When Everything Feels Like The Movies By Raziel Reid

The tone is set quickly and effectively. With the book and the movie you “are not being invited into fictional believe and deaths, into the imagination, but into the absorbing reality of flesh and blood”. (McCabe 561).

Books can be compelling to society, due to the powerful messages they show and their relevance towards real life. Many fiction authors have the ability to produce well-written books that are enduring and purposeful regardless of when they are written. The Outsiders novel is still relevant 50 years on. S.E. Hinton created a novel that would be relevant and meaningful for the present and future generations. The Outsiders is still relevant because it celebrates uniqueness, teaches society about social classes, and high schoolers can relate to the critical issues in the book that are apart of adolescence and maturation. S.E. Hinton’s ‘The Outsiders’ is relevant Fifty years on because it compels its readers to understand the human condition.

When comparing two classic pieces of literature like The Scarlet Letter and A Lesson Before Dying readers should not just take each book at face value and analyze plots and characters, but rather give a more in depth look into what the author writes between the lines. In both of these selected novels parallels can be seen during a cross-text analysis. Example will include, the role of woman, the influence and expectation of the community, and the intention and perceived ‘success’ of the penal system. These topics force the reader to dig deeper into each text and get that better understanding of what the author is trying to portray in “between the lines” so to speak.

“You read the same books over and over. Sometimes they were good books, but sometimes they weren’t,” my mother tells me later. It’s not like her to make such unequivocal value judgments. I was reading some dreck. Now we both agree I was figuring out their mechanisms. Like a science-minded kid dissecting a clock, but with fewer cogs and springs left on the floor, waiting to embed themselves in an unsuspecting foot. “Still,” she says, shaking her head, “a novelization of Clueless?” I’ve told her and told her: Cher Negotiates New York was a novelized sequel.

Literature is susceptible to misconception. At times, the presentation of content, enticing details, and storyline take away from the morals and ideas being presented in a piece of text. Most times, as a result of focusing on the distracting elements of a novel, audiences fail to recognize the deeper meaning or purpose of why the author choses to include certain sections of a novel. A book’s intention is to accurately express an author’s thoughts, but, many times, the delivery of unfamiliar content results in fear and a lack of understanding from the reader.

This paper will cover this topic by using the main aspects of Reader-Oriented Criticism, so it will also evaluate a few essays, reviews, or analyses on the book. Considering that there are two possible angles to interpret the book (idealistic or cynical), it is ultimately the readers who decide how they find its meaning, and their past experiences can influence that decision. In fact, these past experiences can also affect their character as a whole, possibly determining their attitudes towards life or the world. When analyzing the sources, this paper will focus on the parts of the book that people tend to reference most often when explaining their interpretations. It’s essentially important to see whether the readers from both sides are referencing the same scenes or different ones. If both “idealistic readers” and “cynical readers” are viewing the same moments from different perspectives, then that suggests their thoughts are essential to forming their interpretations, which supports the ideas of Subjective

Great novels are those that, despite their length, offer a multitude of ways in which readers can understand, interpret and emote with them. “ A woman alone with her soul,” can be interpret as having a deeper psychological meaning, but one can also accept the credibility of the literal surface meaning of the words. These three sentences are filled with more questions than they are answers. Thomas Bailey is known to surprise readers as he generates suspense and mystery when he composes the novels. Thus, leaving the reader with questions that cannot be answered just visualized. An analysis of Thomas Aldrich Bailey short story reveals three major parts: the setting, the character and the plot.

Students, or any teenager in general can understand the background of this novel by being able to connect the theme or themes to themselves. They can also examine the authors word choice to help establish the setting of the novel and the development of the characters throughout their journeys. This book shows many

(Mizener 77). For a very uneven and poorly structured novel, it had a feeling of vitality and freshness that encaptured many young readers of the 20s and beyond (Mizener

In this course, students will read accomplished authors in the genres of poetry, flash-fiction, short fiction, non-fiction, memoir and the novel. Students will pay particular attention to the tone and voice of each author he or she is introduced to. Each week we will study one author who is writing in the genre of flash fiction, short story, the novel, non-fiction, memoir, poetry or the comic, with the goal of deconstructing the elements of writing that lend to the author’s unique voice. After coming to a collective understanding of how each author is accomplishing his or her work, students will be challenged to write their own original piece that mirrors the writing style of the selected author. We will be studying James

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton and Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose highlight advantages and disadvantages of universal themes in their novels. Both novels portray how ‘we are a product of the society in which we grow up.’ Through both novels we see the vulnerability of certain characters through their external pressures and internal motivations and how these desires are pinnacle to themselves and to those around. Characters in both novels portray the consequences and repercussions of stereotypical behavior. They centre the attention of the readers to the flaws and faults in the judicial system and the need for justice for those wrongly accused. Both novels highlight how important these themes are and through both advantages and disadvantages we see how theses themes play key parts in what format a characters ambitions and desires.

As my time here at Northwest Christian comes to a closes, I cannot help but feel nostalgic about the place which I have spent the last 14 years. Retrospectively, I am extraordinarily grateful to the teachers and administrators who have invested in me not merely in academics, but also in lessons on character which I plan to use throughout the course of life. Senior English has given me a chance to expand my literature library into the realm of classic fiction while also illuminating the aforementioned lessons of character. Although I certainly did not enjoy every book, I did enjoy the chance to expand my horizons by learning about various authors and the important messages within their books. My personal favorite books that we read this year

A young adult novel’s audience often desires relatable characters and a meaningful plot that helps them to find resolutions to their own uncertainties concerning life. Many authors employ the literary technique realism to satiate these cravings. Today, there are some popular novels that attempt to imitate this, such as the coveted The Fault in Our Stars or Divergent. These selections, while widespread in the hands of young adult readers today, will not stand the test of time in the way that The Outsiders has, written by S. E. Hinton in 1967, has. This novel, both produced by and intended for teenagers, instead is a better candidate of realistic young adult fiction. Other selections, from Hinton’s era and from today, do not radiate the same

For now, I'll set aside considerations of why The Goal is a novel, how effective it is as a book, whether it succeeds as literature, and so on. This article is primarily about the ideas behind the book, and why some are valuable while others are probably quite useless.

Recommendation: This manuscript is worthy of publication and would serve well in the late teen education space. It has the potential to be a staple of High School English studies owing to its historical, geographic and social placement; with an intensely focused Australian cultural slant. As a competently edited novel, this manuscript could easily offer itself to guided literary analysis and potentially has a non-compulsory market in the baby boomer generation, who post-date the literary period by two generations which will cement their identification with the trials of the protagonist.