The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel about a nameless father and son who are traveling to the coast in the south. ... Cormac McCarthy is an American writer known for stylistically complex novels, such as The Road and Blood Meridian. ... "McCarthy published his debut novel, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965, and was awarded the William Faulkner Award for it (Mote 1). ... Since then, the novel has been adapted to film, and was released in 2009" (Mote 2). After the release of this novel, McCarthy's book became very successful and is now read in high schools in America and Canada. ...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The novel CloudStreet by Tim Winton presents a series of events that can be read as a story. There are important themes evident in the novel that are contributed with the help of the technique of narrative structure. In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... The chapters and sub-chapters in the novel help to shape the events in the novel from a conflict to a resolution and also enabled the readers to see the importance of family and the importance of place. ... In Cloudstreet there are also parts of the no...

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

The novel CloudStreet by Tim Winton presents a series of events that can be read as a story. There are important themes evident in the novel that are contributed with the help of the technique of narrative structure. In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... The chapters and sub-chapters in the novel help to shape the events in the novel from a conflict to a resolution and also enabled the readers to see the importance of family and the importance of place. ... In Cloudstreet there are also parts of the no...

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

The novel CloudStreet by Tim Winton presents a series of events that can be read as a story. There are important themes evident in the novel that are contributed with the help of the technique of narrative structure. In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. ... The chapters and sub-chapters in the novel help to shape the events in the novel from a conflict to a resolution and also enabled the readers to see the importance of family and the importance of place. ... In Cloudstreet there are also parts of the no...

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

As the novel goes on many inappropriate topics are discussed that many parents disagree with. ... Another topic that could lead a parent to banning this novel is abuse. ... The purpose of abuse in this novel is to show how the adults cope with their struggles. ... Profanity and homosexual jokes and references can be found multiple times in the novel. ... This novel is filled with stereotypes that end up affecting Junior. ...

• Word Count: 823
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The novel starts in the seventies with Naomi a teacher in Northern Alberta finding out that her uncle has died. ... The novel had many strengths and weaknesses. ... I also did not like the way that the novel would drag on. ... I would recommend this novel to all Canadians, but especially to British Columbians. ... Obasan was a good novel to help better understand our Canadian history....

• Word Count: 640
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The thing that sets it apart from our lifestyle is the American culture that the novel is set in. ... One of the main themes in the novel is Novalee being a good mother. ... The theme home runs throughout the novel. ... There are no "traditional families" where it is a mother, father and children in the novel. ... Billie Letts shows, in the novel, that to be a happy family it doesn't have to be traditional. ...

• Word Count: 496
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Shortly after, Tyler moved to Montreal, where her husband was completing his residency while she published her first novels, If Morning Ever Comes and The Tin Can Tree. ... Most of Tyler's time in Baltimore has been spent raising her two daughters, running her household, and publishing twelve more novels, a children's book, numerous short stories, and several reviews. ... In most of Tyler's novels, the main characters struggle and, at the same time, depend on their families. ... The key feature that Tyler focuses in on the most in her novels is the tension that develops betwe...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literary devices are the most direct way in which an author reinforces the themes of a novel. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is a novel where not all meanings are understood at a literal level. ... It is the place where the Lambs and the Pickles share their lives for most of the novel, and thus assumes great symbolic importance in the novel. ... In the novel, spirituality is present in both the Pickles and the Lamb's families. ... Besides this, components of Aboriginal spirituality are also present throughout the novel. ...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8

In the beginning of the novel, Josie just wanted "to belong to her [Poison Ivy's] world. ... Near the beginning of the novel, are introduced to Michael Andretti twice. ... From the beginning of the novel, we already know the attitude Josie has about her Nonna. ... We learn of John Barton's death near the end of the novel. ... In the end of the novel, Josie has grown and understood herself. ...

• Word Count: 727
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Thirty years later, A Death In The Family, a novel of Agee's childhood would be the cornerstone of his fame. In this novel, Rufus is the protagonist and he spends more time on his view than any other character in the novel. ... Rufus and his father Jay first enter the novel when him and his father go to see a Charlie Chaplin film. ... Agee uses a poetic language to describe Rufus and his experiences in the italicized section of the novel. ... Throughout the novel, Agee explores the memories of Rufus flashbacks. ...

• Word Count: 581
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The main character of the novel "A Room with a View " is Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman who follows the social convensions of the Victorian middle class which she belongs to. ... The main theme of the novel is the comparison between the peculiarity of Italian people and of English people, between two different ways of living. ... Forster sees something deeply wrong in the puritan and merchant society of his time and he underlines that view in his novel: we could find a clear contraposition between Honeychurch's and Emerson's world or, better, view of the world. ... A...

• Word Count: 379
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. ... Throughout the novel, Simon is depicted as a man who seems stuck n a rut, unable to move forward. ... However, in the closing lines of the novel, Stephen finally frees himself from his father's influence. ... The novel is permeated by references to freedom through avian symbolism and allusions to Daedalus' wings. ... Toward the end of the novel, Joyce's readers are granted concrete conclusions which resolve Stephen's many patriarchal conflicts. ...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A defining, overarching element of Virginia Woolf's novel, "To the Lighthouse," is the presence of uncertainty during transitional periods of time. ... Outside of the novel's boundaries, Woolf addresses the reoccurring theme of uncertainty by writing a novel that defies being categorized as a product of a specific genre or literary period. ... Towards the beginning of the novel, the Ramsay family and their home are portrayed in a positive manner. ... The novel's overall transformation can be noted through the darkness that slowly consumes the Ramsays and their household. ... At ...

• Word Count: 869
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Briar Rose is a novel with a very dark theme. ... A quote that depicts the dark theme of the novel is: ""Five thousand corpses?" ... Symbolism is a technique greatly used in this novel. ... "The music still played" (Yolen 142) was repeatidly used on one page of the novel. ... It is a very powerful quote that was stressed by repetition in the novel. ...

• Word Count: 809
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel A Painted House, there was not a big focus on education at all. ... Luke's mother only mentions education once throughout the whole novel. ... In fact in the novel he say's "It didn't sound like fun. ... Which Luke's mother and father eventually decided to do at the end of the novel. ... The novel didn't state it, but I assume the Mexicans were uneducated also. ...

• Word Count: 1137
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Through distinctive features within a novel, exploration and an understanding of ideas upon human experience can be encompassed. The novel Ellen Foster written by Kaye Gibbons, portrays the ill-fated life of Ellen, an 11 year old girl mourning the death of her mother and living with the burden of her alcoholic father. ... Subsequently, the unique characterizsation Gibbons illustrates throughout her novel highlights the different aspects and opinions her characters convey giving the audience a view of life within her novel and life within the setting portrayed. ... Within the text Ellen Foster,...

• Word Count: 1059
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Toni Morrison's award-winning novel Song of Solomon is full of very interesting, deep symbolism. Macon Dead III, nicknamed "Milkman," is a very symbolic character throughout the novel. ... Also, Milkman's paternal aunt, Pilate, has an extremely significant and symbolic role in the novel. ... This unreachable goal accurately describes his character throughout the novel. ... Finally, Guitar is also a very symbolic character in Toni Morrison's novel. ...

• Word Count: 890
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This novel is set in Kerala, South India, during the late 1960s. ... The novel, in its own understated way, comments and analyses the transition of the Kerala of the sixties to the Kerala of today. ... I found the novel extremely powerful and at times intimate. This novel is more than insightful, it is indubitably aware of the pain and joy of life. ...

• Word Count: 279
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

I will concentrate on the situation of the daughters in the family, since these are the best described in the novel. ... The statement reflects the situation for women in the novel and during this period. ... Conclusion Marriage is the main subject in the novel, as well as for people of this period. ... The situation of the women in the novel does not allow them any kind of deviant acting since a happy marriage is the only goal for them. Though this is the general atmosphere in the novel, I would like to end my essay with the words of Mr. ...

• Word Count: 1070
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, families are a very important part of the structure of the novel. ... Almost every family mentioned in the novel was either incomplete or was dysfunctional. ... Not one family in this novel was complete. ... This phrase right here shows his feelings for her from early on in the novel. As the novel proceeds, his feelings remain unchanged. ...

• Word Count: 1455
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel Like Water for Chocolate, there is also a great deal of symbolism throughout the whole story. ... You also learn that Tita shows her emotions through her cooking, which is a vital part of telling this novel. ... At the very end of the novel Tita finally gets to experience the one thing she has always wanted to experience, and that is love. The novel ends with Pedro and Tita making love, and during this all of Tita's candles are lit. ... In the novel Like Water for Chocolate, Tita's cooking expresses her love and sorrow that she feels for Pedro. ...

• Word Count: 1481
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In his novel "The Kite Runner," Khaled Hosseini uses literary devices such as diction, imagery, and tone to reveal Amir's past and show how it characterizes his future. ... As the novel goes on, Amir is frightened by the choice he made long ago not to save Hassan from being bullied and raped. ... Khaled Hosseini proceeds to characterize Amir and Hassan's relationship throughout the remainder of the novel. ... Amir's tone in the novel is truly changed when he is informed that Hassan had been killed six months prior to his knowledge. ... Amir becomes humble throughout th...

• Word Count: 600
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The novel is divided into four sections and collectively narrated in each section by different characters in the novel. ... Such is the case with Benjy, who narrates the first section of the novel. ... As the novel progresses, we discover that April 7th is Benjy's 33rd birthday. ... In the novel, Benjy is thirty-three, the age of Christ at his death. ... Quentin narrates the second chapter of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 2419
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

EXPANSION OF VIEWPOINT As the novel The Grapes of Wrath progresses, the Joads progress from a concern only for themselves and their own personal welfare to a concern for all the people in the world. ... When we first see him at the beginning of the novel he is mainly concerned for his own welfare. ... Later on in the novel he is more concerned with the welfare of the family. ... Towards the end of the novel the family disintergrates more with the loss of Tom and engagement of Al. ...

• Word Count: 469
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School