Analysis Of The Book ' The Hardy Boys '

Walter Dean Myers’ memoir Bad Boy is about how he traveled back to his past. This book that he wrote is, funny, and unforgettable. As a boy, Myers had a quick-temper, was physically strong, and was always ready for a fight. He also read voraciously, as he would check out books from the library and carry them home, hidden in brown paper bags in order to avoid other boys' teasing. He aspired to be a writer.

When Gayle Wald wrote, “Sayers’s career writing detective stories effectively ends with Gaudy Night” (108), she did not present a new argument, but continued the tradition that Gaudy Night does not center on the detective story.  Barbara Harrison even labeled Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter/Harriet Vane books, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman’s Honeymoon, as “deliriously happy-ending romances” (66).  The label stretches the definition of a romance, but Gaudy Night indeed has very little to do with crime.  Sayers encrypted the real story within her detective novel.  This story behind the story narrates love and human relationships.  In fact, the crimes in Gaudy Night only supply a convenient way for

The Breakfast Club is a movie about five students from Shermer High School who gather on a Saturday to sit through eight hours of detention. These five students; Andrew Clark, Claire Standish, John Bender, Allison Reynolds and Brian Johnson, have nothing in common. The Breakfast Club zooms in on the high school social groups and cliques that are often seen in the development of peer groups during adolescents. The peer groups that are portrayed in The Breakfast Club include, John “the criminal”, Claire “the Princess”, Allison “the Basket case”, Brian “the Brain”, and Andrew “the athlete”. The movie centers around an essay that Principle Vernon wants each student to write regarding who they think they are. In the beginning of the film, the

The Merriam Webster Dictionary describes hard-boiled as: “of, relating to, or being a detective story featuring a tough unsentimental protagonist and a matter-of-fact attitude towards violence.” While much of this holds true in many literary instances, the description of hard-boiled is more complex and the execution of this style varies from author to author. In this paper, we will take a closer look at what hard-boiled means and how three hard-boiled novels from three different authors in three different decades exhibit unique concepts while following a similar formula for the hard-boiled detective novel.

St. John argues that when individuals fear change, it creates more problems and conflicts. However, if people were to embrace change, then this would enhance the lives of all people involved.

There are several types of mystery stories, one in particular, is known as hard-boiled mysteries. This specific genera was originated in the 1940s, they were created to veer away from the typical mysteries that dominated this era. This particular mystery genera is quite different from another mystery story, especially when it comes to the characters in the story. Within the hard-boiled mystery genera, there are several different articles and stories. Some of these include, “Red Wind”, “Three Dot Po”, “Film Noir and the Hard-Boiled Detective Hero”, other articles come from “detnovel.com.” Furthermore, within these articles and stories there are several ideas and themes discussed and introduced. However, there is one idea present in all,

Readers who have never picked up on the Dashiell Hammett detective novel The Maltese Falcon 1930 or seen the classic 1941 film adaptation, which follows the novel almost verbatim, can feel a strong sense of familiarity, faced for the first time in history. In this book, Hammett invented the hard-boiled private eye genre, introducing many of the elements that readers have come to expect from detective stories: mysterious, attractive woman whose love can be a trap , search for exotic icon that people are willing to kill the detective, who plays both sides of the law, to find the truth , but it is ultimately driven by a strong moral code , and shootings and beatings enough for readers to share the feeling of danger Detective . For decades , countless writers have copied the themes and motifs Hammett may rarely come anywhere near him almost perfect blend of cynicism and excitement.

Stephen E. Ambrose’s book Band of Brothers was an historical account of the U.S Army’s 506th Regiment, Easy Company. The book focuses on Easy Company, an airborne infantry unit in the 101st Airborne Division from training camp all the way through the European Theater of WWII. The content of book was heavily based off interviews that Ambrose has conducted on each Easy Company man to ensure that the reading experience is authentic as possible and that the emotions being conveyed is hard hitting. Now moving onto the biographical portion of this paper.

The Englishman’s Boy written by Guy Vanderhaeghe is a story that is set in two different eras. One being set in the southwestern Saskatchewan in the 1800s and the other being in filmmaking Hollywood in the roaring twenties. Vanderhaeghe created such a unique novel, seeing as the story is not just one, but two. Through the character development, readers are able to visualize each individual distinct personalities. Since the book flips back and forth between each era, there are many places where this character development can take place. The setting of this novel is also significant because there is more than one setting in the story creating an interesting read. The imagery in this novel is important because

The Breakfast Club was a movie delineating the interactions of five high school students from differing backgrounds encountering the obstacle of a Saturday detention. These five students were composed of a princess, a brain, an outcast, a jock, and most pertinent to this paper, the rebel, John Bender. John Bender is depicted within this movie as a careless and hostile character with some authority issues. An impulsive and uncooperative individual, Bender, in the detention for pulling the fire alarm, serves as a sharp juxtaposition to the other characters, often challenging the others on their perspectives. This contrast could perhaps be attributed to his home life, which is different from his four detention counterparts.

High school is portrayed as one of the scariest steps that one takes after middle school. This is putting a label on the school and assuming that it is going to be the worst experience in one 's life. The Breakfast Club puts its characters into categories that set labels on people, such as popul students, the nerds, and the outcasts. This film brings out a broad understanding about how people should not form an opinion based solely on a person 's social status.

In 1911, G. K. Chesterton publishes “The Innocence of Father Brown”, a book with numerous detective stories that besides entertaining does a great job in describing the culture of England at the beginning of the 20th century. By looking into “The Hammer of God”, one of the stories, a reader also gets an insight into the life of a small English community. Mainly focusing on Wilfred Bohun, the protagonist of the story, a limited narrator gives a somewhat biased description of other characters. However, even the least important characters contribute to the realization that the English community from the early 20th century was not much different than other communities of that era. Since the quality of the community can best be evaluated from

While American and British authors developed the two distinct schools of detective fiction, known as “hard-boiled and “golden age,” simultaneously, the British works served to continue traditions established by earlier authors while American works formed their own distinct identity. Though a niche category, detective works reflect the morality and culture of the societies their authors lived in. Written in the time period after World War I, Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and “The Gutting of Couffignal”, and Raymond Chandler’s “Trouble Is My Business” adapt their detectives to a new harsh reality of urban life. In “hard-boiled” works, the detective is more realistic than the detective in “golden age” works according to the

The mystery genre is filled with classic books and authors. People like Agatha Christie, Edgar Allen Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Mystery in the 1800s and 1900s. One of these prestigious authors, Franklin W. Dixon, was known for his stories about two detective brothers, named Frank and Joe Hardy. One of his numerous stories, titled The Hardy Boys Casefiles: Thick As Thieves, is about how the two detective brothers fall into a trap that can cost them their lives. At the beginning, Frank and Joe find their old nemesis, Charity, and follow her to San Diego.

About a boy, written in 1998 by Nick Hornby explores the themes of mental health, 1990's culture and family through the friendship of two characters; Will, a thirty-six-year-old bachelor and Marcus, A 12-year-old outcast. In about a boy, the author has used a range of aesthetic devices that shape character representation. An Aesthetic device is an element that authors intentionally use to create intellectual/emotional responses in their novel. This analytical essay will explore how Nick Hornby has used irony, point of view and stream of consciousness to shape character representation.