Lucy is a novel about a young woman, Lucy, who leaves her home in the West Indies for America. Although she felt little nostalgia for her homeland, Lucy becomes disillusioned with America as she struggles with her mother and her boss Mariah's attempts to control her. In her quest for independence, Lucy abandons the values of commitment like her mother had for her adulterer father and engages in numerous loveless relationships. In the end she cuts off communication with her mother after her father dies and is alone and unfulfilled.
Anne of Green Gables is a classic turn-of-the-century children's novel that follows the story of Anne Shirley, a spirited orphan taken in by the Cuthbert siblings in the town of Avonlea, Canada. Though she gets off to a rocky start, lacking education and manners, Anne proves to be an intelligent and cheerful girl who succeeds in school. As she grows up, making close friends like Diane and Gilbert along the way, Anne finds that Avonlea is her true home.
Displays of Affection in Anne of Green Gables Love and expression of love is a central theme in L M Montgomerys novel Anne of Green Gables Anne Shirley is introduced as an emotionally damaged sensitive girl who is desperate for love of any sort When the Cuthberts actually decide to keep Anne despite her not being a boy she is elated Anne Shirley is wanted and accepted for who she is at last However throughout the novel readers note that Marilla Cuthbert treats Anne quite differently than her br
A study in Scarlet is a well known novel written in 1887 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes is a gifted man who solves mysteries in a way that no one else could By using his skills along with evidence and his new companion Dr Watson Holmes uncovers a mystery of revenge murder and love The answers to the enduring questions found in this story from the book club are answered rather strangely but very interestingly The book is split into two parts Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of J
In Never Let Me Go a fictional story focusing on three classmates from a unique boarding school author Kazuo Ishiguro deals with questions of loss and mortality that each of must eventually confront As we get older as we lose our friends and family as the environment around us changes and things once familiar to us disappear or become unfamiliar as we cling to our memories of how things used to be how do we come to accept the fact that our lives are finite and attach some meaning to our limited
Cold Mountain People usually begin a journey to achieve a goal or arrive a destination but more importantly through the journey they can find a self they have never noticed before or create a new self who adapts to the current environment In Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain the Cold Mountain is the destination the Inman wants to arrive at Although not physically starting a journey Ada goes through a mental journey which causes physical and spiritual changes in her Metaphorically she reaches Cold
What values and attitudes are explored within Stokers Dracula How might context have influenced Stokers vision Bram Stokers Dracula is if nothing else an extraordinary exploration of the values and attitudes at turn of the 20th Century London Stoker portrays the collision of two disparate worlds the Counts ancient Transylvania and the protagonists rapidly modernising London along with a variety of other symbols in order to highlight the primary anxieties that characterised his age the dangers o
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings Julius Caesar I ii 134 135 Published in 1896 Dracula is an immensely popular novel which has never been out of print has been translated into at least a dozen languages and has been the subject of more films than any other novel Only recently however have students of literature begun to take it seriously partially because of the burgeoning interest in popular culture and partially because Dracula is a work which r