... emotional responses from the readers. Often, her stories discuss a character trying to understand the truth about the world they live in. She writes about several different themes including good and evil, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, friendship, and death. In 1996, Morrison received a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. She published her ... slave masters, who manipulated biblical passages to stifle dissatisfaction among those whom they oppressed. I don't see Alexander's argument as a problem with the novel in comparison to m...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the characters, their roles and their emotions, the novel is much more informative. Secondly, the novel is capable of giving readers more insight into the story with the use of symbols and hidden meanings. The novel is able to do this because it depicts important underlying messages and critical incidents. For instance, Piggy's glasses represent civilization, reality and reason but once ... aren't finding reason in their actions and civilization is becoming a thing of the past. Another meaningful symbol is the dead parachutist because this suggests that some of the boys have evil within...

• Word Count: 577
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... grandly ignores the value systems of our institutions, it deals entirely with the profane. Its great themes are incest and cannibalism. Character and events are exaggerated beyond reality to become symbols, ideas and passions. Its style will tend to be ornate, unnatural and thus operate against the perennial human desire to believe the word as fact. Its only humor is black ... authoritative model for the high Gothic novel of unmitigated hideousness and extravagant supernaturalism" (p7 Barron). Lewis offers the reader a continuing extravaganza of horrid shock while subjecting both his go...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... grandly ignores the value systems of our institutions, it deals entirely with the profane. Its great themes are incest and cannibalism. Character and events are exaggerated beyond reality to become symbols, ideas and passions. Its style will tend to be ornate, unnatural and thus operate against the perennial human desire to believe the word as fact. Its only humor is black ... authoritative model for the high Gothic novel of unmitigated hideousness and extravagant supernaturalism" (p7 Barron). Lewis offers the reader a continuing extravaganza of horrid shock while subjecting both his go...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate