Novel Essay Examples

            Tayama Katai’s “The Quilt” is regarded “as the prototypical shishosetsu” (Fowler xvi) and is often discussed as the first marker for the emergence of the genre which influenced almost every other writer/genre of the period. Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit in her book “Rituals of Self-Revelation: shishosetsu as a literary genre and socio cultural phenomenon” says “…

The nervous condition In the novel Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, the character Nyasha aptly describes the quandary that is postcolonial identity. “It would be a marvelous opportunity, she said sarcastically, to forget. To forget who you were, what you were and why you were that. The process, she said, was called assimilation, and that…

May Sarton’s novel, As We Are Now, tells the story of 76 year old Caroline (Caro) Spencer who has been placed in a nursing home by her family to live. However, Caro feels she has been dumped, abandoned, and left to die in what she refers to as a “concentration camp for the old.1” To…

Epiphany The experience of one being awakened to unforeseen thoughts or ideas is generally known as an epiphany. Many of Flannery O’Conner’s writings which comprises of tragic events that eventually lead his characters into appalling situations, ultimately serves as an example of some sort of revelation or epiphany to the character. One example of O’Conner’s…

“Fasting, Feasting” is a novel written by Anita Desai. This book is divided in two parts, one part from an India family point of view, and the other from an American family perspective. The title of this novel is greatly interesting because it is in two parts too. Fasting which means abstaining from all food,…

“Aggressive assimilation” of First Nations people was a policy developed by the Canadian government in the 19th century (Davidson, 2012). This policy was taught in the residential schools of Canada and has had a strong negative impact on the Canadian community. As Long as the Rivers Flow is a novel written by the former Lieutenant-Governor…

Moll Flanders(a brief summary)novel by Daniel Defoepaper by Sara SlaughterMoll Flanders is a story about the fall and rise of a beautiful woman who was born in Newgate Prison. Her mother was saved from the gallows because she pleaded her belly, and soon after Moll was born, her mother was shipped to the clonies to…

Imagine if there was no electricity, no computers, no cars, no smart phones. What if there was no “I” or “you,” or anything that allowed people to stand out from one another? In the novel Anthem, Ayn Rand creates a dystopia that is true of all those things, but still proves that liberation and hope…

When an individual is put into a new environment, conflict will transpire. In Willian Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, a group of youngboys get stranded on a deserted island due to an airplane accident. Thereare three very noticable conflicts in the story. There is man versus man,man versus nature and finally, man versus himself….

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about a society under threat, the Commander is the head of a household in the Republic of Gilead. He is an older man who is married but has no children. Children are very important in Gilead and the lack of them is the main reason the existing regime has occurred….