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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tallinna Rahumäe põhikool Report Michael Morpurgo Lizett Käos 8A Tallinn, 2014 Michael Morpurgo His biographical data Michael Murporgo´s full name is Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo. He was born 5 October 1943 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, he attended schools in London, Sussex and Canterbury. He went on to London University to study English and French, followed by a step into the teaching profession and a job in a primary school in Kent. It was there that he discovered what he wanted to do. Morpurgo's biological father was actor Tony Van Bridge. His mother, Kippe Cammaerts (otherwise Catherine Noel Kippe, daughter of Emile Cammaerts), who had been an actress, met (and in 1946 married) Jack Morpurgo (subsequently Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds from 1969 to 1982) while Bridge was away during World War II...
Literary career began when she was two. Mother's influence . Work was first published when she was just sixteen. Was a big baseball fan. A copywriter. Detroit Free Press First novel , The Cat Who Could Read Backwards. Left Michigan to move to North Carolina (1989). Is married to actor Earl Bettinger, has two cats. In January 2007 the twenty-ninth novel was released. Takes place in Moose County in the small town of Pickax. The story begins on Monday, November Eleventh an ends on Monday, November Twenty-fifth. Jim Qwilleran newspaperman; a prize- winning reporter with a nose for crime. Koko a Siamese cat with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery; loves, when Qwilleran reads to him. Yum Yum a lovable Siamese adored by her two male companions. Series opens in November. Jim Qwilleran. Other matters that concern Qwill. A museum in the mansion. Jim Qwilleran as a...
Potter created the characters of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, Squirrel Nutkin and others. Her first animal stories were The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901) and The Tailor of Cloucester (1902). Terry Pratchett · Terry Pratchett(1948)is an English writer. Pratchett's first novel was The Garbet people (1971).The Colour of Magic (1983) was the first novel in his series of comic fantasies about life on Discworld, a planet which travels through space on the back of four elephants. The Discworld novels have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. He has written Mort (1987) and Soul Music (1995). She has written children's books like the "Johnny Maxwell" trilogy:Only You Can Save Mankind (1992), Jonnhy and the Dead (1993), Jonnhy and the Bomb (1996) J.K Rowling · Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965) is an...
He was born to a middle-class Florentine family. At an early age he began to write poetry and became fascinated with lyrics. During his adolescence, Dante fell in love with a beautiful girl named Beatrice Portinari. He saw her only twice but she provided much inspiration for his literary masterpieces. Her death at a young age left him grief-stricken. His first book, La Vita Nuova, was written about her. Sometime before 1294, Dante married Gemma Donati. They had four children. Dante was active in the political and military life of Florence. He entered the army as a youth and held several important positions in the Florence government during the 1290's. During his life, Florence was divided politically between Guelphs and Ghibellines. The Guelphs supported the church and liked to keep thi...
Frankenstein Mary Shelley About the Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist . She was born in Somers Town, London. Mary received an excellent education, which was unusual for girls at the time. She never went to school, but she was taught to read and write by her housekeeper and her father. She was married to a romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She began writing "Frankenstein" when she was only eighteen and it had conceived from a nightmare. Mary died, aged 54, at Chester Square in London, England. She was buried in St. Peter's churchyard in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. The Book The story begins in a vessel in the North Pole where captain Robert Walton was on a voyage of discovery. Suddenly he saw a man and he was Victor Frankenstein. Victor was very ill and he started to tell Robert a...
Partners in Crime Agatha Christie About the Author Dame Agatha Christie (15 September 1890 12 January 1976) is the most widely published author of all time. In a career that spanned more than fifty years, Christie wrote eighty novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays and five nonfiction books, including her autobiography. Her most popular characters are the ingenious Belgian Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She achieved Britain's highest honor when she was made a Dame of the British Empire. The Book This book is a short-story collection about two characters who are not as popular as Poirot or Miss Marple. They are Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, a married couple. Tommy works for some kind of a agency which tells them to run a detective agency to catch a Russian spy. Tuppence was delighted because before that she was very bored and she had nothing...
Keskaja kultuuriline olustik · Pmst Lääne-Rooma riigi lagunemisest (5 saj) kuni renessansi alguseni (15. saj) · Keskaeg valmistas ette uusaegsete kultuuri ja identiteedi sündi. · Uute religioonide tormiline levik: kristlus, islam, budism. · Vanade rahvaste ulatuslik ümberpaiknemine, kokkupõrked, võitlused eluruumi tõttu. · Peamiselt germaani hõimud tungisid põhja ja idapoolsest Euroopast lõuna ja lääne poole (senistele Rooma riigi aladele) ja võtsid omaks ristiusu, mida innukalt paganate seas levitama hakkasid. · Roomast sai paavstivõimu keskus · Kultuur arenes vastavalt ühiskondlikele muutustele: 2 etappi: üleminek sugukondlikult korralt feodaalsuhetele (kuni 10 saj) ja väljakujunenud feodaalriikide ajastu. (11-13 saj) ·...
,,Jumalaema kirik Pariisis" Victor Hugo See prantsuse kirjaniku tuntud romaan räägib mitme tegelase elust 15. sajandi Pariisis. Oskuslikult on vahele põimitud peatükid, mis käsitlevad Pariisi arhitektuuri. Jutustuse peategelasteks on noor poeet Pierre Gringoire, ülemdiakon Claude Frollo, kellalööja Quasimodo ja ilus mustlasneiu Esmeralda, kes ühendab tegelased jutustuseks. Vähesel määral on mainitud kuulsaid tolle aja inimesi. Tegelased on väga erinevad: Claude Frollo on paheline isiksus. Jutustuses jääb kõlama Claude Frollo moto:" Kui ei saa mina teda, ei pea teda keegi saama." Seevastu Quasimodo, poolenisti valmis, nagu ta ise ütleb, on läbinisti hea. Olles kirikus varjul, ei ole ta näinud inimeste viha ja silmakirjalikkust. Kuigi loodus pole temaga helde olnud, suudab ta rõõmu leida sealt, kust keegi teine seda otsidagi ei oska. Quasimododoga peaaegu üh...
Analysis of Major Characters Frederic Henry - In the sections of the novel in which he describes his experience in the war, Henry portrays himself as a man of duty. He attaches to this understanding of himself no sense of honor, nor does he expect any praise for his service. Even after he has been severely wounded, he discourages Rinaldi from pursuing medals of distinction for him. Time and again, through conversations with men like the priest, Ettore Moretti, and Gino, Henry distances himself from such abstract notions as faith, honor, and patriotism. Concepts such as these mean nothing to him beside such concrete facts of war as the names of the cities in which he has fought and the numbers of decimated streets. Against this bleak backdrop, Henry's reaction to Catherine Barkley is rather astonishing. The reader understands why Henry responds to the game that Catherine proposes--why he pledges his love to a woman he barely kn...
At the beginning of the novel , the war is winding down with the onset of winter, and Henry arranges to tour Italy. The following spring, upon his return to the front, Henry meets Catherine Barkley, an English nurse's aide at the nearby British hospital and the love interest of his friend Rinaldi. Rinaldi, however, quickly fades from the picture as Catherine and Henry become involved in an elaborate game of seduction. Grieving the recent death of her fiancé, Catherine longs for love so deeply that she will settle for the illusion of it. Her passion, even though pretended, wakens a desire for emotional interaction in Henry, whom the war has left coolly detached and numb. When Henry is wounded on the battlefield, he is brought to a hospital in Milan to recover. Several doctors recommend that he stay in...