The quick information access provided by the Feed, caused the vocabularies of characters in the novel to be minimal, and full of futuristic slang. ... Abbreviating a simple word such as " girlfriend" exhibits that their futuristic society has adapted multiple generations to using more concise and shortened vocabularies. Throughout the novel, Anderson emphasizes his created slang and adolescent vocabulary specific to the society in Feed. ...

• Word Count: 962
• Approx Pages: 4

I have used the vocabulary of literary analysis such as: Direct and indirect characterization, setting, plot, theme and conflict. ... I have use some of the vocabulary of literary analysis but not enough to be specific. ... I have not used the vocabulary of literary analysis. ...

• Word Count: 1061
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

A Walk to Remember (A Critic Review) Basically, the novel talked about how simple events in one's life could possibly change the person. The situations that the characters encountered had shown clearly the lesson that the author wanted to say to the readers. However, perfectly written as it may...

• Word Count: 957
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After a long exasperating reading through an insanely complex novel, Crime and Punishment, One will find themselves mentally anguished and disassociated with vocabulary understanding. Fyodor Dostoevsky style of writing was one of articulate detail composed with an elite use of a distinguished vocabulary. ...

• Word Count: 966
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During my early childhood, I was not allowed to go out with my friends or watch TV like other children. My parents would not purchase any toys for me. I went to school eahc day, did my homework and studied my textbook until midnight. I remembered my mother told me one day, that everyone in this h...

• Word Count: 647
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Secret Agent is a novel by Joseph Conrad around which you follow the life of Winnie Verloc through the events of her husband Adolf Verloc and his fellow revolutionaries. When reading this novel you are immersed in the book by Conrad's use of detail and vocabulary. There are so many details and...

• Word Count: 993
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Stephen King is one of the most famous authors in the world. He was born in 1947 and graduated in 1970 from the University of Maine. Stephen King was renown because of his horror novels, which became adaptations for horror movies. Also, his books have sold well over 300 million copies worldwide. Kin...

• Word Count: 706
• Approx Pages: 3

Whenever two novels were written in different time periods, many differences can be found between these novels. They may have been written in different styles for different classes of readers. Viewpoints and beliefs change with time, and the writing styles in these novels reflect this evolution. During the time that Frankenstein was written (1818), Romanticism was the dominant literary period, and much of the Romantic philosophy can be seen in Mary Shelley's novel. One major theme in this work was rejection of authority. ...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The English novel which was destined to live, in fact out live all other forms of literature, whether poetry or drama, and shine even today on the horizon of English literature as a bright star, actually rose and greatly developed in the 18th century. The novel despite the presence of great poetical...

• Word Count: 1006
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Setting: Another Country takes place in Harlem, France, Greenwich Village and other locales throughout numerous incidents in this literary work. It is a time during the early 1970's when racism against women and ethnic dissents take place. The most prevailing and leading events take place in Ha...

• Word Count: 1203
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

James Baldwin is considered one of the most important African American writer of novels, poetry, short stories and essays, as well as a civil right activist. He was born in New York City's Harlem in 1924 (Smith 235). Due to his mother's inaccessibility and his stepfather's stern and remote manner, B...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans. New York: Barnes and Nobles, Inc., 1993, 423 p. Part I: The Author and His Preparations James Fenimore Cooper was born in 1789 in Burlington, NJ though raised in Cooperstown, NY. He grew up exploring the hills, forest and lake near his f...

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 is a very deep, complex, and demanding novel, requiring the wide breadth of knowledge. One of the most fascinating aspects of the novel is Pynchon's choice -- or rather, invention -- of the names he gives the characters and organizations described in the novel. These names function as metaphors for the people and things they represent, thus enabling us to understand the hidden meaning of the novel. The protagonist of The Crying of Lot 49 is a woman named Oedipa Maas. Oedipa's first name, obviously, derives from Oedipus, the hero of Soph...

• Word Count: 2590
• Approx Pages: 10

I. Southern Mail is a fictional book about a man, Jacques Bernis' journeys as a mail carrier, and is told by the author as the narrator. This novel can be categorized as a love story, however it is more like a sequence of confusing events with a love story intertwined throughout. But isn't that ex...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical novel, this dazzling mixture of thick historical research and popular detective fiction invited its readers to view historical fiction as an academically respectable genre and a vehicle for recovering and reimagining the past in unconventional ways...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of life and the patterns that society are prone to following. This brought about curiosity and the religious affiliated explanations were no longer sufficient. The dissatisfaction for many, and believing mindlessly in something with no real evidence was intolerable. Society's ...

• Word Count: 3767
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate