Novel Essay Examples Page 17

Throughout Herman Hesse’s novel, Siddhartha, Siddhartha constantly faces the challenge of learning from elders around him, allowing him to come to the conclusion that wisdom, in fact, cannot be passed on from person to person. For example, it is evident that even from the start of the book that Siddhartha has learned all he can…

Man’s Search for Meaning is about a Jewish author, Victor Frankl, and his experience in a concentration camp and his attempts to understand the trauma from that experience and those alike to help himself and others overcome these sorts of situations. During this time, Frankl was a psychiatrist in Vienna. Despite his Jewish faith, he…

I chose the banned book That was Then, This is Now by Susan Eloise Hinton. This book published in 1971 and in the 1960’s in the bad part of Tulsa, Oklahoma. This book is banned from a lot of states, It has censored and challenged in other states. It has been banned because of its…

In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad does not portray a completely positive or negative attitude about imperialism, but rather appears to waver between supporting its ideology and denouncing its sins. When considered its historical context, this novel presents a very specific attitude about Africa held by Europeans, i.e. that the conquest of Africa was essential…

Would you care if your parents suddenly just went missing? Or if you were accused of a crime you did not commit ? how would you seek justice and redemption? Most would resort to getting a lawyer or a defense, however when the entire society is against you how will you manage to do so?….

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a dystopian novel follow by Bernard Marx, a Citizen of The World State, who is the odd one out in a futurist world. Men and women are given equal opportunities for the most part, where there is world peace, no war plus everything that occurs or happens is one’s…

The Jungle is an interesting, but very somber read. It is a story of a Lithuanian family who moves to Chicago in pursuit of the “American Dream.” Jurgis Rudkus, the male head of the family, and main character, convinces his family that America is the land of opportunity, alluding to the possibilities for the future…

Voltaire’s novel Candide is about the adventures of an optimistic young man named Candide, and his journey into manhood. In the beginning Candide, whom at this time is living in his uncle’s castle, was taught by the prominent philosopher, Pangloss. Pangloss teaches the ideals of Optimism. Throughout the novel Pangloss’s teachings becomes coined into one…

During the Dust Bowl farmers were some of the most affected by The Great Depression and Dust Bowl and they had to abandon their home and go to states like California. In Grapes of Wrath, there were fliers that said there were jobs there hiring and offering a lot of money to the workers. The…

One of the best virtues being open to learning from others. A way to explore this is through the lens of spirituality or religion. Protagonists in The Fall, by Albert Camus, and Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse, use this idea in their quest of fulfillment but take very different routes to get there. In Siddhartha, spirituality…