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back to the orphanage once she becomes pregnant. Nasser puts in a real appearance when a young man with one eye claims the green folder and disappears into the crowds of travellers. Tarrad reveals the story of his missing ear at the end of the novel. He belonged to a poor nomadic family and supported his family by thieving, making a good living once he teamed up with another brigand. Caught in the act by a group heading to the Hajj, both brigands are punished by being buried to shoulder level

Is the novel optimistic or pessimistic? I would say that this novel is optimistic and pessimistic. First of all, it is optimistic because we can see that everyone has a dream, like George and Lennie, they want to have their own farm and land and be independent; and so it shows that we can all wish that our dream can become true if we work hard to get it. But this book is partly pessimistic: First, the racism, John Steinbeck shows how black people were treated. No one in the

‘Harriet and David met each other at an office party neither had particularly wanted to go to’ to ‘they were made for each other’. INTRO This is the opening passage of the novel The Fifth Child, in which Lessing introduces the reader to the two main protagonists, Harriet and David. She begins at the very “beginning” of “their” story, focusing on the moment they first met and fell in love. The scene is set at an end of year office party in Sixties London. There are five main parts to this

Church puts on weekly Da Vinci Code events for soaring numbers of visitors. Even the Louvre has noticed a blip in its figures. But Edinburgh is emerging as Britain's Da Vinci Code capital. And it's all down to a little chapel on the edge of town. The novel, in case you've been in a bunker for two years, is about the search for the Grail. Harvard professor Robert Langdon and sexy French code breaker Sophie Neveu follow a trail of clues from a murdered Louvre curator, via secret religious societies, albino

“difficult-to-use platforms,” and “lack of training” (ebrary, 2008). (Source: ebrary, 2007 Global eBook Survey. Used with Permission) Anthony Burgess (1984), compiling his list of the 99 best modern novels, wrote, “BOOK can be taken as an acronym standing for Box of Organized Knowledge. The book called a novel is a box from which characters and events are waiting to emerge at the raising of the lid.” In this sense, e-books in their incunabula state have failed to get out of their box. Today, many ebooks

Book Review: Prep, by Curtis Sittenfeld Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel, Prep, is the account of Lee Fiora’s four years of high school. It is a story based on the struggles of adolescence and also refers to social class distinctions. Lee gets stronger and matures each year a little more, until she finally reaches popularity. Prep is all about the evolution of a teenager stuck in a world she knows nothing about at first. Lee Fiora is from a lower middle class family in Indiana. She attends

OF MICE AND MEN John Steinbeck Fiche de lecture Of Mice and men is a novel by John Steinbeck published in 1937. It’s a tragedy written in the third-person singular and in a past tense. The narrator is omniscient It deals with the American Dream of two friends, George and Lennie, who are migrant workers. Lennie has a mental disability and George looks after him. At the beginning of the book, it is said that they got fired of a ranch because Lennie was accused of a rape. They are walking on

Essay: « The role of Adèle Ratignolle in The Awakening » In her novel “The Awakening”, Kate Chopin has introduced the character of Adèle Ratignolle. This Creole woman appears and reappears all along the story but what is exactly the role of Adèle in the novel? There is no denying that the woman is at first Edna’s best friend. However, as Edna’s rebirth takes place, her feelings towards Adèle progressively change and one can’t help thinking at the end that the Creole woman has a weighing

thuggish older boys whom Harriet suspects are involved in various criminal acts. As the story closes, Ben has left home and Harriet imagines him in another country, "searching the faces in the crowd for another of his own kind" (133). Commentary The novel raises a host of questions about human variation and its societal treatment; the tyranny of the visual in the establishment of normalcy and social power; the constructedness of the normal and the deviant, defective, or abnormal; and the gap between

KING, KNAVE and PRINCESS King, Queen and Knave is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1928, under his pen name, Sirin, while living in Berlin. It was originally written in Russian and eventually translated the same year by the author's son. Such a title suggests either a historical novel about Middle-Ages for instance, or a fairy tale. But it is neither a story of kings and queens, nor a fairy tale. It's a fiction about real people, a married couple and their nephew, a young man, who falls