Essay on Discuss Merle Hodge’S Crick Crack Monkey As a Novel

Mr. White is the person responsible for the unfortunate acts in “The Monkey's Paw”. Right off the bat, Mr. White insisted that he get the monkey's paw from Sergeant Morris despite Morris’ warnings. This detail confirms that if not for Mr. White the monkey’s paw never would have been in the possession of the White family in the first place. All of the events that took place after Mr. White took the monkey’s paw can be traced back to him. Additionally, Mr. White made the first wish even though he was warned many times there was a huge risk. This fact is significant because Mr. White clearly knew that there was a risk in making a wish but he chose to ignore it and hope the benefits were worth it. Sergeant Morris even said that the paw was made

The conflict of the Haisla people's spirituality and modern "white washing" of their culture has a major influence on Eden Robinson's novel Monkey Beach. The protagonist Lisa struggles to understand her spirituality and her family often dismisses any hint of spirituality. Lisa finds herself connected to nature but is does not fully understand why, leaving her to contemplate there meaning or existence by herself. Robinson’s use of allusion and imagery illuminate many key themes and implicit meanings throughout the passage.

Just reading an excerpt from “Crank” by Ellen Hopkins made me immediately want to read it, especially after finding out that the book was loosely based on her daughter’s life. The way this book was written was very effective because after seeing that it was written in a poetic free verse, I instantly knew it was going to be a very interesting read. My first thoughts on the main character was how innocent she was before she started taking drugs and how they had such a large impact on her life/personality.

The Jungle is a book that was written in 1906, in the middle of the Progressive Era. It was written by Upton Sinclair for the purpose to try to awaken the reader to the terrible living conditions of immigrants in the cities. This novel specifies in every little detail about the living conditions and the working conditions of the immigrants. In this book, Sinclair indirectly articulates what the American Dream was and what it meant for all the immigrants, with a purpose to reach people’s hearts, but instead it led them to worry about their own health.

    Rita Mae Brown's first novel, Rubyfruit Jungle made waves when it was first released in 1973. Its influence has not gone away over the years and is in its seventh printing. While mainstream critics failed to acknowledge Rubyfruit Jungle in their papers, magazines and discussions on contemporary literature, there are plenty of non-mainstream voices to fill the void. While these lesser-known sources are not always credible, and certainly not always accurate they have created a word-of-mouth reputation of the novel and have facilitated its continuous success.

However, the author raises the awareness of the contemporary issues and challenges of the black community, through the choice of narrative and key concepts that are essential for the genre. The novel explores many critical themes concerning the African-American

Racism is a terrible thing and in this book it shows how it can affect someone's life and even thoughts. For example Tom Robinson is accused for beating and raping a young white women named Mayella Ewell.

The book “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” is about a thirteen year old girl named Charlotte Doyle who is going back to her home in Rhode Island from England where she has finished her education. The two other families she was supposed to travel with do not show up, so she is the only passenger aboard. The new boat surrounding is scary, and the girl is frightened. She gradually becomes fond of an elderly black man by the name of Zachariah.

When the Layens arrived in America, the narrator’s great-grandfather jumped off the boat and screamed, “You ain’t takin’ us back now” (76). Similarly, the narrator understands that to survive against oppression, she must support the sanctity of the ‘black island’ with a spirit as strong as her great-grandfather’s leap. Ultimately, the ending of “The New Mirror” suggests the narrator’s racial awakenings will help her progress and grow, undeterred by any forces trying to hold her

The book is written in a very distinctive manner (Collins 36). The use of language is most significant. Actually, the author uses African American ascent of English. Perhaps this is to exemplify the setting of his plot. Basically, the book has been criticized for employing African American English in language. Subsequently, the book has been written in a reflective manner. In fact the experiences of Janie fully epitomize the personal experiences of the author. The protagonist is a refection of the author. The book has also been written in a flashback method through Janie’s close friend. This is also an attribute that is worth to note (Minds 76). Fundamentally, the book has a unique style of presentation. And the

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair‬ was written in the 1900s during the Progressive reform. It is a very interesting book that describes a freshly immigrated family and their struggles in Packingtown, Chicago. This novel is a fiction that had actually taken place in the real life. The author successfully creates the compelling and brilliant characters on the immigrants’ suffering. Sinclair sketches a detail, realistic and straightforward picture of a daily activity of immigrant family. This story is a wasteland of abject misery and horror that takes turn for the depressing; beginning as a strong family and slowly degenerates into an unrecognizable group. In addition, the book defines the horrible conditions for the working class by describing an unveil truth on the meat

The monkeys of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book are a very unique group of characters. They are viewed by the other animals of the jungle, or the Jungle People as they call themselves, as outcasts and outlaws. The most prominent chapter they occur in, “Kaa’s Hunting”, shows their lawless, shiftless, and uncivilized way of life. This image in itself does not give off any racist undertone. However, Disney’s adaption of The Jungle Book carries this view of the monkeys, while also giving them strong attributes that are commonly associated with African-Americans.

Chimamanda Adichie’s collection of short stories The Thing Around Your Neck deviates from what many individuals in the West may consider to be the traditional view of Africa. In her 2012 TED Talk, The Danger of a Single Story, Adichie states that the “telling of African stories in the West” is a “tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives, of difference, of darkness…”. In this same TED Talk, Adichie also speaks about how at one point a professor told her that the novel was not “authentically African”. These ideas that are common in the West confine the African continent and the people who live on it to stereotypes. Through the short stories, “A Private Experience” and “Jumping Monkey Hill”, Adichie steers away from what the West may consider to be “authentically African” as well as what other Africans may consider to be “authentically African” avoiding the single story that has grown common. In The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Adichie complicated “the single story” of Africa being a backwards place through the use of dynamic characters in order to display the complexities of the lives of Africans.

twentieth century Caribbean woman writers, are as complicated as they are vast. These authors show

Many Caribbean writers have addressed the issue of creolisation and the creation of a unique Caribbean identity in their works. Many of them wrote in an attempt to capture the very meaning and significance of a West Indian world, using novels of childhood as their medium.Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin, Michael Anthony’s The Year in San Fernando, McDonald’s The Humming Bird Tree, Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack Monkey and Jean Rhy’s Wide Sargasso Sea were all in part attempts at capturing and savouring something of the essence of Caribbean life through the developing consciousness of the child. Somehow the discovery and identification with this world seemed better and more accurately revealed through the impressions of the growing child.