential flaw is his unstoppable willingness to destroy another. ... Ralph is the only character who remains practical throughout the book. ...

• Word Count: 565
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the book Bean grows up from a abandoned child to a normal person. In the first part of the book Bean is a child living in the streets of Rotterdam, where many children are struggling to survive. ... By the third chapter it turns out that Achilles will kill Poke. ... This short part about his memory diverts the narrative structure and bewilders the narration as the memories are not clear and there are little relations with narrative structure in the other chapters. ... (Card, 436) Card develops Bean's reveals Bean's character mainly throughout the book by presenting hi...

• Word Count: 1670
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ian McEwan's novel Enduring Love "has the most gripping first chapter I've ever read". ... McEwan only tells the reader briefly about the event, it doesn't give the reader any clue of what is to come later in the book. ... Ian McEwan hooks the reader by indicating that what Joe and the others are witnessing is just a small ordeal and makes the reader want to carry on reading through the rest of the book. "This was the pinprick on the time map" this quote gives us the impression that this incident is minor compared to colossal events that are still to come in the rest of the boo...

• Word Count: 1080
• Approx Pages: 4

The first and most interesting point worth examining in William Wells Brown's narrative is how the title of his book is written. ... In Chapter XI, Brown writes of his first attempt to escape slavery by traveling to Canada and then adds, "American democracy behind, liberty ahead....

• Word Count: 541
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" Albert and Yu Tsun specifically speak about a book, which is made of chapters that diverge from a single path but somehow also creates more diverging paths. ... The novel that Yu Tsun and Albert discuss, Tsui Pen's book, is also a result of his imagination. ...

• Word Count: 752
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Mark Twin used the first person narrative in order so that the people can read a novel in the person point of view. Twain didn't use any other person's perspective for the mere fact that Huck was the person between all the actions. Using Ms. Watson and the Duke's perspective wouldn't have given the ...

• Word Count: 322
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

"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

The plot of this novel is summed up in the first two chapters, and is all about this one family and the events that happen to it. ... Faulkner's point is that memory, and especially the ways in which people remember and reinterpret events, can be as malleable and shape-shifting as is the style of this book. ... Ultimately however Faulkner is saying about the south, don't judge a book by its cover. ... Faulkner was very preoccupied with the south and its destruction from the Civil War, and this again is Faulkner saying do no judge a book by its cover. ...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The case study related in this chapter used not only the pastor, but also the family, the laity, and the liturgy of the funeral in dealing with the bereaved. ... I found this book to be informative and insightful. ...

• Word Count: 922
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Howard Brody has written a terrific book called Stories of Sickness. I am going to talk to you about some ideas in this book which I have found helpful in thinking about experiences of sickness--my own and others-- and in thinking about experiences of 'story',--as storytelling, as fiction and fact that I have read about in books. ... Finally, there is some special information to be gained from looking at sickness as a series of chapters in the ongoing narrative of a life. ...

• Word Count: 7536
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School

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

In addition, the narrative was also divided into twelve chapters, which lucidly relate Douglass' experiences as a slave through the beginnings of his career as an abolitionist. ... As we have seen the book cover contains some external cues that are quite important for the reader such as the book title and the author's name and then contains you have another key element which is the portrait or photograph of the subject of the narrative and then you have an authenticating testimonial which it is the preface. ...

• Word Count: 2277
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate