Essays on Fiction

Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) was the Man-Booker Prize winning first novel. It is written in an epistolary style. The style of the story is in first-person narrative style. The contemporary Indian English literature captures the threat of violence. The narrator discloses his personal…

Suspense is the extraordinary inclination that a crowd of people experiences while hanging tight for the result of specific occasions. It essentially leaves the audience holding their breath and needing more. Like in the short story’s Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, A Good Man is…

The text The Crying of Lot 49 is a book written by Thomas Pynchon the dwells on the life of an American housewife. Distinctively, the setting of the book is in the 1960s when the postal system was the main medium of communication. In the…

The story narrates the life of a rich and materialistic woman named Rosemary who tries to be charitable and compassionate to others who are less unfortunate. However, her generosity is not genuine as has more to do with the novels of such selfless acts that…

Written in 411 BCE, two years after the disastrous Athenian defeat in her Expedition to Sicily, the events of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata take place during a similar conflict-ridden setting of the Peloponnesian War between the dominant powers of Athens and Sparta. This is important to highlight…

A brilliant page turner for readers who love brilliant storyline and drama. Angels and Demons is an outstanding thriller, mystrey and crime fiction by Dan Brown, is also the writer who wrote “Da Vinci Code.’ The book has the same protagonist, Robert Langdon who is…

Robert Langdon Robert Langdon is a Harvard University professor of history of art and ‘symbology’. Langdon is an expert in Illuminati related conspiracies and finds himself pursuing the Illuminati in Vatican City and Rome in an attempt to save people from the explosion of stolen…

The second part of “Picking Cotton” starts off with Ronald Cotton heading down to the police station to figure out why he has a warrant out for his arrest. Cotton arrives at the police station and is immediately sent into an interrogation room where he…

In the short story, “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses” by American author Irwin Shaw, a married couple, Michael and Frances Loomis take a leisurely walk through Fifth Avenue on a warm Sunday morning in November. This stroll is interrupted by Frances when she begins…

There was once a time where the Middle East was as cold as a freezer on Earth and Antarctica was a hot microwave. There was a wizard that was in control of the climate of the earth because he did a spell that granted him…