The Importance Of Novels In Les Mis�rables

William Saroyan uses many literary devices such as symbolism and characterization throughout his short story, “Gaston”. He uses them to convey that parents have an influence on their children, who look up to them. He includes many details in each instance of the literary devices, to expand on the theme he is trying to convey.

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel that should be taken very seriously. While the novel is fiction, something very similar happened about 50 years ago. 50 years ago, Germany had a leader that was evil. When I say evil, I mean it. He was very manipulative, and killed many people because of their religion. On top of that, he burned books, so that people would follow his beliefs and not have a mind of their own. Fahrenheit 451 is similar because of the book burnings, that restricted creativity, and individuality. The theme of Fahrenheit 451 is when your creativity is restricted, it causes horror and pain.

Before the French Revolution began, people were openly expressing their dissatisfaction with French society through written means. The discontent comes from many areas, but a large focus comes from the nobility. Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism, Isabelle de Charrière, The Nobleman (1763), and Nicolas Toussaint le Moyne des Essarts, The Noailles Affair (1786), gives a clear representation of how the nobility is viewed in the second half of the eighteenth century. Writers represented most of French nobility as mainly being only concerned about their family heritage and luxurious privileges, which greatly corresponds with reality as can be seen in William Doyle’s The Oxford History of the French Revolution.

Natalie Zemon-Davis’s 1983 book The Return of Martin Guerre provided both the public and academic world with a fresh and interesting take on a classic story. Presented like a mystery thriller, Davis weaves a tale of deception based on a solid framework of cultural history. Her narrative depends on grounding the characters of Bertrande de Rols, Martin Guerre, Arnaud du Tihl, and their associates within a web of social context. Davis draws heavily on the traditional Coras narrative, but also supplements the established story with the version presented in Le Sueur, a new source she discovered. Additionally, she incorporates unusual sources dealing with broader social context and infers specifics from a general study of period interactions. It is this latter approach that historian Robert Finlay disagrees with. He claims that Davis does not appropriately rely on the source material provided by the Coras narrative and thus gives an unnecessarily dramatic version of events. The AHR forum on the subject includes both Finlay’s review and Davis’s response, providing a model of scholarly debate that extends beyond the actual content of the book in question. In addition to being a rhetorical critique, Finlay is attacking the foundational methodology of modern social history that Davis is then compelled to defend.

Literature changed drastically between the nineteenth-century and twentieth and twenty-first century. Idealistic views that British writers once held, turned into skepticism as Great Britain enter war and inequalities grew greater. The writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries wrote realistically what was happening in the world. The Moment before the Gun Went Off by Nadine Gordimer and “The Day They Burned the Books” by Jean Rhys are both stories that show the shattering of Idealism in twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

In the book, The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis, she gives an inside look on the world of peasantry life in France during the sixteenth century. One thing that really stood out to me as a reader was, how it relates so much to modern day views and how the people in the book, back in the sixteenth century, seem so much like us here in the twenty-first century. Some of the views were the same as well as the reactions to different conflicts throughout the text. Davis focuses more on the history of the people rather than hierarchies, like we have been learning about in, Teachers of the Inner Chamber by Dorothy Ko.

What are some of the reasons of why people act how they are? In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, a young teenage boy named Johnny Cade is the most loved in a gang. The psychological theory in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for Johnny is extremely dynamic and is very interesting. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs shows the basic, psychological, and self-fulfillment needs of others. Literary criticism is the art or practice of judging and commenting on the qualities and character of literary works.The conflicts in The Outsiders are the disputes between the greasers and the Socs, and the choice that Johnny made which changed this life. Johnny starts off as a quiet, shy boy but later becomes something even greater.

“The woman reached out with contempt to them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing” (37). Montag and the other firemen report to a house that is suspected of harboring books. They are correct, and they find books in the attic of the home. The books belong to an old woman whose name is unknown to the readers, and she was devastated that the firemen were destroying her home and books. Ultimately she kills herself by setting fire to herself, her home, and the books. The very property and books in question that were about to be burned by Captain Beatty. She felt that books were so important in her life that she could not go on without them. Some people would feel that things to die for, like freedom, liberty, and their family would be more important, but this woman chose her books. It seems very clear to me that Ray Bradbury seems to be telling us, the readers, that there are things in life

In Jean Froissart’s “Chronicles” we are immersed in a version of historical events in France that involve French peasants in a current revolt against the nobility and knights that control the lands. With this sample, the audience is unaware of the reasoning of why and what particularly bewildered peasants to amass thus leading to a huge scaled revolt against the higher “gentleman” class. To recap the main details of the story, the combined French peasants numbered in the thousands manage to destroy the villages of (Beavoism, Corbie, Amiens and Montididier), wherein their path included raping of woman, burning of towns, and brutally torturing captured knights, (Froissart, Chronicles.1.181). As time passes with groups of nobility able to escape their terrorized lands, the tide turns when the combined forces of the allied knights converge on the formidable force of peasants numbered in the thousands at the town of Meaux. With the expected outcome, the knights readily equipped with horses, full scale of armor, and fine weaponry defeat and drive away all opposition with no mercy. Able to demolish the conglomerate of peasants the knights and squires would burn the town of Meaux massacring all peasants left insight making sure that all Jacques would never again consider revolting against their lords and masters. In this work where even though the author may have lived during this period of such events, I believe it seems unlikely that he was either a participant or eyewitness of

When an author sits down to write a novel one of the most important questions is: "Where is the story going to take place?". This is because the land can have an effect on what happens in the story through culture, geography, or placement on the map. As stated in chapter nineteen of Thomas Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor, "The places of poems and fiction really matter. It isn't just the setting... it's a place and space and shape that bring us to ideas and psychology and history and dynamism." (Foster, 182). Placement and geography take a front seat in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury through country and city.

states that “his main interest today was to uphold the Southern Way of Life and no niggers and no Supreme Court was going to tell him or anybody else what to do … a race as hammer headed as … essential inferiority … kinky wooly heads … still in the trees … greasy smelly … marry your daughters … mongrelize the races … mongrelize …. mongrelize” (Lee ?). Jean-Louise becomes physically sickened, unable to grasp how those dearest to her could associate themselves with people who spew such filth, vulgarity, and an openly biased hatred towards others. It is unfathomable how Henry and her father, especially her father, could have adopted such views in the short while that she was away. However, as she sees how widespread these feelings are, and the countless people

It makes people think burn it; it is different burn it, but if it is fake and thinks for us keep it. These are the ideas expressed by Ray Bradbury in his novel Fahrenheit 451, where firemen burn books and tv is a person's "family." In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury suggests television can take away people's ability to think freely and express themselves. He uses symbolism, characterization, and dialogue to demonstrate people are controlled by fear and technology thinks for people. In Fahrenheit 451, fire destroys, technology thinks, and people do nothing but follow the directions.

Authors use literary as devices such irony, foreshadowing,or flashbacks to help develop the theme of a story. Novels such as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, use these literary devices to elaborate on and support one common theme. Even short stories such as “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury use literary devices to make their stories and plots more interesting and to develop their themes. Literary devices are an important part of writing and an essential part of any plot, story, or theme.

Charles Dickens writes an exemplary novel about the French Revolution, which follows the lives of those weaving into and out of it. Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities takes place in the late 1700s in France and England. The novel introduces a theme of man’s inhumanity to man, the cruel behaviors people show to each other. Throughout the book, the inhumanity of different characters towards other men slowly becomes more and more prevalent. Dickens uses the Evremonde brothers, Madame Defarge, and the Revolutionaries to show that there is no redemption for man’s inhumanity against man.

This socio-historical commentary is valid however; it disregards the fact that the novels are not accurate portrayals of society. Important facts: first the philanthropic attitude in the novels is simply not a reflection of the literal changes in society, the novels cannot be classified an expression of