Novel Essay Examples Page 22

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves”- Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, noticeably lacks a cast of strongly independent female characters. Shelley’s novel depicts the dominant role that men have over women and eventually the women’s fall due to their dominance. Although the women in the novel…

The Holocaust, we have seen movies, read books, and learned about it in history class, but how much do we really know? Can we really understand what went on and how it affected not only those that did not survive but also those did survive? In Maus and Maus II by Art Spiegleman, we are…

Baba is Amir’s father and a husband to Sofia Akrami: the most respected women in Kabul. His life revolved around trying to prove many people wrong that had doubted him. Many expected him to study law because his dad was a judge; however, Baba decided to not only run his own business and he becomes…

What if there was a world without memory, choice, or emotion? Could a world truly exist in those conditions? In Lois Lowry’s Newbery Award-winning novel The Giver, the main character, Jonas, lives in a world exactly as described. In his community, nobody at all can remember anything, choose, or feel any emotion. All of these…

The book I read was called Candide and was written by Francios Marie Arouet also known as Voltaire. Voltaire was born in Paris France in 1694. The book Candide was published by Voltaire in 1759. The book was given to our class because it was written by a philosopher during the Age of Enlightenment which…

In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, fourteen-year-old Lily Melissa Owens grows from a child to a young adult without help from her parents. It is hard to grow yourself and educate yourself when you are alone. Lily’s father T-Ray was there but he was not supportive and did not love her…

Her last words were actually what Antonio requested her to do, which was to receive a blessing. Her last words also represent the bond she had created with Tony, “Always have the strength to live. Love life, and if despair enters your heart, look for me in the evenings when the wind is gentle and…

It could speculated to be said that “Pet Sematary”, by Stephen King is a story about the dangers of wanting something so badly, we no longer care about the consequences. While this is partly-true, there is a deeper meaning buried in the pages of Pet Sematary.  As King brings readers through Louis’s series of bad…

As human’s life has been developed due to the significant improvement in science, people are more reliable on machines and technology. The more people find those new developments are helpful that they cannot have such a good life without them, the more they invisibly control human’s life. The book “Brave New World,” written by Aldous…

Like any telenovela, ‘La esclava blanca’ has a good dose of love, revenge and betrayal. However, there is an element that differentiates it: the context in which the story takes place: the last years of slavery in Colombia. Slaves crammed into a story scene. In that sense, it seems worthy to praise that the writers…