Dystopian novels

Picking Up The Pieces Little Bee is a fiction novel written by Chris Cleave. Little Bee is narrated by Little Bee and Sarah who live in two different countries but a tragic encounter brings them together. This novel is about a little girl that is captured and placed in a refugee detention, where she compared herself to a British coin. She is frightened and feel abandoned because she has no one to talk or interact with. She goes through so many emotions and issues to press forward with her…

Perhaps one of the greatest novels of our time, 1984 has stood out as a tale that not only serves as a warning to those who would passively watch as injustice was done, but also accurately portrays the ugly sides of human nature. Endowed with many literary themes that arise throughout the novel, the most common and overwhelming theme is “man vs. institution” or “man vs. society” . In the accurate portrayal and address of these many themes, 1984 serves to teach us that while institutions and the…

peers with this in consideration, but it would have been better if performed earlier on in this novel unit. I liked performing the Think Aloud with Ville and I feel that he would have comprehended much more of the text if he was able to work one-to-one with the teacher during the reading groups. I feel that this would have been able to encourage Ville to use different strategies throughout the entire novel to help his comprehension rather than just the final chapters. Additionally, I sense that…

and fiction as he articulates a credible collection of war stories. O’Brien takes the unique role in the novel as an imaginary character created from a blend of real and fabricated elements, but he still makes sure to elucidate that the novel is merely a work of his imagination. Nevertheless, this style of autobiographical fiction forces readers to question the fictional nature of the novel. O’Brien himself understands the blurred line separating fact from fiction, and he discusses the…

deeper meaning to their stories and help readers to understand the ways characters act. Biblical allusions are not always obvious and easy to see; sometimes you have to be able to recognize the main idea because the details are not all the same. The novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez is filled with biblical allusions, such as Patria building her home on rock alludes to Matthew 7:24, in which the Bible says that those who build their house on rock will not be brought down by…

Persuasion is a novel by Jane Austen that portrays the Elliot family (which in this time is head by the Baronet Sir Walter Elliot), and their friends with a third-person omniscient narrator. The book takes place in early nineteenth century England during the Napoleonic Wars and also takes place in the same universe of one of Jane Austen’s earlier and most popular book Pride and Prejudice. Throughout the book, several characters such as Sir Walter and Anne Elliot are persuaded that their first…

predictions of our present culture to actual post-modern novelistic examples, from reality to technological attributions, politics and intertextuality, the explanations for the deterioration in literary creativity and quality vary widely. The fate of the novel has taken a turn for the worse since post-modernism began in the 1950’s simply because people have lost their sense of reality in the world. Authors in this generation merely rewrite the past and foresee the future; in this process we’ve…

of the Flies, by William Golding, is a compelling and interesting novel that has changed the name of literature and captured every reader into a trance of wonder and awe. Lord of the Flies is interpreted many different ways depending on how the reader sees it. But who actually knows what the author was thinking when he wrote Lord of the Flies? Golding makes good vs evil extremely prominent in Lord of the Flies. Throughout the novel we see many internal and external struggles depicted between…

work and it was hard to follow at some points. I think maybe he did this because he did not have an exact or clear idea to follow through with in the novel. He incorporates: The poachers, Dewar and Dunbar, with their cargo of pilfered eggs; Esther the observant kitchen maid, pining to be reunited wither vanished admirer; the ancient lawyer Mr. Crabbe made careless by snobbery; John Carstairs, in search of his cousin, the elusive widow; an enigmatic debt-collector, busily plotting an audacious…

act of encoding and retrieving information, is vital in everyday life, while allowing individuals to recall both the positive and negative aspects. The readers are a witness to how memory is highlighted throughout the novel and are shown how memory is indeed significant. This novel provides the reader with an insight to the raw emotion and the instinctive capability of memory at war. Not only do weapons keep you protected, but they can also can kill you, memory itself does the same. Tim O’Brien,…