Characters who in falling from a great height allow Adichie and Achebe to construct texts that are essentially tragic how could this apply to the characters of Okonkwo and Odenigbo Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are two African authors whos books are hugely popular Achebes novel Things Fall Apart is one of the most popular African novels The newer novel Adichies Half of a Yellow Sun has won wide acclaim and won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007 Achebe himself is a fan of H
Compare the tension between the novel Farthing House by Susan Hill and the novel The Red Room by H G Wells Gothic writing is a style of writing which was extremely popular in the nineteenth century It is a story set with the theme of horror in a supernatural way All gothic writers followed the same concept when writing a novel They all consisted of a large dark abandoned place for example a castle or mansion where a man of the modern age would encounter many supernatural obstacles The character
The Things They Carried is an ambitious collection of short stories about the Vietnam War But that description while wholly accurate is completely inadequate The stories penetrate deeply into the complexities of the phenomena of war to an extent that may be unparalleled so affixing it with the label Vietnam War stories potentially obscures the many themes that are woven into the text What makes Tim OBriens book particularly powerful is the way he uses the prism of war to illuminate larger truth