At the age of sixteen she wrote her First novel, The Outsiders. ... A Saturday Review critic expressed a similar view, noting that The Outsider is "written with distinctive style by a teen-ager who is sensitive, honest and observant .""... This novel shows this theme throughout a detailed story line. The fictional novel is set in the moderate-sized city of Tulsa, Oklahoma in the late 1960s. ... This theme is expressed in the novel several times. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

His first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain," found its final form here. ... He wrote something else, too, an essay called "Stranger in the Village"; it was this essay, even more than the novel, that brought me to Leukerbad. "Stranger in the Village" first appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1953, and then in the essay collection "Notes of a Native Son," in 1955. ... I ran a hot bath and lay neck-deep in the water with my old paperback copy of "Notes of a Native Son....

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The King of the Novel and the Duchess of Dumb: Exploring Women's Exclusion from Writing Prof.: Donna Vittorio ENGL 205 In the interest of upholding a position of superiority, one might denigrate and ridicule others. ... Leapor notes the different perceptions held of these two people, as early on in the piece Mary's writing is compared to the "rhyme- of December, insinuating something that is disagreeable and lifeless. ... Quoted in Course Notes of ENGL 205*. ... Quoted in Course Notes of ENGL 2...

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In 1926 Hemingway published his second novel entitled The Sun Also Rises. ... The ideas and morals stressed in the novel related more with the youth of his time then his own generation. ... The publishers of The Sun Also Rises published the story because "they found especially in this novel, that Hemingway derived a certain style that allowed him to prevent his people and his actions not as perceptible through a literary medium, but as if immediate." ... This creates a feeling of being "lost" that is the stressed theme of the novel. ... Malcolm Cowley notes that Hemingway "uses the oldest and ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Graphology Graphology is the study of handwriting and determining a person's character. The acknowledged father of modern graphology is French abbot and novel writer Hippolyte Michon. He published his first book in 1875 and introduced the term graphology. Many research professionals have s...

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Graphology Graphology is the study of handwriting and determining a person's character. The acknowledged father of modern graphology is French abbot and novel writer Hippolyte Michon. He published his first book in 1875 and introduced the term graphology. Many research professionals have s...

• Word Count: 1861
• Approx Pages: 7