Essays Tagged: "Autobiographical novel"
Growth Through Oppression
In Richard Wright's autobiographical novel, Black Boy, the south is depicted as a bleak place where Wright is exposed to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Richard Wright - A Hungry Black Boy
ack of nourishment from food. Richard Wright is certainly no stranger to that form of hunger in his autobiographical novel Black Boy, but he uses this physical hunger as a symbol of the larger emptine ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Alice Walker The Color Purple and Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the Only Fruit comparing religion in both novels. Celie and Jeanette.
say concentrates on the theme of religion in two Novels. "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" is a semi-autobiographical novel by Jeanette Winterson, set in the North of England. "The Color Purple" is an ... cters as human as possible in that letter writing is a very personal way of communicating. The semi-autobiographical form used by Winterson also adds a certain human nature to the novel, as the experi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Richard Rodriquez: The Hunger of Memory
social aspects of assimilation of Latin American culture into the United States, Richard Rodriquez' autobiographical novel, The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriquez deals with challeng ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
"Confessions of a Mask": Kochan (Narrator) Character Analysis
In his semi-autobiographical novel, "Confessions of a Mask", by Yukio Mishima examines the struggle for acceptan ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
How successful is Bronte in engaging the reader's interest in her character and establishing the concerns of the novel "Jane Eyre" in chapter one?
'Jane Eyre' is a semi-autobiographical novel first published in October 1847 by Charlotte Bronte under the pseudonym of Cu ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Hunger as a Theme in "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Throughout the autobiographical novel "Black Boy", Richard Wright uses hunger to symbolize struggle in his life. He ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Explore two characters' different responses to the consequences of revenge: "Sleepers" by Lorenzo Carcaterra
“Revenge. Sweet lasting revenge”. The autobiographical novel by Lorenzo Carcatterra is a compelling true story about the depth of friendsh ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Siddartha
In the chapter titled The Son in Siddhartha, an allegorical, perhaps autobiographical, novel by Herman Hesse, set in a mythical place in India, Siddhartha experienced ex ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Anzaldua
Gloria Anzaldúa's autobiographical novel Borderlands/La Frontera explores, performs, and exhibits the experience of li ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Jane Eyre
te, and is one of the first novels to use a woman as a main character in the Victorian era. It?s an autobiographical novel, where the author gathered together the recent experiences of her childhood a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Out of Africa: A Self-Portrait of Karen Blixen
Out of Africa, Karen Blixen's autobiographical novel, recounts the author's 17-year ownership of a Kenyan coffee-plantation. Throu ... ropeans such as Old Knudsen, Berkeley Cole, and Denys Finch-Hatton. Though this novel is considered autobiographical, Blixen frequently focuses on "supporting characters" rather than on her own feelin ... free-spirited and curious about the world around her.Though Blixen's Out of Africa is considered an autobiographical novel, the author seldom gives direct commentary on her own thoughts and opinions. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Sylvia Plath and Lewis Carroll- How meaning is discovered throughout the poems, "Elm" Plath and "Jabbawocky" Carroll
s often been associated with Plath's personal experiences of these issues which are divulged in her autobiographical novel "The Bell Jar." Having an understanding of the authors' background and influe ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
Antiwar theme in "Slaughterhouse-Five"
n also be interpreted as an anti-war piece.The novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" can be interpreted as an autobiographical novel, therefore, this story relates with author's life and experience. Kurt Vonneg ... nstuck in time'.Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five can be viewed in many ways. It can be seen as a semi-autobiographical novel, science fiction novel, and as an anti-war piece of writing.First part of the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
charles dickens
ritics consider the novel to be one of his best depictions of childhood.Even though the novel is an autobiographical novel, it differs from Charles Dickens's own life in some key ways. Dickens had a r ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics
Glass Armonica
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts