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overt and implicit racism which is the main topic of the book. Grant often criticizes his society. He bitterly resents the racism of whites, and he cannot stand to think of Jefferson’s unjust conviction and imprisonment. The protagonist of the novel, Grant is the son of cane-cutters who labored on a Louisiana plantation. He grows up working in a menial job, but makes his escape and goes to college. He returns to his hometown a secular, educated man, distanced from his downtrodden black community

A Lesson Before Dying is a deceptively simple novel that explores numerous complex themes. Like Albert Camus’ The Stranger, which also explores a prison experience, albeit from the prisoner’s point of view, its stark simplicity and spare language belie a complex and profound book. Gaines uses harsh (or austere) language to reflect the spiritual and personal alienation of humans in the twentieth century. Through Grant Wiggins’ emotionally detached account of Jefferson’s trial at the beginning of the

hilarious novel”. It was loved by the critics and it also won the prestigious man booker prize which is British prize. It was written by Yann Martel a Canadian author, who is a globe trotter so he’s very open-minded. He wrote two other novels but they were failures. He was inspired to write this novel while he was inspired to write this novel while he was staying in India. Mr Martel used his knowledge of philosophy, zoology and religion that he gained during his studies to write an original novel. It’s

THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING A novel setting The other life of the only British territory occupied by the Germans in WWII By Linda Matchan, Globe Staff | November 8, 2009 ST. PETER PORT, Guernsey - When you put your mind to it, there are plenty of ways to use a bunker on your property. Extra storage. Wine cellars. Recording studios. These are some of the creative solutions devised by the resilient residents of Guernsey, a small, scenic island in the far reaches of the English

Court judge. Scott desperately tried to make himself know and to earn enough money to marry Zelda. He went back to his home in Minnesota to work on his novel The Romantic Egoist which was turned down two years ago. Scott revised it and made it publishable. It will finally be published the 26 march 1920 under the name of This Side of Paradise. The novel knows an huge success, and makes of his author the representative of a whole generation, which is called The Era of the Jazz. This was the start of his

important character in his novels is Sherlock Holmes, a private detective. He was born in Edinburgh in Scottland in 1859. He began by studying medecine at the university of Edinburgh.It was at this time that he started to write short stories and poetry. He was a young doctor and he didn’t have enough patients and to spend his free time he wrote stories. Until 1891 he studied ophtalmology in Austria but back to London he hadn’t any patient He created a new style of detective novel. He wrote a lot of differents

Childhood and Adolescence ENG 204 The Secret Garden Essay The Secret Garden is partly based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s experience and beliefs, particularly when she evokes the garden but also when she describes the characters. Nowadays, this novel is considered as a classic of children’s literature but it seems that actually it is more addressed to adults than to children. We can wonder how the narrator presents chracters and events and how he renders judgements on them. How does the narrator’s

language of classicism Principles and rules Honnêteté The Rise of Rationalism Jesuits and Jansenists The new science The libertins Descartes Pascal Literature Poetry Boileau La Fontaine Fiction The pastoral novel The heroic novel The roman d’analyse The roman réaliste The philosophical novel The conte de fée First-person narrators Fictitious memoirs Theatre The theatres The players The staging of plays Audiences Tragicomedy Comedy Molière Tragedy Corneille Racine The Crisis of Confidence Moral reflection

Bibliographie : • Faustine Boateng, At the Crossroads: Adolescence in the Novels of Mariama Bâ, Aminata Sow Fall, Ken Bugul and Khadi Fall, Howard University, septembre 1995 • Susan Stringer, « Cultural Conflict in the Novels of Two African Writers, Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall », A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, 1988, supplement p. 36-41 • Dorothy Davis Wills, « Economic Violence in Postcolonial Senegal: Noisy Silence in Novels by Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall », dans Violence, Silence and

- a satire > satirical - a poem > poetic - an epic > epic, epical - a stanza (= une strophe) - a line (= un vers / une ligne) - drama - the picaresque novel / the gothic novel / the historical novel / the regional novel / the novel of education or Bildungsroman - the short story - the tale - the critic (= le critique, la personne) | criticism (= la critique) | a piece of criticism (= une critique) - a critical approach - to criticize