about Consuelo, a Puerto Rican girl who must learn to cope with her schizophrenic sister and dysfunctional family. Consuelo leaves Puerto Rico for New York near the end of the novel to escape the negative influences of her family. Both novels are worthy of examination for their portrayal of adolescent girls’ telling struggle to define their identities among cultural and gender boundaries impose...

Most postcolonial African writers choose English as the language of their literary works for the reason of wider audience reception but come to indigenize it to decolonize the colonial tool, i.e. colonial language. The translinguistic process of relexification means subverting colonial cultural imperialism and colonial linguistic imposition through the dialogic interaction opened in the w...

Introduction Fantasy novels have existed for a long time, but came into prominence after J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series. This series introduced many concepts into fantasy and created a genre sometimes known as “high fantasy.” Many novels are written in this mold every year, and in addition, people indulge in pretending they are a part of this kind of world through such role-playing g...

existence of suffering in life is undeniable. but, why does suffering exist? what is its cause? are there any meanings for this life? is it possible to escape from suffering? dostoyevsky, who believes that suffering is an inherent element of human life, tries to represent the problem of suffering and men's reactions to it in his works. he believes that not only suffering does exist, but al...

The Western novel, practicing imperialist Africanism, has historically othered Africans as savages. Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian writer, appropriated the colonizing West’s language and narrative to present the colonial encounter from an African perspective. Interestingly enough, both African and non-African scholars believe that Achebe’s novels inadvertently reproduced the essentialism that reduce...

This paper analyzed three middle grade novels and a short story from two cultures using the journey motif as the vehicle for the analysis. The three novels are Bud Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham both by Paul Curtis   and Journey to Jo’burg by Naidoo (1986). The short story is My Two Dads by M. Lee.  The three novels and a short story were chosen because these no...

In this paper and in order to guide the synthesis of novels materials with low band gaps, Theoretical study by using DFT method on six conjugated compound containing based on thiadiazolothienopyazine is reported. Different electron side groups were introduced to investigate their effects on the electronic structure. The theoretical knowledge of the HOMO and LUMO energy levels of the components ...

In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the strategies for studying suicide and suicidal behavior book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge from the book and want to read just to get entertainment. Novels, story book, and other entertaining books become so popular ...

ghassankanfani, writer, critic freedom fighter and palestinian martyr, has written many novels regarding the realities of society (disasters caused by the palestinian adversity in 1948). ghassan presents precise and realistic descriptions of human being and existence in these novels. the novel “the survivor” is a representation of the events of palestine which could only be understood through i...