Novel Essay Examples Page 21

We are born with zero knowledge and for a split second with are full of love and oblivious to the hate that exists in our world. However, we are quickly taught what it means to be a woman or a man, what it means to have different sexual desires, etc. Our friends, our families, our…

In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled draws you in a devastating redemption story based in Afghanistan around the 1970-2000s. Amir, one of the main characters in the novel has a privileged life with major lessons, with guilt and redemption playing a major role in it. Amir is a young man that has made…

“The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference,” is one of the countless quotes recited by the legendary Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel as he reflected upon his time spent in Auschwitz at the concentration camp. As the Star of David glistened over and engulfed the concentration camp in Auschwitz, the oppressed had no idea…

As a New York Times Bestseller, The Fault In Our Stars, has been through a lot of critics and reviewing. Many consider this book a masterpiece of the modern era and although it may consists of two dying teenagers, the book strongly portrays what it means to feel alive and love someone. They say there…

Published in 1759 by Enlightenment pioneer, Voltaire, the satirical novella Candide, gives its readers an insight to the different philosophical ideas that sculpted this intelligent era. The novel opens following the protagonist, Candide, a light hearted, sheltered young man who resides at the Thunder-ten-tronckh castle with his affluent family in Westphalia. It is in the…

In Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood creates a dystopia. After an apocalyptic event, the society became very unequal with a mix of new technologies and poor government enforcement. The only human left on earth, Jimmy, had a tough childhood with his parent’s always fighting and eventually abandoning him. Jimmy lives the best way he knows…

In the Scarlet Letter, light and darkness is one of the main symbols present in the story. In the real world, light is a symbol for joyfulness, hope, and happiness while darkness is a symbol of despair, gloomy, and sadness. In the book, it’s the same concept light represent happiness and darkness represents secrecy and…

Most teenagers can agree to not understanding their parents unique form of humor. In this passage from “Kiss and Tell” by Alain de Botton, a comical scene is presented through situation, diction, the use of irony, and through his description of the predictable behavior of Isabel’s parents, defining the relatable embarrassment most children encounter with…

In Herman Melville’s 118th chapter of his novel Moby Dick, called The Quadrant, during the second paragraph he makes it quite easy to for readers to comprehend that in Japan, it is very hot during the summer. However, he doesn’t come right out and say this. He provides strong, literary descriptions, of the Japanese sun,…

Paton’s use of style in, Cry the beloved Country, creates a deeper meanings for the reader to fully grasp and understand what Paton is trying to say. Paton explores the struggles of society in South Africa. Paton uses style to show that men that become separated from others are prone to conflict and corruption. Paton’s…