Month: August 2018
Characters
A character is a person portrayed in a narrative work. This ‘person’ can also be a personified animal or object, like the animals in Animal Farm and the tiger in Life of Pi. Most main […]
Novel Complexity (Labels)
Labels are a way to indicate the strength of a novel. This is a combination of plot, langugae, ideas, and number of pages. To indicate novels in such a system will always be controversial. What […]
The Five Elements of Fiction
There are five main elements of fiction to be found in (nearly) every piece of fiction: plot, setting characters, narrative perspective, and theme. Plot is the sequence of events and their relationship in a […]
Story Design (Freytag’s Pyramid)
Classical plot Aelius Donatus, a Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric from the mid-fourth century AD, gave a plot structure for plays (novels did not exist yet). Very simply put, a play has a beginning […]
What is literature and why read it?
What is literature? There is no definition, there are no boundaries that tell what makes a work literary. There is a continuous debate on what is literature, as if the term itself is the holy […]
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita is a controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov that tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who becomes infatuated with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze, whom he nicknames Lolita. The book explores […]
I’m the King of the Castle (Susan Hill)
I’m the King of the Castle Author: Susan Hill List: Modern Classic Year of publication: 1970 Pages: 224 Goodreads: I’m the King of my Castle