Novel of Manners Triin Kont Nove of Manners The Novel of Manners is a realistic novel 1. It comes from England which developed in the nineteenth century That focuses on the customs, values, and 2. Jane Austen was the mindset of a particular class or group of people who are situated in a specific producer of this form and historical context. also the most sucsessful writer in this form Although the novel of manners has always defied easy definition, literary historians seem to have arrived at a 3. Its subject is the set of consensus on at least three elements: social conventions of a particular class in a particular time and place The novel of manners is do...
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club o Author Chuck Palahniuk o Year 1996 o Genre Satirical novel o Country United States Characters o The Narrator Main character, name never mentioned throughout the novel, founder of Fight Club o Tyler Durden founder of Fight Club o Marla Singer A woman whom the narrator met at a support group, Tyler's lover, extremely grungy, uncaring and suicidal Characters o Angel Face joined Fight Club, very loyal, very beautiful (hence his name), suffers a brutal beating by the narrator because he "wanted to destroy something beautiful" o Robert "Bob" Paulson main character meets him at a support group, later meets him again in Fight Club, former bodybuilder, increased estrogen level caused him to grow large "Bitch Tits" and develop a softer voice Plot o A product recall specialist suffering from d...
Jane Austen "Pride & Prejudice" Pride and Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, has consistently been Jane Austen's most popular novel. Austen sold the copyright for Pride and Prejudice to Thomas Egerton. Egerton published the first edition of Pride and Prejudice in three hardcover volumes in January. The tone is light and a little humoristic. Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility. At first the book was called "First impressions" and this gives a better expression to the requests of the author, than the later heading. People meet, do not understand each other and communication does not offer joy either. So this is contrary to love at first sight. It is a tale of love and values in the class-conscious England of the late 18th century. It is a story of five sisters and their lives. It is a story through the dangerous, exciting and loving feelings of the characters. The Bennets five ...
Waiting is a novel written by Ha Jin, who is a Chinese author. The book is based on a true story that author had heard from his wife while visiting her family in China. This novel won the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction. It's a story about an army doctor Lin Kong, who is married to Shuyu and it is embarrasing for Ling Kong because of Shuyu's wizened face and bound feet. Lin falls in love with Manna, who's a nurse at Lin's hospital. By regulations is Lin forbid to divorce his wife until 18 years have passed. Every year Lin goes to her wife and asks for divorce, so he could marry Manna, but her wife Shuyu won't give him a divorce. Lin goes back to his hospital and disappoints Manna every year. Because of Lin's marriage they're not even allowed to walk together in public. At last Lin managed to get a divorce from her wife Shuyu. He married to Manna Wu and they had expected it to be happy marriage, but it wasn't. They didn't enjoy thei...
How Are Black Women Portrayed in the Novel? The story begins in the early nineteenth century when the main protagonist Antoinette is a young girl. A white girl Antoinette is the daughter of the ex-slave owners, but it is the time when the passage of the Emancipation Act takes places. This means that black slaves are freed and led to the demise of many white slave owners. Because of this act, black men and women start to feel more powerful and superior towards the ex-slave owners. Throughtout Antoinette´s childhood, hostility is present between the weakened white aristocracy and the black servants they employ. On account of this situation, black women feel themselves more independent and strong. First of all, when the slaves are free and there is no need to work for others anymore, many servants leave their employers and turn their back on them. For example, there is a young black girl named Tia who is the daughter of an attend...
Jane Austen "Pride and prejudice" "Pride and prejudice" is a widely beloved novel because it makes people laugh and think. It was first published in 1813 and since then it has been truly loved novel for younger and older people. As well as that, the critics liked it too. So it's not only publics favourite but also smarter people love it. I think that the main reason so many like it, is because it's unpredictable and understable. In addition it's not very difficult to read. But I had to read the novel from laptop and that made my eyes hurt, so that really didn't work for me. Novel has been classified as a classic love story. That is one big reason why I loved this book. I love those classic love stories, that are just so good and make me think along. I haven't seen the movie, so that gave me free hands to imagine the story like I would like. It's not only me who can imagine the people and places in my mind, I think that's the reason to...
Mari-Liis Luukas Dorian Gray the Prince of Everlasting Youth The novel which describes the life story of Dorian Gray is out of the ordinary. It might have been a long time ago when it was written, but I haven't heard of a similar idea such as the starting point of the events. In the beginning Dorian was a young undamaged simple boy and I think that Basil was right to have the wish to prevent Dorian meeting Harry. When Dorian hears the ideas that Harry has for life of pleasure, beauty and youth, he adopts them immediately. As he sees his portrait, Dorian becomes aware of his beauty and says the fateful wish that if only he could remain young and the portrait would become old. The first sign that his wish had become true is seen when Dorian is very heartless and rude to Sibyl Vane, an actress to whom he wanted to marr...
First snow It was unusually hot in my small bedroom when I woke up. As I looked at the clock, it was only 7.30 in the morning and I was still dead tired from my last night`s birthday party. I didn´t feel any strenght left in my muscles but nevertheless I walked across my bedroom to turn the radiator down. That was strange. The heat wasn´t on. When I opened the window to let in some cooling autumn air I saw something slowly falling from the sky. It was too early for the first snow and also the weather was also unusually warm. I opened the window even more to get rid of that suffocating air stuck inside the room but that made it even worse, all the breathable air seemed to fly out. Next, I quickly closed the window and rushed to the bathroom where I was about to take a refreshing cold shower. As I put my head under the cooling water, I realized that something was wrong. The water looked da...
Kazuo Ishiguro Gertrud Tamm 11.A Kazuo Ishiguro Born in Japan in 1954 British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer Enrolled at the University of Kent Master’s degree from the University of East Anglia’s creative-writing course married to Lorna MacDougall, a social worker, since 1986 Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world Work Novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982) An Artist of the Floating World (1986) The Remains of the Day (1989) The Unconsoled (1995) When We Were Orphans (2000) Never Let Me Go (2005) The Buried Giant (2015) The Remains of the Day (1989) It is a story about an English butler who has dedicated his life to the loyal service of Lord Darlington. The novel begins with Stevens receiving a letter from a former colleague, Miss Kenton, describing her married life, w...
Human nature exposed in G.Orwell's ,,Animal Farm" Humans are the most deceitful animals in the World. Even if we do not want to confess it to ourselves, we have to accept the fact that humans constantly change their ways of thinking and acting to make the World a better place to live in for themselves. Our lives are fulfilled with lies we enter to our or someone else's mind. A lot of it is connected to people's constant need of power and control. "Animal Farm" is a book that reverberates that kind of human nature through politics, dictatorship and power, but in nowadays' World this kind of behaviour occurs also in our everyday life, not only politics. First of all humans are in a constant need of power. The essence of the power does not even matter as long as they have some kind of control. It could be control over some group, over a person and his mind, actions and thoughts or just over a certain situation where we wa...
Discuss the representation of the generation of fathers in Turgenev's novel "Fathers and Sons" Turgenev always had two tasks before him to depict the body and pressure of time, and to depict the rapidly changing face of cultured Russian society (Freeborn 1960:48). Kluchevsky (1993:40) defined one case of the generation gap in the beginning of the XIX century as "merry cosmopolitan sentimentality of the fathers now transformed in a patriotic grief of their children. The Fathers were Russians, who passionately wanted to become French; the sons were raised as French and passionately wanted to become Russians. Fathers and Sons situates this generational conflict within family relations. In this essay, the ways how Turgenev represents the generation of Fathers in Fathers and Sons is discussed. Fathers and Sons is set in between Russia's defeat in the Crimean War and the Emancipation of the Serfs a socially challenging area. Mid-19 th c...
The Catcher in the Rye Despite being written in the beginning of the 1950s, for me “The Catcher in the Rye” is a novel that many youngsters to this day can relate to. The book tells the story of a troubled teenager Holden Caulfield, who sets off on a short trip to New York, after being expelled from yet another private school, to avoid facing his parents. His dark and at times depressive thoughts and emotions have been mixed with humour and brutal reality, making this book stirring to read. The novel is a fantastic example of the coming of age genre, thanks to its various themes of rebellion, emotional and mental growth and indifferent, “I couldn’t care less” attitude. The themes are apparent throughout the novel, giving the reader a clear view of what it’s like to be a teenager, who has no idea what to do with their life. The rebellious tone of the novel and its characters shines out right from the...
Film review „Chocolat“ Chocolat is a 2000 American-British romantic drama film that is based on the novel with the same name by Joanne Harris. Chocolat was directed by Lasse Hallström. Filming took place between May and August 2000. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It was also nominated for eight BAFTs (British Acedemy of Film and Television Arts) and four Golden Globes. Chocolat begins with arrival of Vianne Rocher in a tiny French village. She is a single mother with a young daughter. In village was the beginning of fasting and people weren’t eating so much. Vianne moves with her daughter into a disused bakery facing the church, where a man - Francis Reynaud - watches her arrival with disapproval and is suspicious. When he realizes that Vianne wants to open a chocolate shop in place of the old bakery, influencing the church-go...
Test on Romantic Poetry and Prose 1. Approximate dates of romanticism: in the second half of the 18th century. Major events on world history at that time: · Industrial revolution · In America the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 · The French Revolution, 1789 · The King of England was George III, after him George IV and then Queen Victoria Outcomes: · Revolution did not bring welfare · Lives of the lower-classes worsened · Extended the distance between the lower and upper class · The rich got richer, the poor got poorer 2. Romanticism is a reaction against classicism, science and atomic (aesthetic ideal of order and unity) worldview. Romantic ideal is the organic world. Romanticism: · Returns to nature and belief in the goodness of mankind · Exaltation of the senses and emotion overcome reason and intellect i...
Ameerika Kirjandus 30.01.13 Naturalism · France, Emile Zola · Put down his theory in 1879: Le Roman Experimental, attempt to explain the development of human society throuch biological laws · Outlook is deterministic, pessimistic, fatalistic (fate or biology) · Man as an animal-clever than other beasts, still explainable within the framework · Man is not a free agent, is govern by something · Unable to determine his own faith · Hereditary · Naturalists tried to apply in fiction the processes of natural sciences · Writers task is to record facts, systems of behaviour, living conditions, never revealing any natural unbiased (completely natural) · Point of view: amoral-outside the category of morality, neither good or bad · Naturalist find it absurd to blame the wicked. These criminals are doing what nature, environment, their unconscious tells them to do. Naturalists do not ...
The bluest eye I read a book called The bluest eye by Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. It is Morrison's first novel, written while she was teaching at Howard University and was raising her two sons on her own. It is a novel publiched in 1970. It is set in 1941 in Ohio. The main character is Pecola Breedlove, a poor black girl who believes she is ugly. Then there is her father, Cholly Breedlove, who is an alcoholic and her two best friends Claudia and Frieda MacTeer. Claudia and Frieda MacTeer live in Ohio with their parents. The MacTeer family takes two other people into their home, Mr. Henry and Pecola. Pecola is a troubled young girl with a hard life. Her parents are constantly fighting, both physically and verbally. Pecola is continually being told and reminded of what an "ugly" girl she is and that's why ...
Dan Brown 22 June 1964 in New Hampshire (USA) an American author of thriller fiction best known bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code. of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories historical and regilios motifs. into over 40 languages as of 2009 sold over 80 million copies. In 1991 to Hollywood - taught classes at Beverly Hills Preparatory School. 1993 - english teacher 1996 a full-time writer journolist Works CDs SynthAnimals, a children's album Perspective, 1990, Dalliance. Music CD Dan Brown, 1993, DBG Records Angels & Demons, 1994, DBG Records Musica Animalia, 2003, a children's CD comprising 15 tracks songs portraying animals in poem & song Novels Digital Fortress, 1998 Angels & Demons, 2000 Deception Point, 2001 The Da Vinci Code, 2003 The Lost Symbol, 2009 Films The Da Vinci Code, 2006 Angels & Demons, 2...
Book Review Q and A (re-branded as Slumdog Millionaire) Q & A is a novel written by Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat. Published in 2005, it was the author's first novel. Set in India, it tells the story of Ram Mohammad Thomas, a poor young waiter who becomes the biggest quiz-show winner in history, only to be sent to jail on accusations (but with no evidence or proof) that he cheated. It was the basis of the 2008 feature film Slumdog Millionaire. The novel was re-published under the title Slumdog Millionaire after the success of the film. The book is divided into 14 topics (included the prologue and the epilogue). Each chapter of the book focuses on questions and answers from the quiz-show, but also a story, how Ram Mohammad Thomas knew answer for all the questions he was asked for. One of the main reasons whay I started to read this book, was the success of the movie Sl...
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Answers 1. The speaker has obtained mostly cigarettes, booze, books, but also chocolates, milkshakes and even a coin collection for other members of Shawshank. 2. He won't get anyone guns and heavy drugs, because they won't help anyone kill himself or anyone else. 3. Three pieces of evidence that were used to put Andy into jail were: · two empty bottles of Narragansett Beer whit Andy's fingerprints on them · twelve cigarette ends. All of them were Kools what was Andy's brand. · Plaster cast of tyre tracks. These were exactly same as Andy's car. 4. Dishtowels are so important because killer used these as silencer, when he killed Andy's wife and her lover. 5. Sherwood Bolton was in jail from 1945 to 1953. All that time he had a pigeon in his cell. 6. Rock hound person who is interested in rocks. 7. And...
What I Was By Meg Rosoff Meg Rosoff Was born in 1956 in Boston, USA Studied at Harvard University First novel, How I Live Now (2004) Second novel, Just in Case (2006) Third novel, What I Was (2007) Main characters : 1) Hilary 16 years old boy, around whom the story goes. He had been kicked out of two boarding schools and St Oswald´s was the last thing, where he wanted to be. 2)Finn Boy with the beautyful eyes, flickering half-smile and no past. No one knows he lives alone in his hut by the sea. (Actually he is a girl) 3)Barett Hilary´s roommate 4)Gibbon Hilary´s roommate, very cruel 5)Reese Hilary´s roommate, who is as attracted to Hilary as Hilary is to Finn. Parts: St Oswald´s School A boy named Finn and their adventures Storm and truth St Oswald´s School Hilary´s third school Ordinary school days and...
Book Review Title: "Seven Brothers" Author: Aleksis Kivi Publisher: "Eesti Raamat" Year: 1983 Original: Helsinki 1926-1927 The book "Seven Brothers" was written by Aleksis kivi. It tells the story of seven brothers and their adventures. The story takes place in Finland about eighty years ago, 20th century. The characters in the book are villagers, enforcer, seven brothers and their enemies from other region. It is a novel story and I know that, there is a film based on book. The story is set in Jukola farm, there were some issues with family life and then the brothers decided to go live in forest and finally they built a big farm, which is named "Impivaara". In the first chapter the boys are very young and they messed up everything. As the story develops, brothers have grown into big mans. They are having troubles with enforcer and his oxen. But brothers settled the problem and enforce...
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, in Hampshire, the second of eight children to John Dickens. He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most memorable characters. His novels and short stories have never gone out of print Sharles visited America twice, where he gave lectures, raised support for copyright laws, and recorded many of his impressions of America. In 1835 he met and became engaged to Catherine Hogarth. In 1844 Dickens and his family toured Italy, and were much abroad, in Italy, Switzerland, and France, until 1847 He died on the 9 June 1870 after a stroke. Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialised form, a favoured way of publishing fiction at the time. Other writers of the time would complete entire novels before serial publication commenced, but Dickens o...
English Literature ,Victoria Age 1) Overview of the Victorian age · Periodization During the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) · Why is the Victorian Age compared to the Elizabethan Age? Both are associated with the reign of a very popular queen; Victorian age idealised the Elizabethan Age; many changes in different fields- economy, religion etc.; focusing more on people's attitudes, political developments etc; Victorian age was inspired by Elizabethan era; Britain became an empire · What were the most important changes in politics, religion and social life that occurred during the Victorian age? Politics: 1848 Chartist movement (voting right for the working class); women's suffrage movements; feminist outburst (wanted to have business openly; own property, voting etc.); world dominion (British empire); Economy: Industrialization; urbanization (people moved to towns no agriculture & food); laissez- faire eco...
Review of "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club is an amazing book. Initially it was published as a short story in the compilation of Pursuit of Happiness. Later on in August 1996 Palahniuk expanded it to a full length novel and the books was published by W. W. Norton & Company. The genre of the book has been stated to be satirical novel. The novel tells a story about an miserable specialist of a car company. From day to day, he traveled from city to city, inspecting car crashes and deciding whether it was the car producers fault or not. He spent all his free time in cheap motels with insomnia and on daily basis watching corps, blood and human flesh mixed with oil and scrap metal has its own effect on his mind. Since there really isn't a support group for people with similar faith, the narrator starts goin...
Character Sketch-Shug Avery The Color Purple by Alice Walker Shug Avery was a very passionate African-American blues singer, and I believe quite a lot throughout the novel. Her evolvement was interesting to observe. First impression of her wasn’t positive because she appeared rather inelegant and also quite selfish. In essence, she seemed to be unlikable as well as superficial. Shug (originally Lilly) didn’t really embrace herself and adopted a nickname – “Shug”. However she developed a sexual relationship with Celie and with that broke the boundaries of traditional gender roles. She was outspoken, exteremely honest and not easy to affect. All her three children were born out of wedlock. She is a good example of sexuality and gender not being as univocal and simplistic topics as they may seem since she was a bisexual (sexual relationship with Celie). Throughout the novel Celie’s mother was comp...
I love english 5 Revision Unit 11 1) Vocabulary 1. Who is the patron saint of Scotland? 2. A clan is a large group of related familys. 3. The Scots are proud of their national costume. 4. There are heather moors, moutains and lochs in Scotland. 5. Do you belive that there is a monster in Loch Ness? 6. We saw many sheeps on the hillside. 7. An indrustial centre. 2) Make sentences 1. LAKE / POND long/big/sweet/deep/high A lake is deeper than a pond. 2. MOUNTAIN/HILL A mountain is higher than a hill. 3. SCOTLAND/WALES Scotland is bigger than Wales. 4. NOVEL/SHORT STORY A novel is longer than a short story 3) Reported speech Said to -› told ,,I,, -› II II -› had+ III 4) Reading
White Fang is the title of a novel by American author Jack London. The novel was first serialized in The Outing Magazine in May to October 1906. It is the story of a wild wolfdog's journey toward becoming civilized in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century. White Fang is a companion novel to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which cares a kidnapped civilized dog turning into a wild animal.Much of the novel is written from the view-point of animals, subject to London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans. White Fang explore the violent world of wild animals and the equally violent world of supposedly-civilized humans. The book also explores complex themes including morality and redemption.White Fang has been adapted for the screen numerous times, including a live-action Disney film in 1991 which starred Ethan Hawke. ...
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He is born on 19. June 1947. He is the only son of Anis Ahmed Rushdie and Negin Bhatt, a teacher. Rushdie was born in Bombay, India, into a Muslim family of Kashmiri descent.[10][11][12] He was educated at Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, Rugby School, and King's College, University of Cambridge, where he studied history. Rushdie's first career was as a copywriter, working for the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather. It was while he was at Ogilvy that he wrote Midnight's Children, before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, Grimus, a part-science fiction tale, was generally ignored by the public and literary critics. His next novel, Midnight's Children, catapulted him to literary notability. It is regarded by many as one of the great books of the last 100 years. This work won the 1981 Booker Prize and, in 1993 and 2008, was awarded the Best of the Boo...
Dracula Bram Stoker An Irish novellist Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror novel ‘’Dracula’’ was first published in 1897. The story is about vampire that tries to find new blood for himself and the hunt for him. Also you can find a little romance in the book. It takes place in Transylvania, Romania and in England. The novel is written in diary-form and several characters are telling their story by keeping a journal. Entries are written in six months by four persons. In the novel there are nine main characters: Jonathan Harker, whose writings are seen first; Count Dracula, of whom all the story is about, but he does not keep a diary; Wilhelmina ‘’Mina’’ Harker, early Murray, wife of Jonathan Harker; Lucy Westerna, a friend of Wilhelmina; Arthur Holmwood, Lucy’s fiancee, who also doesn’t write; John Seward, a doctor; Abraham Van Helsing, a ...
SINU KOOLI NIMI SINU NIMI BOOK REPORT FORM "Life, The Universe and Everything" KOHT, AASTAARV Page 1 Contents · About the author .................................................................................................................... 3 · Plot ................................................................................................................................... ........ 4 · Characters ......................................................................................................................... ...... 5 · Theme/setting.................................................................................................
,,Da Vinci kood" Dan Brown Sisukokkuvõte Sisu tänapäevane osa hõlmab 24 tunni jooksul toimuvaid sündmusi, peamiselt Pariisis, Londonis ja Sotimaal. Harvardi Ülikooli professor Robert Langdon ja Sophie Neveu (koodide salasõnumite analüüsile spetsialiseerunud detektiiv) aitavad lahendada Jacques Saunière'i, Pariisi Louvre'i muuseumi kuraatori kummalise mõrva saladust. Nad avastavad, et Saunière mõrvati, sest ta oli Siioni prioraadi suurmeister. Siioni prioraat on väidetavalt salaühing, mis asutati varjamaks "tõde", et Jeesus abiellus Maarja Magdaleenaga, valmistades teda ette juhtima kirikut peale oma surma. Selle salateadmise kohaselt oli Maarja Magdaleena Jeesuse ristilöömise ajal temast rase ja Prantsusmaal on tänaseni säilinud nende järeltulijatest alguse saanud kuninglik suguvõsa. Reaalse karika või peekri asemel oli "Püha Graal" Maarja Magdaleena ise "an...
Referaat: Agatha Christie raamatu kohta ''the mysterious affair at styles'' CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION................................................... 3 2. AGATHA CHRISTIE............................................. 4 3. PICTURES.............................................................. 5 4. PLOT....................................................................... 6 5. PLOT....................................................................... 7 6. CHARACTERS...................................................... 8 7. SETTING................................................................ 9 8. LANGUAGE AND STYLE................................... 9 9. WHOM DO I RECCOMEND THIS NOVEL........ 9 10. SUMMARY........................................................... 10 11. SOURCES.............................................................. 11 INTRO...
Eric Van Lustbader · Born 1946 Greenwich Village, New York City, United States · Graduate of New York's Stuyvesant High School and Columbia College, with a degree in Sociology · His novels have been translated into over twenty languages · He and his wife, the author Victoria Lustbader, live in New York City and Long Island. Notable works · The New Jason Bourne Novels (2004 present) · The Ninja - (1980) · The Testament (2006) · Last Snow (2010) · The Ring of Five Dragons (2001) Genres · Thriller · Fantasy · Action The Bourne Deception (2009) · The seventh novel in the Jason Bourne series created by Robert Ludlum (Lustbader's 4th). · It is a spy, thriller novel. · Multiple settings (USA, Iraq, Egypt). · Protagonist: Jason Bourne, antagonist: Arkadin · "Like everyone I've seen the Bourne trilogy that have been made into movies. As such, I missed a few of the books in the series. That said, I enjoyed th...
Themes, Motifs, and Symbols Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Grim Reality of War - As the title of the novel makes clear, A Farewell to Arms concerns itself primarily with war, namely the process by which Frederic Henry removes himself from it and leaves it behind. The few characters in the novel who actually support the effort--Ettore Moretti and Gino--come across as a dull braggart and a naïve youth, respectively. The majority of the characters remain ambivalent about the war, resentful of the terrible destruction it causes, doubtful of the glory it supposedly brings. The novel offers masterful descriptions of the conflict's senseless brutality and violent chaos: the scene of the Italian army's retreat remains one of the most profound evocations of war in American literature. As the neat columns of men begin to crumble, so too do the soldiers' nerves, minds, and cap...
Book report The book I read is called "Life At The Top" written by John Braine. It is a continuation to a novel "Room At The Top". It is all set 20th century, England. The main characters are Joe Lampton, an ambitious man of humble origins, his gorgeous upper-class wife Susan, two children Harry and Barbara. Barbara is Joe´s dearest treasure. Harry is a lot like Joe he wants to please everybody and he wants so be his own master, too. There are also Mr.Brown who is Susan´s father, her wife Margaret Brown, Susan´s cousins Mark and Sybil, a number of businesspartners , Joe´s secretary Hilda and two lovely ladies Norah Hauxley and Jean. Joe has an executive job in his father-in-law firm and everything what should satisfy his needs. Yet, Joe is still a dissatisfied man. At first he has an affair with an actress Jean, then he makes an eye to Norah, who doesn't seem to be interested in at the ...
Book review Title: ,,Vanamees ja meri" Author: Ernest Hemingway Publisher: ,,Eesti raamat" Year: 1985 Original: ,,The old man and the sea" Charles Scribner's Sons New York (1952) First printing: 1952 The book ,, The old man and the sea", is written by Ernest Hemingway. It tells the story of an old man called Santiago who lives in a small house near the ocean. The story takes place in the sea, about 50 years ago.The characters in the book are: a little boy, old man Santiago and a big fish. It is an short novel. There are film based on this book. The story is set on a big ocean. On the first pages, old man comes from fishing. Then he starts eating dinner with a boy. As the story develops, the man goes again to the sea to get fish. Then a big fish swallows the beat. The fish is so big that starts to pull the boat. The plot of the story is quite drab, but interesting too. The book contains lots...
„The Host“ The book was written by Stephenie Meyer. The book is about Earth, in a post apocalyptic time, being invaded by a parasitic alien race, known as "Souls", and follows one Soul's predicament when the consciousness of her human host refuses to co-operate with the takeover of her body. It describes what happens when Earth has been overrun by an alien species called Souls, which invade human bodies and erase personalities. There are one film based on the book. The main characters are Wanderer or 'Wanda' for a nickname, Melanie Stryder, Ian O'Shea, Jared Howe, Jamie Stryder, Uncle Jeb, The Seeker, Kyle O'Shea and Doc. In the first chapter Wanda goes in Melanie’s body and are described what she feels and thinks. In the beginning Wanda doesn’t listen Melanie and tries to ignore her. And Melanie really hated Wanda for "stealing" her body and ruining her life. But as the story develops, Melani...
Jaan Kross 8.c Biography He was born in Tallinn (19.02 1920 27.12 2007). 1928 1938 he studied at Jakob Westholm Grammar School. 1938 1944 he attended the University of Tartu. 1944 1946 professor in the Univerity of Tartu 1946 1954 spent in prison Career Jaan Kross was an Estonian writer. Wrote mostly novels and short stories ,,The Czar's Madman" has been considered Kross' best novel; it is also the most translated one. Was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature during the early 1990s Was named a People's Writer of the Estonian SSR (1985) Received the State Prize of the Estonian SSR (1977) In 1990 Kross won the Amnesty International Golden Flame Prize Family 1940 1949 he married Helga Pedusaar. 1954 1958 he married Helga Roos. They had a daughter Kristiina Kross (born in 1955). Jaan Kross married Ellen Niit in 1958. They had 3 children Maarja Undusk, EerikNiiles Kross and Märte...
The Review The twilight saga:Eclipse First of all I have to say that in order to understand this book you need to read the first two books also or at least watch the movies. The novel is set in a small Washington city called Forks. Since Eclipse is the third novel in Stephen Meyer's twilight series it carries on not long after the second book New Moon was left off. The love of Bella's life-Edward has left her and she is devastated .She finds comfort in Jacobs friendship ,what in time will become more affectionate .But it all ends when Edward comes back and they decide to be together again. Bella's high school graduation is approaching and she will soon be leaving Forks forever, to go to college - but in reality she is planning to become an vampire and will therefore be unable to return home, because of a terrible blood lust that will possess her in the first few years. There are quite many storylines .Besides the graduation and Bella...
Movie was well done. None too big cuts. All good quotations were present but it felt to me that in some places they were a bit too forced (crammed together). Alltogether I liked the movie and it gave away the meaning of the book pretty well. The storyteller explaines in the beginning that Harry likes to play with people. Not good. The novel has no reference to Dorian being painted with an Egyptian goddess shaped like a cat who could grant his wish, as the film has. Appears throughout the whole movie. Girls signs the painting- Glaidis, Basils niece. Dorian stole her heart. Also important in later recognising the corpse. In Wilde's original, Sybil Vane is a Shakespearean actress whom Dorian observes playing Juliet, rather than the gifted dance-hall singer seen in this film. This necessitates altering Dorian's motive for breaking up with her. In the novel, her acting has become shallow as a result of really falling in love with Dorian,...
Wa l t e r Scott Walter Scott Scottish novelist and poet One of the greatest historical 1771-1832 novelists. Scott wrote twenty-seven historical novels. Early Life o Was born August 15 1771 o Caught polio and survived. o Sent to Sandyknowe , his grandparents farm. o Taught to read and influenced by his aunt Jenny. o Given private tutoring by James Mitchell. o attended grammar school and met James Ballantyne. o At age 12, started studying at the University of Edinburgh. o Began an apprenticeship with his fathers office. o Later became a lawyer in Edinburgh. Literary Career launched Began to write at 25 by translating works from German. Became an ardent volunteer in yeomanry where he met Margaret Charlotte Charpentier in 1791 Had five children together Invested in money over time through various jobs and events. Fo...
Sin City (2005) Sin city is based on the graphic novel series of the same name. It was directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriquez and Quentin Tarantino. Film is based on four Sin City stories: "The Customer is Always Right", "The Hard Goodbye", "The Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard". Sin City had a very good actors like Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Jamie King, Brittany Murphy, Benicio Del Toro, Nick Stahl, Elijah Wood, Michael Clarke Duncan. All the film is in black and white with a few colored details. It makes perfect environment and makes you feel like in a comic books. Sin City is shared into four parts and all those parts are wrapped together like one masterpiece. All the film is about are corruption and different characters who manage themselves through the grimy and violent city. Frank Miller had bring some remarkable characters into his comic ...
Joanne Kathleen Rowling Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in July 1965 at Ingland. Joanne left Chepstow for Exeter University, where she earned a French and Classics degree, her course including one year in Paris. As a postgraduate she moved to London and worked as a researcher at Amnesty International among other jobs. She started writing the Harry Potter series during a delayed Manchester to London King's Cross train journey, and during the next five years, outlined the plots for each book and began writing the first novel. Jo then moved to northern Portugal, where she taught English as a foreign language. She married in October 1992 and gave birth to a daughter Jessica in 1993. When the marriage ended, she and Jessica returned to the UK to live in Edinburgh. Her books She got a idea to write about it is in King Cross train station. Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British autho...
Kaudkõne inglise keeles Aegade nihe 1.tuleb teha aegade nihe olevikust lihtminevikku ja muuta asesõnad. Asesõna muutumine Saatesõna Otsekõne: Colin said, ,,I like Scotland very much. Kaudkõne küsimus Kaudkõne: Colin said that she liked Scotland very much. (Kui lause on juba minevikus tuleb see panna perfekti minevikku. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote plays. Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945) has written many books about teenage girls.) 2.Kui otsekõne saatelause on minevikus (said), siis nihkuvad kaudkõnes kõik ajavormid mineviku suunas. Minevikus: Mary said, ,,I am reading a fantasy novel by C.S.Lewis. Perfekti minevikus: Mary said (that) she was reading a fantasy novel by C.S.Lewis. She said, ,,I have ...
Kristel Sepp TIK IB 09.10.09 "You can never go home again" "Lord of the flies" The quote "You can never go home again" is related to "Lord of the flies" in both literal and metaphorical sense. Luckily most of the boys could go home in a literal sense but unfortunately some of them were dead by the time rescuers came to save them. When boys were left on the island alone the savages inside them started to appear and there were few quite good reasons for that. The experience on the island changed all of them and when they were finally rescued everyone went home as sort of different persons. In the beginning when boys had just discovered that they are alone in this paradise island they were all innocent and longed for rescue but towards the end they gradually turned into savages who painted their faces, hunted and were willing to kill each other. For example in the t...
Summary: While watching her grandmother go to the gallows to hang for witchcraft in 1659 England, Mary Newbery is abducted by a wealthy woman before the suspicious mob turns their lynching attentions to her. The book is written as a series of diary entries that chronicle her many adventures as a 17th century orphan with genuine knowledge of witchcraft. Mary is packed off to join Puritans headed to the New World. While they search for religious freedom, Mary searches for a fresh start and a chance to live a life untainted by the suspicion of witchcraft. She is informally adopted by good friends who accept her strong-willed nature and and knowledge of herbs, medicines, and midwifery. To escape the oppressive atmosphere of the village and the stringent Puritan expectations, Mary retreats to the woods where she befriends a local Native American boy. Despite dire warnings from all who care about her, Mary persists in keeping her journal, gal...
Book review The Zahir Paulo Coelho 2005 331 pages Novel The novel is set in Paris and Kazakhstan. A renowed author discovers that his wife, Esther, has suddenly dissapeared leaving no trace. He gets obsessed of meeting his wife again. During the search of his wife, he meets Mikhail. The author learns the meaning of love, the power of destiny and what it means to follow your heart. During his journey, he is a completely different man. Finally he meets his wife, but everything has changed. I really enjoyed reading this book, because it was really instructive. The story was full of lessons and ethical matters to use in life. I am completely in love with the author, because he doesn't just tell the story, but keeps you thinking about it, and speaks with the readers through the words. I usually enjoy more books with action, but this book is one of the best novels I've read. My favourite quote from the book: "All you have to do is to pay ...
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Class and social status in Pride and Prejudice Mankind has been acknowledging one another's superiority since the dawn of time. In the novel under the discussion, social status has a great importance in the turn of events. Everyone in the novel is somehow influenced by the topic of fortune or social class. To start with, even though "Pride and Prejudice" touches on many different subjects and characters, its main events are related to or caused by the dogmas of class distinctions. The main characters are influenced by that on numerous occasions. Mr. Darcy, of noble descent, finds it hard at first to cope with the relatives and social status of the woman he falls in love with, Elizabeth. He goes as far as mentioning his superiority to her in his first marriage proposal, as was described ...
Power Destroys Ideals Throughout the centuries people have fought for power. Leadership has been a reason for many wars and fights. For some people one of the most important things in life is to have power over everybody else. Very often those who become leaders destroy or forget about the ideals they had before and about the promises they made. G. Orwell's book "Animal Farm" is an excellent example of how easy it is to forget about the ideals. In his novel George Orwell pictures a human society through the animal farm. He uses exagerations which help to feel the atmosphere of spoiled society. Society ruined by dictators, false ideas and corruption. In the novel the animals are shown as the exagerated copies of human beings with all their characters, habits and feelings. The story took place on the farm where the animals led a rebellion against the human beings. The revolution was started by the pigs wh...
14KS1 Maarja Tobreluts Jane Eyre Analysis of book and movie “Jane Eyre'' Juhendaja: Kai Hermann Vana-Vigala 2014 Overview ''Jane Eyre'' was published in 1847 and brought fame to its author, Charlotte Bronte. The book incorporates many themes: the relations between men and women, gender equality, the treatment of children and of women, religious faith and religious life and the notion of true love. The 2011 movie is a faithful and intelligent adaptation of the classic novel. The film follows the basic storyline closely although the approach to the story and the way certain characters are portrayed differs from the novel. Analysis The book describes her as being unremarkable in the way she looks. The film preserves this premise and therefore maintains the importance placed on her character. The film's interpretation of the harsh manner ...
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