Novel Lolita And The Enchanter Essay Examples

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An Analysis of the Novel, The Scarlet Letter (1454 words, 4 pages)

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is considered to be one of the greatest examples of true American literature. Its excellency of topic, characterization, and description has made it a permanent part of our history. Set in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1600s, it describes the life of Hester Prynne, ... Read More

An Analysis of a Novel by Ninotchka Rosca (1454 words, 2 pages)

A seemingly timeless festival is happening amidst a war that knows no end. This was the recurring image of this powerful novel by Ninotchka Rosca. Set in the Marcos era, a time of violence and turmoil, it displays the brutality and beauty of humanity in its cast of colorful characters ... Read More

A Comparison of the Components of Novels and History (715 words, 1 pages)

Novels vs. History History is based on facts novels are grounded in the authors imagination. Novels make interesting reading but are not particularly useful in studying history. After reading this quote, I thought deeply about was this person was trying to say. There are not many novels out there that ... Read More

A Novel Analysis of A Christmas Carol (1800 words, 3 pages)

Novel Analysis on A Christmas Carol The novel chosen, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was first printed in 1843. The 1963 edition written in prose, published by Macmillan Publishing Company is the version chosen to analyze. The central purpose or theme of this novel is to look at the ... Read More

A Review of the Novel, Don Quixote (1658 words, 3 pages)

Don Quixote is among the most influential novels ever written. It explores a myriad of imperative themes that profoundly effect human nature. Such gargantuan themes include the shifting boundaries of truth and illusion, how society views justice and morality, and the eternal quest for love. Yet, underling all of these ... Read More

An Analysis of the Dickens’ Novel (1234 words, 2 pages)

Early in the Novel Dickens turns pip into a snob, How does Dickens show the process and the result of this change? This story is focused around the life of a boy called Pip who lives on the forge with his sister and her husband Joe. Pip's relationship with his ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel The Rainmaker by Grisham (204 words, 1 pages)

Summers are hot in Memphis, and the sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt. His creditors are biting at his heels and the future's not looking too good. Once he had ideas of breezing his way through law school and jumping on the dollar train to anywhere. Now he doesn't ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novels by Dostoevsky (3953 words, 11 pages)

In Dostoevsky's novels pain and some heavy burden of the inevitability of human suffering and helplessness form Russia. And he depicts it not with white gloves on, nor through the blisters of the peasant, but through people who are close to him and his realities city people who either have ... Read More

An Analysis of the Point of View in a Novel (1323 words, 3 pages)

The point of view is "Eye of God,' but sometimes it speaks out the main character's thoughts as if it were him narrating it. Passage "Richard looked up. A boy dressed in baggy jeans and a thick, army-green sweater was pushing his way towards them. He was about the same ... Read More

Analysis of The Uses of Enchantment, Essay by Bruno Bettelheim (1007 words, 2 pages)

In Bruno Bettelheims essay, The Uses of Enchantment, he explains the fairy tale of Snow White in a way which makes the reader think critically. He makes the reader explore their mind to better understand a tale in a way, which they have not explored. This essay begins with Bettelheim ... Read More

A Review of the Novel Jane Eyre (1118 words, 2 pages)

The novel "Jane Eyre" has been a book of many generations. It is very well written for the time it was portrayed. The sorrow and defeats a person goes through in their life is brought to the surface in "Jane Eyre", causing this novel to be a great book for ... Read More

A Review of the Novel War and Peace (897 words, 2 pages)

War and peace opens in the Russian city of St. Petersburg in 1805, as Napoleon's conquest of western Europe is just beginning to stir fears in Russia. Many of the novel's characters are introduced at a society hostess's party, among them Pierre Bezukhov, the socially awkward but likeable illegitimate son ... Read More

Analysis of the Novel Cloudstreet by Winston (1893 words, 2 pages)

ClOUDSTREET By Tim Winton The title, Cloudstreet, although a bit plain, couldn't be more appropriately named as everything that happens within the story revolves around the house nicknamed Cloudstreet. Winton sets this book around Perth, Western Australia, around the time of the second end of the Second World War over ... Read More

An Analysis of a Novel To Kill a Mockingbird (744 words, 1 pages)

Scout Finch lives with her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus, in the Alabama town of Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a lawyer and the Finch family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of society. One summer, Jem and Scout become ... Read More

Lies in the Novel Death of a Salesman (273 words, 1 pages)

Death of a Salesman A lying man lies himself to death. In the book Death of a Salesman, the Loman family never tells the truth, not even for ten minutes. They try to tell the truth, but it always comes out a lie and eventually lies turn into death. One ... Read More

An Analysis of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1608 words, 2 pages)

During a lifetime, one sees many things that go beyond the realm of what we may want to deal with in our everyday lives. Horrific acts of violence and sexual malevolence are committed by people everyday. Yet, somehow, we just accept these facts. So how is it, exactly, that one ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel The Bluest Eye (501 words, 1 pages)

Background Published in 1970, The Bluest Eye came about at a critical moment in the history of American civil rights. Morrison began Pecola's story as a short piece in1962 it became a novel-in-progress by 1965. It was written, as one can see from the dates, during the years of some ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel Beloved (668 words, 1 pages)

"Beloved" Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death who has lost a husband and buried a child who has borne the unthinkable of killing her baby and not gone ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel Marianela (974 words, 2 pages)

Teodoro Golfn goes to visit Florentina where she is staying. This is where Marianella is sick. The room a good size, with several chairs and a desk. In the middle of the room, there was a long couch with a body on it. The body was Marianella's. She is sleeping ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel Ashes of Izalco (1304 words, 2 pages)

ASHES OF IZALCO I found the beginning of this book quite confusing. I had a difficult time discerning who the main characters were and what was the plot. I also wasnt quite sure when the Mother had died and it wasnt until later that I realized the reason that Carmen ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel White Fang (1038 words, 2 pages)

"White Fang" begins with two men and a group of six sled dogs traveling across the Arctic with carrying a deceased man in a coffin. Little to their knowledge, they were followed by a pack of famished wolves. Every night, a female "half-wolf-half-dog" would seduce one of the pack's dogs ... Read More

Tips on How to Write a Novel (1863 words, 3 pages)

I began by thinking that for all novels this must be true. The very writing of a book implicates humans - even if the subject matter is the cretaceous period or the moon - because to write you have to have opposable thumbs. Snide remarks about the fact that I'm ... Read More

An Analysis of White Butterfly a Novel (647 words, 1 pages)

White Butterfly What makes the novel White Butterfly a popular one is due to the way it was written. How certain techniques are used in this novel to affect the readers in a certain way. This technique is formula, how a certain system is used to communicate with the audience. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel The Hitchhiker (1135 words, 2 pages)

Grade 8 Book Report The Hitchhiker By R.L. Stine 3. Give a brief description of the plot in the story The plot in this story is based on a guy named James who has left from home in Key West (A place in Florida) he ran away for no in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel of Mice and Men (852 words, 1 pages)

Of Mice and Men The novel opens with the description of a riverbed in rural California. Two migrant workers, George and Lennie, camp for the night in a river bottom. Lennie is a large, gentle mentally retarded man, devoted to George and dependant upon him for protection and guidance. Lennie ... Read More

A Summary of the Novel Hatchet (635 words, 1 pages)

Brian Robeson, a thirteen-year-old from New York City, boards a plan headed from Hampton, New York to the Canadian north woods to visit his father. His parents' recent divorce weighs heavily on him, as does "The Secret" that his mother is having an affair. The pilot gives him a very ... Read More

The History and Evolution of the Novel (1441 words, 3 pages)

4. The novel from 1881 to 1914 Over the eighteen eighties there was a split in fiction. The first indication towards it was Henry James' essay "The Art of Fiction" (1884), which referred to the novelist's calling as a "Sacred office". Besides, there appeared a stratification of fiction due to ... Read More

The Punishment in the Novel The Scarlet Letter (1163 words, 2 pages)

A classic by any definition, The Scarlet Letter is a constant reminder that no sin goes unpunished. For Hester Pryne punishment was instilled upon the center of her being by a blood scarlet 'A' upon her chest. Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered by many to be the master of the short ... Read More

An Analysis of the Structure of the Novel The Collector (1620 words, 2 pages)

The Collector The Collector is the story of the abduction and imprisonment of Miranda Grey by Frederick Clegg, told first from his point of view, and then from hers by means of a diary she has kept, with a return in the last few pages to Clegg's narration of her ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel The Government Inspector (1182 words, 2 pages)

Russia in the 19th Century was a country full of corruption, and battles between social classes. As state secondary school and university education became more readily available, the number of educated gentry grew. As there were more people who fitted into the elitist category, rather than being serfs, the upper ... Read More