Novel Creative Writings Samples For Students

C. S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”

Synopsis

C. S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” follows the adventures of the Pevensie children – Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. During World War II, their parents sent them to live in the country with a certain Professor Kirke to keep their children safe. On a rainy day, the Pevensie children play a game and explore Professor Kirke’s house. Lucy, the youngest among the four children, discovers a wardrobe in one of the rooms. Entranced by the wardrobe, Lucy opens it and steps inside only to discover another world. Lucy ventures ...

Probably one of the finest science fiction novels ever written, The Hunger Games is definitely a feather of the cap of American writer’s Suzanne Collins. Katniss Everdeen is the main character in the novel and she has an authority in the metropolis of The Capitol where there is political influence and almost completes control of the population.
There is hubris in the sense of the gladiator battle to the death that is created by the battle on television, a highly original plot which caused quite a stir and controversy at the time. The novel is a sure fire read and has a ...

Dear Readers,

I was born in the Appalachian Mountains in the small coal-mining town of Grundy, which was almost ten miles from the Kentucky border. Our home at on Main Street, and we had the Levisa Fork River running right behind it. After graduating from college my mother had moved to Grundy to become a teacher in a school. My father was owned and operated a Ben Franklin store in our town.
Right after I graduated from Hollins with a Bachelors degree in English, I got married to my husband. My husband James is a poet and teacher, and since his teaching assignments kept on ...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a unique and memorable novel. The author introduces, and develops, the tender relationship between a father and son, against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic disaster. The violence and grizzly concepts make this novel not a good choice for the literarily sensitive, the love-story between the Man and the Boy is a gem not to be missed. As the title implies, McCarthy’s style is simple and consistent, providing a contrast to the complex subject matter of the novel.
The point of view selected by McCarthy for The Road is third person omniscient. However, there are some major differences ...

Introduction

Extremely Loud and Extremely Close is a novel published and released in 2005. The novel was written by renowned author, Jonathan Safran Foer. The novel’s main protagonist is Oskar Schell, an extraordinary lad of nine years who is inspired by a key that he finds in his deceased father’s vase to embark on an extensive search across New York City looking for information on the key. Some of the main characters in the novel include his mother, his grandparents and a host of other support characters.
Through the funny and precocious narration of the nine year of Oscar, the ...

in the Modern Analysis of Novelistic Prose

Bakhtin’s Heteroglossia and its Place in the Modern Analysis of Novelistic Prose

In the King James Bible, the Gospel of John opens with the following words, “In the beginning was the Word.” The unquestionable immutability of the Word is emphasized in the text that follows – “and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” While for Michail Bakhtin, the Russian philosopher and linguist, having just one meaning of the spoken words – whether in regular life or in novels – is something that signifies “the narrowness of this type of thinking and its inadequacy in all areas of discourse’s artistic life.” For him, ...

Although Sophie Caco was raised by her aunt, Tante Atie until she was 12, a psychological connection created between Sophie and her natural mother, Martine, a bound that traveled beyond the distance that separated them, a bound that was in their genes. The inheritance is by far the predominant theme of Danticat’s novel and it explores how the familial past can influence one’s future.
As a teenager, Martine was continuously the subject of her mother testing her virginity. The author somehow suggests that this is a common practice in the Haitian families, although she addresses a letter to Sophie, at the end ...

Creative Writing on Toni Morrison’s Novel Song of Salomon Chapter 1 Pages 41-44

A Fairy tale: “A Brown Piece of Paper”. Once upon a time there lived a man whose name was Macon Dead. He was a very unusual man for he named all his children, except for the first-born male, by thumbing at random in the Bible. His wife died giving birth to their daughter and a poor man was confused and devastated by his loss. But a girl needed a name. So broken-hearted father took a Bible, and, as he could not read, chose a group of letters that seemed to him strong and handsome: he imagined that it was ...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his novels and short stories that describe the so-called American "Jazz Age" of the 1920s ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" 1).
He is the author of the novels The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, The Last Tycoon. He is one of the greatest US prose writers of the XX century ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" 1).
In the minds of contemporaries F. Scott Fitzgerald was and remains not only a writer, but a living legend, the embodiment of the spirit of the time. In the 1920s he became the idol of ...

Released in 1951, Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" is a story of a seventeen year old American schoolboy Holden Caulfield, who was excluded from his school before Christmas for academic failure. The main idea of ​​the novel is the rejection of falsehood, which is manifested in the moral standards prevailing in the society and in the people, events, objects. This is closely linked to the image of the protagonist. Holden Caulfield introduces the reader not only to the external part of his life (time-space of the novel consists of three days, one of which the hero stays ...

The Name of Instructor

The Name of the Institution
Short Story Scenario Using Two (2) Different Genres to Write the Same Story
Comedy Genre Beginning with a Complication Story Starter Scenario
“Shut up!” she said while gritting her teeth together and kicking him hard on the leg beneath the table.
“Ouch! What?! I didn’t say anything!” he charged as he attempted to soothe his leg by rubbing it gently with his hand.
“You might as well have! Look at how you’re looking at her cleavage and hyperventilating like a mad man!” Sharon said to him scowling and trying to lower her ...

- Characterization: Characterization is defined as a literary device that the writer uses to highlight and explain step by step a character’s details in a story.
- Flat character: A flat character in a work of fiction is a character with little development. The character does not change or undergo significant change as the story progresses.
- Round Character: A round character is a term coined by E. M. Foster. It is opposite to a flat character, and is defined as a complex character that changes and is developed by the writer during the course of the story.
- Stock Character: A stock ...

Janie’s moments of transition

We see Janie as an old woman at the beginning of the novel. She struggles to control her language and voice which shows the quest for defining her life which is complicated and with no single resolution for her. She dreams and desires a lot but also chooses what to forget which makes it difficult to define. Janie in this case is victim of psychological fragmentation of black America and modernity. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she portrays an unformed and undefined character. Her ambitions are to have a life not controlled or defined by her nanny. She ...

Collodi Carlos, a stage name for Lorezini Carlo wrote Pinocchio in 1883. The initial publications of this story were serialized in Italian prior to its publication as “The Adventures of Pinocchio”. In 1892, the novel was first translated from its original language to English language. From this time of the translation, several editions have been published. The most notable version of the novel is the version published by Sweet M. M, which was published in 1927. Walt Disney made the story into a movie in 1940. The story talks about a wooden marionette, which is named Pinocchio. He spends all his childhood ...