He commented once that the novel grew from the brutalities he witnessed during his service in the navy during World War II and from his thirteen year's experience of teaching young boys. ... But the novel is also an allegory - a story which has another meaning beyond the surface one. ... This novel fits into the 'survival narrative' tradition, where a person or group of people are placed in a strange, and usually primitive, setting, and the values of the writer's society are put to the test. ... Golding remembered saying to his wife before writing the novel: 'Wouldn&#x...

• Word Count: 982
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• Grade Level: High School

In the essay "Why the Novel Matters", Lawrence explores in his own way the Romantic concept of the relativity of parts and wholes to construct a doctrinal statement celebrating the novel over other fields of thought. Unlike philosophy, science, and religion, which only address "part" of us, he says, the novel reaches us "whole hog". ... 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 (...

• Word Count: 1195
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

How Do the Historical Notes Influence Our Interpretation of "A Handmaid's Tale"? ... Atwood has added this to the end of the novel to give some insight to what happened after Gileadian society. ... This does raise a question in the readers" mind about honesty in the rest of the novel. ... The historical notes raise a question of the authenticity of "A handmaids Tale." ... Pieixoto uses references from our time so the reader can relate to the novel more and they can understand more. ...

• Word Count: 1135
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The notion of transforming a novel into a film has been rampant today. Today, many films have been created from the ideas that adjacent the novel's. ... It is worth noting that visual images in the film will obviously stimulate the people's perceptions directly. ... In short, it is wise noting that this movie ensures that the feeling s of the observers are controlled since the truth is that visual images brings forth a direct sensations, which its impact can lead someone to shade tears. ... It is then perfectly to note that at most the novel will portray a perfect flow of events th...

• Word Count: 1130
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• Has Bibliography
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The contrast between past memory and present experience infuses the novel with a sense of contingency. ... Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes, gives the most amusing luncheons, which is very important for the woman from the high society.) ... One of the themes of the novel is the conflict between conventionality and unconventionality. ... Another theme of the novel is that the thoughts of individuals are connected in a way that transcends their separation. ... In the beginning of the novel Clarissa says, that she will get the flowers herself b...

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The Divine Wind describes an Australia that is tarnished by racism, hatred and distrust, and yet the novel ends on an optimistic note. ... The novel is set during a World War. ... All throughout the novel elements of separation are presented. ... Hart's lack of trust for characters in the novel such as Mitsy and Jamie are just some signs of Disher showing an Australia that is tarnished from distrust. ... Although the novel ends on an optimistic note, the future for Broome doesn't seem promising. ...

• Word Count: 540
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• Grade Level: High School

Jem changes in the course of the novel. ... Jem Finch from Harper Lee's famous novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is very important because throughout the novel he experiences a great development course. ... Jem and Scout find gifts in the peephole of a tree, they decided to write a note and left it in the tree. When Jem and Scout leave the note they find out someone has filled the hole in the tree with cement. ... Jem's understanding of mockingbirds grows throughout the novel. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Quicksand by Nella Larsen and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Johnson have dark background information, but they both end on a positive note. ... Also, both characters use the setting of each novel as an escape from their troubles. ... Next up, the setting of both novels creates a great ambience for the novels and works great with the theme. ... Also, both characters use the setting of each novel as an escape from their troubles. In conclusion, both novels revolve around the idea that the characters, events, and settings help reinforce the same theme in both novels....

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• Grade Level: High School

In addition, the video ends on a positive note, which is quite the opposite feeling the conclusion of the book gives. ... This is not an upbeat ending at all, as the animals" situation is still worsening as the novel close. ... Often a movie adapted from a novel fails to give the viewer the same original vision the author had. This is definitely the case with the Animal Farm novel and the TNT movie version of the story. Although the movie gets the basics of the story right, it comes up far short of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 499
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• Grade Level: High School

I chose to analysis Frankenstein as the novel for my analysis because I studies the novel in depth in a first year English (English 200) course. ... Instead of using quotation marks, the editor of this particular version chose to note speech with smaller fonts, indentation, and different spacing. ... When reading a novel, the more immersed and involved I am, the faster I read. ... However, I would just like to briefly note that I do enjoy reading fiction that is created specifically for the medium of hypertext. ... It provides readers with many experiences and sensations that a bound novel...

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• Grade Level: High School

That Eye The Sky Review The Novel That Eye The Sky by Tim Winton is about the Flack family consisting of Sam and Alice, their children, and Tegwyn and Morton. ... In the opening scene of the novel, we find out straight away that Sam had a car crash and is in a coma. Due to this incident, gradually through out the novel we find the details of each character and how this incident gradually pulled the family apart. ... The ending is a strange surreal note and the reader is left to make a choice. ...

• Word Count: 271
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• Grade Level: High School

Chillingworth as Satan in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a novel packed with religious symbolism, and Hawthorne subtly assigns the role of the devil to Roger Chillingworth. Throughout the novel, there are many references and associations that confirm the fact that Chillingworth is representative of the ultimate evil. First, Hawthorne sets Chillingworth up as the antithesis of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the obvious Christ-like symbol of the novel. ... Symbolically, on another more obvious note, Chillingworth steals one of Dimmesdale's gloves and drops it on the scaffold where ...

• Word Count: 307
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• Grade Level: High School

"This is a novel about love in all its forms." What does Paul learn about love from his various relationships in the novel? "Maestro" is a novel about maturity and adolescence, inevitably involving love in all its forms. ... Towards the end of the text, Paul reflects, and understands that Keller was not merely trying to teach him to play the piano better, but trying to teach him how to play music with a depth that just note perfection cannot give. ...

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For Victor Hugo's fourteen hundred-page novel is an epic in every sense of the word. Originally published in 1862, the novel spans five volumes. ... An over-riding vamp signals the beginning of "Work Song", but after one or two repetitions, it is suddenly and forcefully undercut by two jarring bass notes (listening to the score, it sounds like it's a sharp and a natural right next to one another), thus establishing – even out of context of the show – that the scene is a prison where the inmates are little more than slaves. ... When "One Day More", the...

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• Grade Level: High School

In his novel A Passage to India, E.M Forster offers the reader a critique of English colonists, or Anglo-Indians as he refers to them, in colonized India. ... This magnification is made abundantly clear again and again throughout the novel. ... It is not the British people but "the machine that is wrong- ("Notes on the English Character- 15). ... Moore notes that he never behaved so rudely at home, reinforcing the negative effects of restrictive colonial culture. ... Forster therefore implies, as he does several times throughout the novel, that good intentions alone are insufficient. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck commitment is one of the positive themes. ... In the novel George and Lennie are focused on getting their ideal land. ... These two things are the positive theme of commitment in the novel. ... As Owens points out, " The death of the dream, however, does not force Of Mice and Men to end on the strong note of pessimism critics have consistently claimed. ... In the novel Of Mice and Men commitment is a positive theme. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee's character Jem (Jeremy) Finch, from her famous novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is very interesting because during the course of the novel, he undergoes a great maturing process. ... 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. ... All the events that occurred during the novel had some impact on Jem. ... Jem learns a lot through the course of the novel about how the world around him is. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At first everyone that saw the letter thought it was a runaway note, but by Friday everyone was saying it was a suicide note written by Chris. ... And a little bit of information is that this was Carol Plum-Ucci very first novel. ...

• Word Count: 350
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The novel encompasses many gender stereotypes that were alive during the nineteenth century. ... Eliot underline's Maggie's differences in the openings of the novel, by describing her features as contrastingly different from her family. ... Throughout the novel, words like "black" and "dark" are common in Maggies descriptions. ... The narrator often notes how Maggie's intellect sets her apart from her family. They note that, "her eyes were full of unsatisfied intelligence, and unsatisfied beseeching affection" (178). ...

• Word Count: 820
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• Grade Level: High School

"The Stone Angel," by Margaret Laurence, is a novel written through the eyes of Hagar, the ninety year old protagonist who battles with a constant fear of being forgotten in her remaining years of life. ... Steven and Christina's actions (or lack of) are critical to the novel in illuminating the human condition, in particularly the challenges of a grandparent maintaining a relationship with their grandchildren as they mature into adults. ... At the beginning of the novel, Doris notes that she and Marvin "have not been out this entire month since Tina left" "(53), which hints towards Tin...

• Word Count: 863
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Count Dracula has many similarities to Jesus Christ throughout Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. ... In this novel, you find similarities in the way they die, what happens when they die, and how others know them. ... In the novel Dracula there is no solid proof that Dracula ever existed because we never see him. Jonathan explains this in his note at the end of the novel, " In all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document: nothing but a mass of typewriting" (Stoker 400). ... These similarities between Dracula and Jesus Christ are present in thi...

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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the novel, Woolf steps away from traditional writing forms and explores the possibilities of creative prose. ... Word choice plays an incredibly important role in understanding Woolf's novel. ... Woolf uses unique metaphor constantly throughout the novel. ... Another important note is that the book is written entirely through soliloquy. ... The Waves is not the typical novel. ...

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At 27 ,back in Dorset, he starts to write as a profession and wrote the unpublished novel: The Poor Man and the Lady. ... In 1912 Emma suddenly dies on Nov. 27 which means the year ends on a sad note for Mr. ... He wrote 18 novels that are well known, 2 sets of poetry, 3 sets of short stories and three non-fiction books. ...

• Word Count: 350
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The personality of the narrator in this novel is almost as important as the task bestowed upon her. ... A specific group that may favor this novel is the women activists of the 1960's and 1970's. ... The answer is easily satisfied when the reader finishes the novel. ... The "Historical Notes- chapter causes the reader to re-examine the book, both mentally and manually. ... Contrasts are important aspects in the narration of this novel. ...

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Briar Rose is an unusual and poignant novel. ... Although their romance is not the main focus of the novel, Stan provides a romantic interest throughout the novel. ... In Briar Rose, "kisses" draw parallel lines between the fairytale and the novel's story. ... Throughout the novel, Yolen questions the possibility of fairytale "happily ever after" endings. ... The hopeful tone of the book is balanced in the Author's Note with a brief and sober look at the facts of Chelmno. ...

• Word Count: 1040
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• Grade Level: High School