Great American Novel

Life is an unfair thing, in the 1930’s Harper Lee does a great way to show it. Harper Lee used real-life events as inspiration for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel, there are connections to the Jim Crow laws, and mob mentality. The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws were horrible for Blacks. “The Laws were an official effort to keep African Americans separate from Whites in the southern United States for many years” (“Jim Crow…

elements throughout the novels Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston and Beloved written by Toni Morrison contrast each other distinctly. Diction is the literary device that gives the author the opportunity to set the pathway of word choice. Zora Neale Hurston's word choice in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is what makes this novel extremely unique. Under the vast umbrella of diction themes, Hurston chose the theme of outdated African American slang. "’See, Ah told…

Cooper wanted to write about the American landscape and history in an effort to entertain his readers (Rosenblum). He then published his second novel, The Spy which was immensely popular and evolved into three editions, adapted for the New York stage and translated into French. The novel received equal criticism and gained him the title of “the first who deserved the appellation of a distinguished American novel writer” (Rosenblum). The next novel…

Daisy and Tom Buchanan live in a mansion in East Egg, the more ‘fashionable’ of the two, even though from a bird’s eye view they appear as two identically contoured formations of land separated only by a “courtesy bay”. However, on the ground, the eggs are different in every way except shape and size. On West Egg, houses appear designed with no apparent restrictions or codes, for example Nick’s bungalow squeezed between two mansions. Contrastingly, the mansions on East Egg appear as glittering…

The Reckoners is a series of popular young adult fantasy novels by Brandon Sanderson the American author. The first novel of the series was Steelheart that Sanderson first published in 2013 to much critical acclaim. Brian announced that the series will be a trilogy with the 2016 published Calamity the last novel in the series. The series is about a post-apocalyptic world that has a mysterious object start to orbit the planet. Out of nowhere random people start attaining super natural powers…

but didn't practice law, instead he started writing. He wrote three novels and a book containing short stories. His first novel was ''Moth Smoke'' that was published in 2000. His Second novel ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' was published in 2007. His novels have won awards and were became an International Best Seller. Literary works: The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A Novel Published: April 3rd, 2007 by Houghton Mifflin…

The now 74-year-old was born on the 2nd of March, 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire. He’s an American citizen who was actually born by the name John Wallace Blunt Jr. He lived with his mother and stepfather as a kid and used to join wrestling competitions at his school. He would eventually keep on wrestling for at least 20 years, as a youngster and as a coach. Many books of him contain references to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, as does the Cider House Rules. This happened because he got…

Indiana. He is an american author and he also does some acting. His impact on American Literature is romance. One of his first novels was Looking for Alaska, which had won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Awards. But John Green’s book The Fault in Our Stars is his 6th novel, but one of the best selling books. That novel alone had a gross “more than $300 million worldwide and certifying his status as a YA rock star.” according to (C+A). Which later turned into a movie the same with his novel Paper…

Although Margaret Mitchell wrote only one novel, she turned into an overall marvel coming to a great many perusers around the globe with her memorable novel Gone with the Wind. For this American Civil War-period novel, she won the National Book grant for Most Distinguished Novel in 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Gone with the wind set a business record of 50,000 duplicates in one day , one million in the initial six months and two million in the first year. The film, Gone with the Wind,…

Novel or Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936 in the United States, is a classic romantic novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937, a prestigious literary award. Gone with the Wind is about the character of Scarlett O'Hara, a beautiful, bright South girl with a lot of modern thinking and open-minded, open-minded and open-minded lifestyle. She represents the image of modern women in a new industrial society, aspires to enrich herself and assert her position in…