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re: Readers of the OT - Help me pick out the novel for my research paper
Posted on 8/18/22 at 9:58 am to Saint Alfonzo
Posted on 8/18/22 at 9:58 am to Saint Alfonzo
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Let's see the full list
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Parable of the Sower- Octavia Butler
My Antonia- Willa Cather
The Red Badge of Courage- Stephen Crane
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
Tess of the D’Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy
For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
The Bluest Eye- Toni Morrison
Sons and Lovers- D. H. Lawrence
Sula- Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
The House on Mango Street- Sandra Cisneros
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton
To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf
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Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:01 am to jgoodw318
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Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
I’ve always enjoyed Brontë writing but I’m also a big Austen person. And you may not enjoy this one if you don’t like stuff from that Regency Era period.
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The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
While interesting to read because it’s Plath, it’s fricking depressing. And a window into her own depression, so it’s heavy.
With the full list I still go with:
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The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
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Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:01 am to jgoodw318
To answer a couple other questions that have been asked:
This is a English 102 level class
I am not really sure what the actual research is supposed to be on as of now. I know that I am supposed to pick one of the novel's, read it before week 10, and the research paper will be based on the book.
This is a English 102 level class
I am not really sure what the actual research is supposed to be on as of now. I know that I am supposed to pick one of the novel's, read it before week 10, and the research paper will be based on the book.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:05 am to jgoodw318
The Jungle and Anna Karenina are good ones as well but I stand by my original picks
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:08 am to jgoodw318
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Full list
My choice would be one of these two:
For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway
Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:14 am to jgoodw318
Which one has the fewest pages?
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:34 am to jgoodw318
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The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
When I started my first reply you had not posted the full list.
I had hoped for at least one great Southern novelist like Dickey, Hannah, or Faulkner.
That not being the case The Jungle is one of my all-time favorites. Depressing books often make for the best papers and this one doesn't disappoint in that area.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:36 am to jgoodw318
Surprised there’s no Ray Bradbury on there.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Postman
The Illustrated man…all great books
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Postman
The Illustrated man…all great books
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:56 am to jgoodw318
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy
Read this one and discuss how you read it in Bane-voice the whole time.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:05 am to jgoodw318
The Jungle. Easy read, lots of clear symbolism.
My credentials: College English professor. But definitely not yours with a book list like that.
Also, frick Virginia Woolf.
My credentials: College English professor. But definitely not yours with a book list like that.
Also, frick Virginia Woolf.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:12 am to jgoodw318
quote:This. My fave classic novel to this day.
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:33 am to jgoodw318
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For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway
Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
Those would be my top four in order.
Tolls is pretty straight forward about a soldier in the Spanish Civil War (drawn from Hemmingway's experience as a reporter covering the war).
Slaughterhouse is about an American POW that survives the firebombing of Dresden (based on Vonnegut's real life experience). It has some sci-fi elements (time travel and aliens), but I have always felt these are a symbol of mental health issues from PTSD.
Bell Jar, as has already been mentioned, is a semi-autobiographical novel about the authors mental health issues.
The Jungle is often called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slaves. It deals with the meat packing industry and how it uses immigrants as the employee base and keeps them in poverty, etc.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:35 am to jgoodw318
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The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
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