What does the average reader from the twentieth century want to see from a novel? The average American nowadays has very different standards and expectations when they read a novel. One character from a modern novel may not be very compelling to someone from one hundred years ago, but Jurgis, the main character of The Jungle, has characteristics that appeal to such a reader. His virtues and beliefs are examples of what Americans back then admired, and those admirable and relatable qualities help
Words: 653 - Pages: 3
I am submitting my third quarter book report for “Read and Comprehend a Literary or Non-fiction Text”. I read Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson. The report includes the title, author, a short summary of the book, and three questions I would ask the author of the book. I wanted to know if Kate Larson ever met Rosemary. Furthermore, wanted to know if she believed that Jack’s presidency affected Rosemary, and what exactly Rosemary’s disability was. If the author had
Words: 379 - Pages: 2
I will be comparing and contrasting the poems “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “If” by Rudyard Kipling and I will be arguing that the poems are different mostly and only a little bit similar to each other. We will compare and contrast the parents in both of these poems because they are the main people in both of these poems who teach their kids what they want them to be, Their personalities in the poem, and then predicting what will happen to their kids if they follow how they want them to be. In
Words: 499 - Pages: 2
Duncan Tonatiuh is a Mexican-American author, who has written many children books such as Dear Primo, Separate Is Never Equal, Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote and Diego Rivera. His work is mostly influenced by Pre-Columbian art, specifically that of Mixtec codex. He is inspired by the culture and artwork of Mixtec and other Mexican cultures. In his work, he talks about complex topics such as social justice, history of Latinos and Americans, art and immigration. He was born in Mexico and was raised in
Words: 330 - Pages: 2
In the book “The Body In The Woods,” the setting took place in Portland, Oregon. Most of the characters time are located in Forest Park. This is because they work with a search and rescue crew, and plenty of people get lost out in the woods. The book did not state when this occurred because it was fiction, but from textual evidence the author is trying to based it off of the time era we are currently living in. One of the evidence is that they have cell phones in the book, and we can assume that
Words: 1419 - Pages: 6
Paragraph 1: His background. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in September of 1878. He died in November of 1968 at the age of 90 in New Jersey. He was married three different times over his long life. According to his Wikipedia page his family did not have much money however his grandparents was quite wealthy, this gave him the advantage of seeing how wealthy and poor people lived. Seeing the 19th century from that point of view definitely had an impact on his writings. He loved reading
Words: 365 - Pages: 2
This book is appropriate to the time period because in the book it's 1793, That's how they got the name Fever 1793. During the book people got yellow fever because you know one person gets it then the rest gets it because they don't have the right medicine or vaccine for them, What do you expect it's in 1793. They also walked everywhere when like Mattie and her grandfather was finding out about the yellow fever, So they walked around outside to find out about the fever and they found out that it
Words: 412 - Pages: 2
In the graphic novel Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, there is a panel in which a storm has struck the family home (179). The surprising thing about this storm was that it moved in a weird path around the home. Rather than running directly into the house it has curved and destroyed everything in its path around the house falling just short of making a complete circle. This notion of destruction and the house still standing is very allegorical because it represents the Bechdel’s family life. The structure
Words: 440 - Pages: 2
The name of the book which I have selected for this book report is Martin Van Buren. The author of this book was Ted Widmer. Ted Widmer, or Edward L. Widmer, was born in 1963 and he was a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton who was the President of the United States from 1993-2001. Also, he wrote this book about this man, Martin Van buren, who was the first President born after the signing of the Declaration of Independence Also, Van Buren was the first president who was born without trace of Anglo-Saxon
Words: 2051 - Pages: 9
Thomas Foster explains in his novel, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, that symbolism is used by authors to convey multiple messages. One symbol will not be demoted to just one meaning. This is because as authors, they must take into account that they have a wide variety of readers, so they need something that can involve everyone. Take for example, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In this novel, one of her themes is light. As such a vague topic, it can be interpreted many different ways. Light
Words: 260 - Pages: 2
