Novel Response #4 Breakfast of Champions By Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut, Kurt. ... In this novel, it has flashbacks, and present situations that the characters are introduced to. ... This book is a book that a reader could compare to a novel such as The Corrections. ... This novel is a fast reader and every page is new and surprising. ... I thought the way the characters were slowly going insane was like art, because the way they were thinking in the novel, even though it was totally bogus, was beautiful to me. ...

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"Snow Falling on Cedars," a novel written by David Guterson, is set in 1954 San Piedro Island, just north of Puget Sound. The novel follows the trial of a Japanese American man named Kabuo Miyamoto who is accused for murdering a local fisherman. ... The novel begins with the introduction of a court room containing members of the local community. ... Throughout the novel, the racism shown toward the Japanese can be seen with vivid clarity during the scenes take place in the court room. ... Throughout the novel, David Guterson uses the trial for the murder of the local fisherman in order to show...

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The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, is a novel about hope and not despair. ... The finale reason would be because when John Wyndham wrote this novel, it related to World War 2 in many ways. ... In the novel, David had looked at his surrounding in the Fringes where he met back Sophie and he had thought, "I sat looking at the shadows that danced on the rock walls, listening to the plop-plop-plop of the drips. ... David Strorm never follows the beliefs of his parents and society, along with the others who use telepathy, they dream of a world where there is kindness, love, and equality, and this n...

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Lord of the Flies is a highly symbolic novel, and many of its symbols are readily interpreted. ... By the end of the novel, they are leaving it sacrifices and treating it as a totemic god. ... Like Simon's statement in Chapter 5, they are central to the novel's theme of innate human savagery. ... As the novel evolves, the symbols loose their previous meaning. ... Then later on in the novel, the powerful symbols become the beast, and the lord of the flies. ...

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Explain the thematic significance of the motion imagery in the novel. ... It is the crisis of identity which is at the heart of Bellow's novel. ... The novel offers no answer beyond this recognition of our burdens and limitations. ... The opening pages clearly distinguish the direction of the novel. ... The novel shows us Herzog's desperate efforts to answer these questions. ...

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William Golding uses his novel Lord of the Flies to demonstrate this idea. ... The novel displays human's own illness, human nature, through the characters in his story. ... In the novel, all of the characters showed some trace of evil within them. ... Also in the novel, there was the thought that there was a "beastie" on the island. ... Through the events of this novel you can see the tragic truth of our human nature. ...

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This simple exchange concludes the novel. ... The novel employs many themes which are explored by most of the characters. ... During the novel Mr Dolphous Raymond and Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose are subject to prejudice from many people. ... Many of the characters in the novel are not what they truly seem to be. ... Towards the end of the novel Scout says, "I think there's just one kind of folks. ...

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William Golding's novel, The Inheritors, "reaches into prehistoria, advancing the thesis that humankind's evolutionary ancestors, the Fire-Builders, triumphed over a gentler race as much by violence and deceit as by natural superiority". (www.English_Nobel.ca, 1,1998) His thesis is much like his thesis used in his novel, Lord of the Flies. ... In the novel,The Inheritors, the overall effect portrays human's as being innately barbaric due to the novels anthropological perspective, characterization and symbolism. ...

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The novel tells of genius children locked away- half of them supposedly autistic. ... Just reading the book makes you feel that it's all real, but how much of what the novel portrays could really happen. ... Although I don't believe that the situation depicted in the novel is entirely realistic I believe that the basis of the story is. ... This is the reason why there are situations like the one depicted in the novel have and will arise. ... It is this image that the novel creates in our minds; therefore I believe that reading novel is both worthwhile and effective. ...

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"The Road," by Cormac McCarthy is a novel that addresses the fundamental rights of man and what it means to be human. ... This novel tells a story about survival, and the constant fight between staying alive and maintaining a certain morality of a "good guy"." In the novel, the father tells his son that it is their job to "carry the fire"." The "fire" that the father passes on to his son to keep burning surely can be said to refer to hope in humanity, which is a hope that never dies throughout this excellent novel. ... In the novel, "carrying the fire"" and being a "good guy"" essentially me...

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Twain's novel shows the progression of Huck as a person, with a "moral reconciliation" ending, an ending that is also very significant to the novel as a whole. ... This moral development that Huck experiences is very important to the novel because it shows what life in the South was truly like. ... This novel is a great aide to society even today, giving the reader an idea of how cruel and dark those days were in the south with regards to the treatment of blacks. ...

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It is hard believe that Mary Shelley wrote this novel with the intentions of frightening people. This novel shows that the treatment of society towards anyone will reveal certain qualities of that person's nature. ... Unfortunately, in this novel the Monster's bad qualities were brought out. The novel Frankenstein was used to show the way people are distinguished by society and the way society's perception affects those people. ...

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Most dystopian novels show the loss of the arts and the major advance in science. In Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake there is a display of the vast decline in the knowledge and importance of the arts. ... As the novel progresses, the reader is given information about the world as Jimmy used to know it. ... In the present parts of the novel there are individuals, known as Crakers. ... The emphasis Atwood places on English and all other liberal arts throughout her novel Oryx and Crake is a lesson for the world today. ...

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In the novel "The Chrysalids," by John Wyndham, blind acceptance of religious traditions and strict social conformity leads to the persecution and destruction of fellow human beings. ... In the fictional novel, Waknuk is a town that was created after a nuclear explosion with only two books surviving, The Bible and Nicholson's Repentances. ... Religion damages humans in the novel and in the real world. ... I think that the overall, most significant message you can take from this novel is accepting everyone will make the world not only a better place, but also a happier place....

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The success of their Graphic Novel can be understood through Scott McCloud's book Understanding Comics. Understanding Comics gives readers the insight and knowledge of what it takes and how to properly execute a successful graphic novel. ... This art form can often be looked at as much more difficult than a regular novel. In the graphic novel Watchmen, a lot of the story is depicted and developed through the use of images. ... The style and methodologies of writing such a graphic novel is in line with Scott McCloud's informative text Understanding Comics. ...

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In the novel "Night," by Elie Wiesel, the horrors of the holocaust are illustrated by someone who experienced them first hand. As a survivor of the holocaust, he endured many challenges and presents them to his readers through this very moving and tragic novel. ... One of the main symbols within the novel is simply the symbol of night. ... A famous quotes from this novel is, "Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.... In the novel, fire was perceived as representation of the horror to come. ...

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The Values of Frankenstein In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, she tries to express different values within the characters. ... Another value that was brought up in the novel was showing how a human can often challenge how much power they truly have. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein is at fault for creating the monster; however, the monster is not justified for his murderous acts. ... In the novel, Frankenstein was brought up being the only child and didn't have anyone to be around. ... Everyone can get meaning out of the values in this novel, whether they were brought up...

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His significance in this act changes from literal at that point in the novel to figurative when taken in context with the later events in Heart of Darkness. When the doctor asks in Marlow has a family history of mental illness, there is immediate foreshadowing about the madness that is to come in the novel. ... Within the context of the entire novel, the doctor's bizarre behavior seems to be an analogy for what Marlow thinks is the essence of Imperialism: a pointless method of judging an unknown, a ˜heart of darkness', by its exterior physical features (Europeans go into Afri...

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Ralph is the main protagonist of the novel. Elected as the leader of the boys at the beginning of the novel, Ralph already established the belief that "we've got to have rules and obey them" because "we are not savages. ... Ralph is the primary representative of order, civilization, and productive leadership in the novel. ... For most of the novel, Ralph is simply unable to understand why the other boys would give in to base instincts of bloodlust and barbarism. ... While Ralph acts as a protagonist in this novel, Jack is the antagonist who ought to eventually destroy Ralph's auth...

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Throughout the novel, The Stranger, many existentialist views are present. ... Later on in the novel, Meursault knew what he did was wrong and was ready to pay the consequences. ... During the beginning of the novel, Meursault showed no feeling whatsoever for anything. ...

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Clarke gave birth to the novel 2010, Odyssey Two which was the sequel to the incredibly amazing novel 2001, A Space Odyssey. ... If the endless twists and turns that the universe are the backbone of this novel, then the characters are the heart and soul. ... This novel is cram packed full of adventure, excitement and suspense. ... There is so much conflict that the novel is glowing with conflict radiation. ... To embody this novel in a single quote would not do it justice but the whole series can be summed up in six words; "My God it's full of stars."...

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My favorite character in the novel "The War of The Worlds" was the narrator's brother. ... The character I liked the least in this novel was a man known as the "curate". ... The main problem in this novel is the death grip of the Martians. ... I think the theme that the other is trying to illustrate in this novel is arrogance. ... The novel ended with what I think was a fair end logical ending. ...

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As the boys slowly evolve into a more savage society, there is a larger underlying theme in the novel. ... Through the novel Ralph is seen as the Democratic leader, but towards the end, his leadership role diminishes and it soon becomes nothing at all. ... Even though the beast isn't even real at any time in the novel, especially after they think that the beast is a dead parachutter. ... Jack is a master of imagination in the novel. ...

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Besides humans as an obstacle for manipulation, the books were the most challenging barriers to lead the society in a desired way, because the books made people more "questioning" human beings, just like in the novel Fahrenheit 451, which is written by Ray Bradbury. ... An environment at where they burn the books, thus the knowledge, creates this manipulation in Bradbury's novel. ... In order to manipulate the society, the government doesn't only destroy the books; they also destroy the media like radio and television, which has the same knowledge similar to the books in ...

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The novel Kindred written by Octavia E Butler proves this quote accurate of Rufus Weylin where he displayed traits of evil that include unsympathetic feelings, enforcing slavery and selfishness. Rufus Weylin is definitely an evil man and is clearly displayed through his actions and words to every other character in the novel. Rufus Weylin is clearly an evil man due to his lack of sympathy towards many characters in the novel. ... This is the most uncaring act in the entire novel because he took away Alice's children and "sold" them away to have her from leaving, resulting in h...

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