For example, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling became famous, and is still very famous to this day. Younger boys and girls also had literature aimed specifically at them – the ‘Girls Own Paper’ and the ‘Boys Own Paper’. These reached a circulation of more than half a million, full of heroic stories about British lads in Empire. As the children could relate to the characters in these stories, imperialism was made more popular amongst the young too. The press reached a massive audience in Britain at the time, spreading news of Empire to all.
The plot is set up in a way that causes it to be quite interesting to even those who are most loathing of history. Giardina does a remarkable job of telling a compelling and gripping story, creating authentic and believable characters, and evoking moods that enhance the setting of the novel. The story is not told from solely one point of view as most novels are. In Giardina’s cogent novel there are four different narrators that each contribute their own perspective of the events surrounding the coal war and the Battle of Blair Mountain. The four narrators are; CJ Marcum, Rondal Lloyd, Carrie Bishop, and Rosa Angelelli.
NAME Teacher CLASS DATE Literary Analysis on “A Rose for Emily” For as long as anyone can remember, great authors have come and gone making their marks in history. In the most recent of those centuries, we have been blessed with the sensual vividness of remarkable writers such as Flannery O’Conner or Edgar Allan Poe. However, being perhaps the most provocative writer of southern sensibility, William Faulkner certainly stands out from the rest. Though he has written numerous novels and short stories, his most famous would have to be “A Rose for Emily.” Being a model expression of American Gothicism, “A Rose for Emily” uses strong characterization, a stimulating mystery, and an ironic twist at every turn. Perhaps one of the most interesting things I find about this story is the unique use of characterization.
H.M Tomlinson once said, “The right good book is always a book about travel, it is about a life’s journey”. Tomlinson means that the best types of books are the books about a life’s journey, both in which character mature and gain valuable insight to allow them to complete their travels. The epic The Odyssey by Homer and the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd are both quite popular for this reason. Good books come in a variety of styles and plots; some of them are bildungsromans, others are made for comical reasons. However the best of them all are the books focus on a protagonist’s journey to become a better person.
There is no doubt that one of the most important literary elements in a work is characterization: The creation of a group of personalities who function as representatives of a fictional world are as vital to a novel's story as its many themes. For Twain, the challenge was to embody fictional characters with realistic traits and personalities; that is, his characters had to be as believable and as recognizable as the people readers confronted every day. To accomplish this feat, Twain frequently called upon his childhood experiences to create some of the most memorable characters in American literature. The expanse of characters that blanket the pages of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are numerous. Certainly Huck is an incredible character study, with his literal and pragmatic approach to his surroundings and his constant battle with his conscience.
These topical matters which Yolen has used are the holocaust, and the fairy-tale sleeping beauty or less commonly known as briar rose. Both these subject matters are well known in society and have had huge impacts on history. Being such well known subject matters instantly engages the audience as they are able to apply their knowledge and to make cross-links between the two subject matters. Intertextuality of any text will be intriguing and engaging as the audience is able to compare and to know the basic outline of what is to come, this could be considered dramatic irony. The symbolism of the holocaust is engaging as fairy-tales are always considered to have a happy ending but using such a dark topical matter which seems to have no happy outcomes is able to surprise the audience and to keep them reading as the audience is waiting to see the “Happily ever after” (pg.
Many novels in this genre tackle personal issues such as dating, relationships, weight issues, life issues and many more. Often told from a point of view that pulls the audience in as if the narrator is confiding in them, Chick Lit novels offer something to identify with, and a great percentage of the audience take comfort from this. I love the odd book to read that’s light and funny and easy going and I am one hundred per cent a sucker for a happy ending; everything that is beheld in a Chick Lit novel, but can we call it literature and is it really any good when compared to Authors such as Stephen King and
The fascinating thing is that these depictions of McCarthy’s imagination are intertwined with real places and characters that resemble people of those areas in that time period. The true beauty of novels is the personal interpretations of the author’s work and visualizing the scenes and characters in our own perspective. Filmmakers experience this when they read these novels and it allows them to a create films that closely depict the novel while putting their own spin on it. One of Cormac McCarthy’s fine works is the novel No Country For Old Men. The Cohen brothers produced this award winning adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel that follows the story very closely, while many small details are either excluded or altered to fit the film.
His wonderful novellas The Pearl, Cannery Row, The Red Pony, and Of Mice and Men not only introduce readers to a fascinating, realistic cast of characters, make the hills and seacoast of California and Mexico come to life, but also tell intriguing stories of the lives of real people. Steinbeck's characters are not the rich men and women of California's boom days, but are the homeless, the migrant workers, the poor fishermen, and the farmers. However, each of these people has a deceptively simple, but important story to tell, a story filled with love and pain. The stories tell us not only of the lives of the poor
Findings and Discussion According to the researcher, “Ligeia” is an interesting work which has a lot of gothic elements. Many researches who are interested in literature consider “Ligeia” as a gothic work because of its theme, and the horror elements which are used in the story. The strange love between the narrator and Ligeia makes the work interesting. First of all, readers come across Ligeia in the very first lines of the story. The strangeness of Ligeia’s and the narrator’s love is clear in these lines: I CANNOT, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia.