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In one’s life, we dream to live freely and happily and this matches the American Dream. The latter appears in “Of Mice and Men”, adapted from John Steinbeck’s novel and directed in 1992 by Gary Sinise. The American Dream represents "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” said J. Adams, the first writer who coined this term in his book “The Epic of America”. The American dream is a pillar

for children and then a first novel, The Snake’s Pass (1890), which was unsuccessful. Stoker’s fortunes changed in 1897 with the publication of Dracula, which still stands as his greatest -literary achievement. Although the novel was not an immediate popular success, it has been in print continuously since its first publication and has inspired countless films and other literary works. Stoker continued to write until his death in 1912, producing several adventure novels, including The Jewel of Seven

Dreiser Sister Carrie, is a novel telling the story of young girl, Caroline Meeber, who moves out from her family house in Columbia City to Chicago in order to join her sister and experience « life ». In Sister Carrie, Dreiser delivers a description of the late 19th century Chicago, for the novel is written in a realistic genre. Thus, we can see how he depicts the social classes and home of the time. We can also wonder how home and social classes are linked in the novel. We shall answer this question

A biography of Doris Lessing. Doris Lessing, (born Doris May Taylor in Kermanshah,Persia on October 22nd 1919) is a British writer, the author of works such as the novel "The Grass is Singing" and "The Golden Notebook". She was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Her Life. Her father, who had lost a leg during his service in World War I met his future wife, a nurse, at the Royal Free Hospital where he was recovering from his amputation.Alfred Taylor moved his family to Persia

Bibliographie : • Faustine Boateng, At the Crossroads: Adolescence in the Novels of Mariama Bâ, Aminata Sow Fall, Ken Bugul and Khadi Fall, HowardUniversity, septembre 1995 • Susan Stringer, « Cultural Conflict in the Novels of Two African Writers, Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall », A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, 1988, supplement p.36-41 • Dorothy Davis Wills, « Economic Violence in Postcolonial Senegal: Noisy Silence in Novels by Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall », dans Violence, Silence and Anger:

students, he scraps the traditional history curriculum and tells them stories of the fens instead. These stories form the substance of the novel, which takes place mainly in two time frames: the present, and the year 1943, when Tom Crick is fifteen years old. The traumatic events of his adolescence reach forward in time to influence the present. The structure of the novel, which frequently moves back and forth in time, also suggests the fluidity of the interaction between past and present. Tom's tale

Grant Wiggins - The protagonist and narrator of the novel, an elementary school teacher in his mid-twenties. Grant is intelligent and willful, but also somewhat hypocritical and depressed. A life spent in a segregated, racist community has made him bitter. He has no faith in himself, his society, or his church. He does not believe anything will ever change and thinks escape is the only option. He fears committing himself to a fight he cannot win. This defeatist attitude makes him shun responsibility

an identity crisis. One should also keep in mind that the Wonderland is displayed in Carroll’s novel to criticize the real world: Britain’s 19th century Victorian society. With these basic principles about Alice’s adventures in Wonderland, we are able to compare the notion of wonderland and see if it may apply to Henderson’s eventful moments in America. We shall see that America in William Boyd’s novel like Carroll’s wonderland is hesitating between an enchanted surrealistic place and a dreadful

At the beginningof the movie, Buiiuelinformsus that it was "inspired"by PierreLouys's novel La Femme et le pantin (The Woman and the Puppet).2 Written in the closing years of the nineteenth century, the novel describes a wealthy Spanish gentleman's frustratingpursuit of an Andalusian girl of sadomasochistic leanings.3 Buiiuel's film is not merely "inspired"by Louys's book, it is remarkably faithful to the novel in terms of plot, character, incident, and dialogue.4 Bufiueleven takes his title from

The old man and the sea Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist. In 1954, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature thanks to his last and well-known work called: The old man and the sea. This novel was written in 1951 and published in 1952. It is considered as a classic of the literacy. 1/ Plot summary The main character, Santiago, is an old and poor Cuban fisherman. He is very unlucky as he has been 84 days without catching anything. However, this old man