Outside Reading Padlet by Kavi Dewan https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh Short Analysis of Outside Reading Books en-us 2017-03-20 19:41:02 UTC 2026-03-23 22:15:57 UTC hello@padlet.com The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161315447 Summary: Set in the 1920s, the novel deals with a group of aimless expatriates in France and Spain. They are members of the cynical and disillusioned post-World War I Lost Generation, many of whom suffer psychological and physical wounds as a result of the war. Two of the novel’s main characters, Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes, typify this generation. Lady Brett drifts through a series of affairs despite her love for Jake; she and Jake are unable to consummate their love, because of a war wound that rendered him impotent. Friendship, stoicism, and natural grace under pressure are offered as the values that matter in an otherwise amoral and often senseless world.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Sun-Also-Rises

My Opinion: While this story sounds interesting, I have my heart set on another novel. I may take a look at this novel in the future.]]> 2017-03-20 19:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161315447 Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161315669 Summary: In lyrical prose influenced by folk tales that the author heard while assembling her anthology of African American folklore Mules and Men (1935), Janie Crawford tells of her three marriages, her growing self-reliance, and her identity as a black woman. Much of the dialogue conveys psychological insight through plain speech written in dialect. Whereas her first two husbands are domineering, Janie’s third husband, Tea Cake, is easygoing and reluctantly willing to accept Janie as an equal.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Their-Eyes-Were-Watching-God

My Opinion: I don't find the summary of this story as interesting or appealing as some of the other novels.]]> 2017-03-20 19:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161315669 The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161315920 Summary: This thinly veiled autobiography details the life of Esther Greenwood, a college woman who struggles through a mental breakdown in the 1950s. Plath examines coming of age in a hypocritical world in this painfully introspective novel, which is noted for its symbolic use of bottles and jars and black-and-white colours and its symbols of imprisonment and death.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bell-Jar

My Opinion: I don't find the summary of this story as interesting or appealing as some of the other novels.]]> 2017-03-20 19:47:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161315920 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou) kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316186 Summary: In her distinctive lyrical prose, Angelou recounts the first seventeen years of her life, discussing her unsettled childhood in America in the 1930s and her changing relationships. When her parents separate, Maya and her brother Bailey, three and four years old respectively, are sent from their parental home in California back to the segregated South, to live with their grandmother, Momma, in rural Arkansas. Momma provides a strict moral center to their lives. At the age of eight, Maya goes to stay with her mother in St. Louis, where she is molested and raped by her mother’s partner. With her brother she later returns to stay with Momma before returning again to live with her mother and her mother’s husband in California. The book ends with the birth of Maya’s first child, Guy.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/I-Know-Why-the-Caged-Bird-Sings

My Opinion: While this story sounds interesting, I have my heart set on another novel. I may take a look at this novel in the future.]]> 2017-03-20 19:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316186 This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald) kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316273 Summary: This Side of Paradise, first novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. Immature though it seems today, the work when it was published was considered a revelation of the new morality of the young in the early Jazz Age, and it made Fitzgerald famous. The novel’s hero, Amory Blaine, is a handsome, spoiled young man who attends Princeton, becomes involved in literary activities, and has several ill-fated romances. A portrait of the Lost Generation, the novel addresses Fitzgerald’s later theme of love distorted by social climbing and greed.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/This-Side-of-Paradise

My Opinion: I don't find the summary of this story as interesting or appealing as some of the other novels.]]> 2017-03-20 19:48:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316273 In Cold Blood (Truman Capote kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316373 Summary: Capote’s most famous work is a pioneering example of both the "nonfiction novel" and the modern "true crime" story. It retells the story of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Kansas by a pair of drifting misfits, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, and of the subsequent trial and execution of the killers. Capote also uses the polarities of this particular case as the starting point for a larger examination of the values of late 1950s and early 1960s America; the respectable Clutters are so wholesomely all-American that they could almost have been invented, while Smith and Hickock come over as brutal real life versions of the James Dean "rebel" culture. The world of the victims is painstakingly and sympathetically reconstructed, but Capote’s real interest is in the emotional lives of Perry and Dick, and what might have led them into such murderous excess. Indeed, some argue that Capote was so fascinated by Perry Smith because he saw in him a possible alternative version of himself.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/In-Cold-Blood-novel-by-Capote

My Opinion: I don't find the summary of this story as interesting or appealing as some of the other novels.
]]> 2017-03-20 19:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316373 Tortilla Curtain (T.C. Boyle) kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316498 Summary: Delaney Mossbacher is a left-leaning nature writer who lives a comfortable life in affluent style with his wife Kyra, a hard-working realtor. One day Delaney hits an illegal Mexican immigrant with his car. He never learns the Mexican's name, which is Candidó. The accident occurs when Candidó darts without caution into a busy street.

Source: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-tortilla-curtain/#gsc.tab=0

My Opinion: While this story sounds interesting, I have my heart set on another novel. I may take a look at this novel in the future.]]> 2017-03-20 19:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316498 Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316557 Summary: Middlesex, a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, spans the lives of three generations of the Stephanides family. Protagonist Calliope (Cal) Stephanides undergoes a spiritual rebirth as he comes to terms with his family’s history and how it inevitably led to his hermaphroditic birth. The story takes place in 1922 in Bithynios, Greece.

Source: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-middlesex/#gsc.tab=0

My Opinion: I don't find the summary of this story as interesting or appealing as some of the other novels.]]> 2017-03-20 19:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316557 Empire Falls (Richard Russo) kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316685 Summary: Empire Falls (2001), by Richard Russo, is set in a small, working-class town that has fallen upon hard times. Unlike Russo's previous novels, which are set in upstate New York, this novel is set in Maine, where Russo lived for several years prior to its composition.

Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/empire-falls

My Opinion: I don't find the summary of this story as interesting or appealing as some of the other novels.]]> 2017-03-20 19:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316685 The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316730 Summary: The Handmaid’s Tale, dystopian novel (1985) by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The book won numerous awards and has been widely adapted for film, television, and stage, including opera and ballet.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Handmaids-Tale-by-Atwood

My Opinion: I don't find the summary of this story as interesting or appealing as some of the other novels.]]> 2017-03-20 19:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316730 The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316875 Summary:The Joy Luck Club (1989; film 1993). The novel relates the experiences of four Chinese mothers, their Chinese American daughters, and the struggles of the two disparate cultures and generations to relate to each other.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amy-Tan#ref661981

My Opinion: I find this book extremely interesting and I would love to read it. I also can relate, in some ways, to the characters of the book because, like them, I am a child of immigrants.]]> 2017-03-20 19:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161316875 Native Son (Richard Wright) kavid3857 https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161382561 Summary: Native Son, novel by Richard Wright, published in 1940. The novel addresses the issue of white American society’s responsibility for the repression of blacks. The plot charts the decline of Bigger Thomas, a young African American imprisoned for two murders—the accidental smothering of his white employer’s daughter and the deliberate killing of his girlfriend to silence her. In his cell Thomas confronts his growing sense of injustice and concludes that violence is the only alternative to submission to white society.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Native-Son

My Opinion: While this story sounds interesting, I have my heart set on another novel. I may take a look at this novel in the future.]]> 2017-03-21 05:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kavid3857/m8ygenqld5vh/wish/161382561