Essays on Novel

In the story, Half Broke Horses, the author, Jeannette narrates the story of Lily Casey, her grandmother, from Lily's point of view. Hence, Lily is the main character in the novel, and the plot of the story primarily revolves around her. Lily was brought up in two different ranches, the...

In Krista Foss’s debut novel, the former journalist, teacher, and a writer residing in Smoke River, Hamilton, presents the impacts of land struggles over a region of new residential partition between the non-natives and the Mohawks. There is a high likelihood that the excerpt of Salamanders was most likely enthused...

The Southern Thruway by Julio Cortazar The Southern Thruway by Julio Cortazar is a narrative that revolves around the humans' collective response to a similar problem. The traffic jam experienced on the main highway from Southern France to Paris is characterized by the slow movement of cars, irritated drivers and passengers,...

Alice Walker's "Everyday Use": A Story of Heritage and Education Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” is a narrated story about a mother who has a conflicting relationship with her two daughters. The story is set in the sixties and seventies. Superficially, the story shows how the mother rejects her elder daughters' misplaced...

Edward Rochester is a controversial and fictitious character in the two books; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. In both novels, Mr. Rochester played a significant role though it is challenging to draw parallels between the two works. In both books, Rochester plays the...

In Neil Smith’s “Scrapbook”, he presents his characters as an aftermath of a massacre that has happened in Robertson Hall in Scotts University ten days ago. In the tragedy, ten victims lost their lives and more others like Thomas and Myuko narrowly escaped death. Although the survivors struggle to continue...

Through A Rose for Emily, Faulkner illustrates the fight that is brought about from an effort of maintaining culture and tradition when there is prevalent radical change. Characters such as Jefferson is seen to be at crossroads absorbing everything modern, hoping for a more commercial future while at the same...

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a book established on a dystopian culture in which the government gets along with the people via traditionalism. Conformity is the method of matching beliefs and attitudes. Numerous of the typescripts such as Beatty, Mildred, and others obey the government since that is how their...

The Complexity of Human Life The human life is viewed as a complex entity that is made of different components some of which involve interactions with others. As such, human life is depicted as a part of existing patterns which are larger than the human beings. Notably, the culture depicts the...

Eveline is a critical person because she takes time to analyze an action and its side effects before making a decision. For example, she has to judge the effects of either leaving or staying in her home. Besides, “She had hard work to keep the house together and to see...

The book “Silence and the Roar” was written by a Syrian author known as Nihad Sirees in 2008. The initial version of the book was written in Arabic, but it was later translated into English by Max Weiss in 2013. Silence and the roar is a novel that gives an...

There are divergent opinions concerning the success of Kate Chopin’s novel, “The Awakening,” in communicating its dominant theme of women empowerment and their subsequent ability to manage an independent life. While some readers regard Chopin’s novel a success, critics consider it a critical flop because it displays women as unable...