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. ...
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 factual nature of his first book and the relatively conventional narrative methods of his second give way to a much more imaginative account of Vietnam in Going After Cacciato (1978), the book that launched him to stardom. ... These same concerns are evident in his award-winning short-story cycle The Things They Carried (1990), powerful tales so much like memoirs that O'Brien feels compelled to emphasize in a prefatory note that what follows is "a work of fiction." ... This book suggests that stories often communicate a more accurate notion of the truth than even experience can, which...
In this novella the title reveals the motif of darkness that is strong throughout the story; " absolutely everything in the book is cloaked in darkness" (Spark Notes, "Themes, Motifs and Symbols"). For this motif, darkness has different meanings for different parts of the book, and these different interpretations can be directly related to the title, thereby changing what it represents. ... In this novella there are three main areas that the motif is very strong and for each of these parts of the book the meaning of darkness changes. ...
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. ...
Note, however, that at the same time he is also effectively illustrating his general thesis. ... 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." ... But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble" This supplement, rather than clarifying the first statement, simply introduces new terms into the original mix, placing in different metaphorical proximity and new combinations word-concepts - "life", "book", "tremul...
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...
"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. ...
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. ...
"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...
On a more extreme note, Frankenstein's creation is also wrongly accused by the people who see him, mainly because of society's standards for what is meant to be normal. ... People innately do judge a book by its cover, but are they singlehandedly the ones to blame?...