I have compiled a list of novels from various different sources to create, arguably, the top ten list of the greatest novels of all time. Now I have two lists, one is based on the score that the novels were given, and the other is based on how many people liked that specific novel. Discuss and comment the lists, rearrange the list, add different novels, or you can rip it to shreds and create a whole new list that suits your personal preferences. Also please give your opinion on which list you think is more accurate.
PS: Remember, if you wish to rearrange the list, make sure only 'novels' are included. That is why there is no Shakespeare or Twilight in this list in case you were wondering. (I can't believe I just used Shakespeare and Twilight in the same sentence.)
Based on Quantity
1.The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
2.Ulysses - James Joyce
3.1984 – George Orwell
4.Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
5.The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
6.Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
7.Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
8.To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
9.The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
10.Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Based on Score
1.To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
2.1984 – George Orwell
3.The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
4.Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
5.The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
6.The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
7.Lord of the Rings – J.R.R Tolkein
8.Ulysses - James Joyce
9.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
10.Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
I need to know the sequence of events for an upcoming test (tomorrow?) This is for my english 10 LS class.
I just did read it. I got to impatient to wait for an answer, your right it is a good story, better than everything else we've read (=
Thanks.
I know he has a lot of followers and I read his quotes but I couldn't get anything interesting from them. Could someone from his followers or people who read him tell my what are his most interesting ideas?
I know he has a lot of followers and I read his quotes but I didn't get anything interesting from them. Could someone from his followers or people who read him tell my what are his most interesting ideas?
I think that it would make more sense that he was against abortion, because of how sacred he thought life was in his books. However, I know that he was almost completely aligned with Democratic views, so I think it's definitely possible that he supported it. I'm not trying to start a debate, I just want to know his views on it
crown royal thats ridiculous, i am atheist and i think treasuring life and being good to other is the most important thing in life. I also don't believe in abortion.
just because atheists don't believe in a higher power doesn't mean that they don't treasure life. For the record, Kurt Vonnegut was a tireless advocate of human rights, and I think he treasured life more than some Christians do
and plz give a small summary if u don't mind-im trying to decide which one id like:::btw just ignore the 3 lists, just think of it as one; i did the 3 lists for my own knowledge. also im considering Jamica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier and East of Eden by John Steinbeck(have u read either of these? if so did u like it/them?)
list 1::
-David Copperfield-charles dickens
-the brothers karamozov-fyodor dostoevsky
-Fountainhead-ayn rand
-Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
-War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy
-Trinity-Leon Uris
-Mila 18-Leon Uris
List 2:::
-In Cold Blood-Truman Capote
-Lords of Discipline-Pat Conroy
-Moll Flanders-Daniel Defoe
-Robinson Crusoe-Daniel Defoe
-A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
-The Idiot-Fyodor Dostoevsky
-Cold Mountain-Charles Frazier
-Snow Falling on Cedars-David Gunderson
-Mayor of Casterbridge-Thomas Hardy
-Return of the Native-Thomas Hardy
-Tess of the D'Ubervilles-Thomas Hardy
-Catch-22-Joseph Heller
-For Whom the Bell Tolls-Ernest Hemingway
-Portrait of a Lady-James Henry
-Stranger in a Strange Land-Robert Heinlein
-Dune-Frank Herbert
-The World According to Garp-John Irving
-How Green Was My Valley-Richard Llewellyn
-One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-Of Human Bondage-W. Sommerset Maughm
-We were the Mulvaneys-Joyce Carol Oates
-Doctor Zhivago-Boris Pasternak
-We the living-Ayn Rand
-East of Eden-John Steinbeck
-Look Homeward Angel-Thomas Wolfe
List 3:::
-A Death in the Family-James Agee
-Foundation-Isaac Asimov
-Go Tell it on the Mountain-James Baldwin
-To Good Earth-Pearl Buck
-Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
-Jamaica Inn-Daphne Du Maurier
-Like Water for Chocolate-Laura Esquivel
-Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway
-Demain-Herman Hess
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-Turn of the Screw-James Henry
-A Splendid Thousand Suns-Khaled Hosseini
-Pigs in Heaven-Barbara Kingsolver
-Razor's Edge-W.Sommerset Maughm
-The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-Carson McCullers
-Sula-Toni Morrison
-Tar Baby-Toni Morrison
-The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
-The Chosen-Chaim Potok
-Hunger of Memory-Richard Rodriguez
-The Winthrop Woman-Anya Seton
-One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Alexander Solzhenitsyn
-Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan
-Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-Mark Twain
-Rabbit,Run-John Updike
-Slaughterhouse-Kurt Vonnegut
-Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton
Here are some I have found:
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking." -Bill Maher
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." — Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758.
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." - Wilson Mizner
"How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today." - Michel de Montaigne
"If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it." - Dalai Lama
"A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt." - Henri Frédéric Amiel
"Faith is not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, "I bet that my Redeemer liveth." - Samuel Butler
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!" - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted." - Albert Pike
"Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Faith is the belief in something you know does not exist."--Mark Twain
I am writing a book. I think.
It's about something extravagantly boring, and isn't very interesting. It also isn't very good. It won't be very good, I mean. Well, actually, it might be okay, but in an awful sort of way.
It's going to be written badly. Grammar and syntax will be disregarded. They have no friends.
The protagonist is going to communicate by way of farts and tap-dances. I got that idea from Kurt Vonnegut. Oh and this book will also not be very original. In fact, it will be so unoriginal that I will start if off by saying "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." I got that idea from him too. It will end with "Buy our new Trojan Condoms for only $3.99!!!" I haven't yet decided for why it will end like this, but it will.
It will be printed on recycled copy-paper, also known as "copie papel" in Spanish. It doesn't bleed, and it doesn't jam. Reliability Guaranteed.
I will give it to some hobo and say "read".
No, I wont. He would run after me with a spork and try to kill me for that.
How do you like this story idea? Do you like my plot? What? I have no plot? Oh. Well, how do you like my plot?
i have to do a book project that inclues the following:
1 background and summary of the novel
-characters
-settings
-plot
-conflicts
2 Style
-genre
-point of view
-organization of writing
3 analysis and quotes
-interpretations
-connections
-evaluations
-reflections
thanks so much!
haha actually i finished the book and project already, i just want to see anyone else's point of view also.
well thanks? haha
I was reading the novel "Hocus Pocus" by Kurt Vonnegut, and he mentions the drink in a chapter. He then states a woman introduced him to the drink, and a few pages I've looked at say it's sort of a girlie drink.
Anyway, it sounds like a good drink.
Regardless of girlie or not, I'll order it next time I'm out. I just wanted to know out of curiosity if it was considered typically a gentleman's drink, or more of a girlie ordeal?
I'm looking for a book that will help my mental focus get back on track, but I have really picky and strange preference of books...I wish there was a Pandora for books, but I was hoping if someone heard my favorites, they would have some suggestions:
slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut
Harry potter
The merchant of Venice
The Importance of Being Earnest
Good Grief by Lilly Winston
True Blue by Leanne Rice
and thats all i can think of for now...
Is this a good thesis statement for Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, the character of Billy Pilgrim is used to portray Vonnegut's mental and physical experiences concerning the bombing of Dresden
"If I should die, let this be my epitaph: His only proof for the existence of God, was music."
-Kurt Vonnegut (from YA user Ashley)
It's a rather abstract question. Answer it however you feel like it should be answered.
:)
I've come to the conclusion that practically all high school (and some older!) boys immediately look are a girl's chest or behind before even taking in what her face looks like, so I began to wonder and ask you now: Should girls even go through the hassle to make themselves up if boys barely even pay attention to her face?
Kurt Vonnegut wrote, "The [naked teenage] girls screamed. They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful." You see, I don't find that degrading. It's very beautiful. In the same book, he writes, "Maggie White was a dull peron, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away." I find even that not sexist - at least it shows us that women can do something right.
So, guys - what do you think is beautiful about a girl? Natural beauty? A fake face? A hot bod? A smart brain? A nice scent? Confidence?
Feel free to add to the MEN ARE SEXIST PIGS debate.
They obviously aren't. I'm just speaking about a great deal of boys I see in the 10th grade.
OBVIOUSLY not, Mr. American Flag avatar whose name I am too lazy to forget. I'm wondering when teenage girls will treated with respect by their male colleagues.
I guess I sort of squished all of my questions into one. I didn't mean to offend any men, if that is what you're implying...
In the novel Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut describes the faults in a world where everything is equal. Do you agree with his description, or do you think he overlooked certain things about his world?
If you have not read the story, you can find it here:
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html
EDIT: In first sentence, I said 'novel', when I should have said 'short story'. Sorry peeps
Such as people like Stephanie Meyer who can't even learn the processes of punctuation and grammar and yet manages to make more money than James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr ever did combined?
I'm an aspiring writer and seeing this trite garbage make more money than I ever will just plain out pisses me off.
Anyone else harbor these feelings?
By trite garbage I am referring to Mrs. Meyers herself.
To HUMANBEING:
You really weren't paying attention were you? And secondly, what?
To Huma:
Duly noted.
Throughout our history, there have been many great authors; George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Mary Shelley, Thomas Paine, Homer, Kurt Vonnegut, and the list goes on. There have also been many mediocre ones that were still good enough to get published. The above statements are rather inherent.
What isn't inherent, however, is why some fifteen year-olds think that they have the literary prowess to write a book. Too often on this section, I see questions that are similar to (or the same as) the title of my question. These stories infallibly prove to be bad.
Too often, the authors of these stories enlist the help (I should actually say major burden) of purple prose. They feel that to write a good book, they must fill every line and paragraph with as many similes, metaphors, personifications and other literary devices as they possibly can. Not only that, but it seems they open up their trusty thesaurus and try to find a synonym of each word, trying to sound sophisticated.
Prematurely ending my rant (yes, I have more "grievances" to address), I would like to ask two questions:
1.What makes fifteen year old authors think that they can write, let alone publish, a good book?
2. What is up with their affinity for purple prose?
By the way, in case you are wondering, I am in no way saying that I can write a good book, short story or anything similar.
I liked "harrison bergeron" by kurt vonnegut... where is a good place to find a handful of other good short stories by him. i found a bunch of collections but some are biographical. even single short story titles are appreciated!
Thesis:
In “Harrison Bergeron”, Kurt Vonnegut demonstrates that total equality is undesirable by setting the story in the future, by using satire to exaggerate how awful equality is to persuade the reader that they should oppose equality and by using symbols such as handicaps and the media are also used to argue that total equality is undesirable.
Conclusion:
In conclusion in “Harrison Bergeron”, Kurt Vonnegut shows that total equality is undesirable by setting the story in the future to show the reader what would eventually occur if the idea of equality was taken to the extreme. Satire is also used to exaggerate how awful equality is to persuade readers to believe that total equality will violate human rights. Kurt Vonnegut also uses symbols such as handicaps which make everyone equal and Harrison Bergeron to display the lack of freedom present in a world of total equality.
My conclusion should have an intersening ending what do u suggest?
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp by John Irving
38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
51. My Antonia by Willa Cather
52. Howards End by E. M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
68. Light in August by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
This is a list of banned books. The list was prepared by the American Library Association as part of banned book week.
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/index.cfm
What's to keep them from taking the next step, and having any male who masturbates to orgasm charged with capital murder? Somebody else asked this question and I found it rather interesting. There is a place in the Bible, I think, that even says that God doesn't approve of people "bopping the bishop" and wasting all that good "seed."
So could the conservatives actually take this issue into Kurt Vonnegut-style absurdity?
Oh, and for the record? I do know the difference between the "Goldwater"-era Republicans and the neo-cons. Maybe those who think I'm just throwing the term out there to be 'cool' should do something they're not used to...a little thing called 'READING'.
This is the list of choices my teacher gave us. We have to pick four books to read throughout the year. Any opinions on book I defianatley should or should not read? By the way, I'm a freshmen in honors english and I hate reading.. if that matters. Thanks!
Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes
Steinbeck, John East of Eden
Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of Butterflies.
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees.
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Posionwood Bible
Hosseini, Khalad A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hosseini, Khalad Kite Runner
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Zinn, Howard A People’s History of the United States
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Nabokov, Vladimir
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Kerouac, Jack On the Road
Dostoevsky Brothers Karamozov
Wharton, Edith Age of Innocence
Tolsky Anna Karina
Paton Cry the Beloved Country
Stoker, Bram Dracula
Atwood, M The Handsmaid Tale
Morrison, Toni Beloved
Plath The Bell Jar
Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Salinger Franny and Zooey
Alverez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
Atlas Shrugged Rand
Bastard Out of Carolina Allison
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway
Dubliners Joyce
The Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert The Stranger
Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Dante Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Heller, Joseph Catch 22
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior
Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt
Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Strange Land.
O'Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Proust, Marcel Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
Kuralt, Charles Charles Kuralt's America.
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travel
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Alex Kotlowitz There Are No Children Here
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Yusunari Kawabata Thousand Cranes
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
Cather, Willa My Antonia
Shepard, Alan Moon Shot: The Inside Story
Potok, Chaim The Chosen
Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth Having Our Say
Here are some of the authors and books I have enjoyed. I appreciate all the help! Jumpa Lahiri (Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Shadow of the wind), Markus Zusak (The Book Thief), Elizabeth Gilbert, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Sedaris.
The author uses repetition and imagery to reveal to readers that war is destructive, and death is everywhere in war. The images and repetition used in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughter House Five" develop and help the reader understand the overall effect of the war scenes.
i must know the "protagonist", "antagonist", "conflict" and "theme" of the following stories:
-"The Sniper" By liam o'flaherty
-"The Most Dangerous Game" By richard connell
-"A Sound of Thunder" By ray Bradbury
-"Poison" By roald dahl
-"The Interlopers" By saki
-"Harrison Bergeron" by kurt vonnegut
-"The Gift of the Magi" by o. henry
-"The Necklace" by guy de maupassant
-"The Cask of Amontillado" by edgar allan poe
-"The Scarlet Ibis" By james hurst
-"American History" By judith ortiz cofer
pleeeasse help me :)
In “Harrison Bergeron”, Kurt Vonnegut shows that equality is not desirable by setting the story in the future to show the reader what would eventually occur if the idea of equality was taken to the extreme. Kurt Vonnegut also uses symbols in Kurt Vonnegut such as handicaps to make everyone equal and the way in which the media allows the Handicapper General to control what everyone thinks. Satire is also used to persuade readers to believe that total equality will violate human rights and human nature.
In “Harrison Bergeron”, Kurt Vonnegut shows that equality is not desirable by using symbols such as handicaps and the media which makes everyone equal by preventing people from making decisions and allowing the Handicapper General to control what you think and by setting the story in the future to show the reader what would eventually occur if total equality took place and what would happen if we do not act now. Satire is also used to persuade readers to believe that total equality will rob humans of their rights and go against human nature.
Okay so do u think its too long?
Is it too short? Not specific enough
tell me how i can improve on it please
This is property of Jasmine Yu
Towards the end when you see the police about to bust the crime slut woman, the one police officer is sitting on a bench reading a Kurt Vonnegut novel and a piano song starts. Then it changes to the police going into the church with the guy reading the novel. What is that piano song? Anyone know? I've tried shazam and googling it but its been to no avail. Any help appreciated.
Its not Metal Heart. There are no words in the song, just the piano and then the police officer is reading a novel in the background.
So I went on a bit of a splurge the other day at my local bookstore and bought a lot of books that have been on my reading list for a very long time. Now that I have them, I have no idea where to begin! I keep starting a page from one book, then find myself really wanting to read the other one, and then when I read a page from that, I want to read the other, etc. I'm just too excited, so I need your help. It's all right if you haven't read the books, either, so long as you've heard great things about it. Here's the list:
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery by Philip Pullman
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
1984 by George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Peter and the Starcatchers Trilogy
This is the list of choices my teacher gave us. We have to pick four books to read throughout the year. Any opinions on book I defianatley should or should not read? By the way, I'm a freshmen in honors english and I hate reading.. if that matters. Thanks!
Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes
Steinbeck, John East of Eden
Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of Butterflies.
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees.
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Posionwood Bible
Hosseini, Khalad A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hosseini, Khalad Kite Runner
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Zinn, Howard A People’s History of the United States
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Nabokov, Vladimir
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Kerouac, Jack On the Road
Dostoevsky Brothers Karamozov
Wharton, Edith Age of Innocence
Tolsky Anna Karina
Paton Cry the Beloved Country
Stoker, Bram Dracula
Atwood, M The Handsmaid Tale
Morrison, Toni Beloved
Plath The Bell Jar
Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Salinger Franny and Zooey
Alverez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
Atlas Shrugged Rand
Bastard Out of Carolina Allison
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway
Dubliners Joyce
The Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert The Stranger
Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Dante Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Heller, Joseph Catch 22
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior
Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt
Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Strange Land.
O'Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Proust, Marcel Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
Kuralt, Charles Charles Kuralt's America.
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travel
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Alex Kotlowitz There Are No Children Here
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Yusunari Kawabata Thousand Cranes
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
Cather, Willa My Antonia
Shepard, Alan Moon Shot: The Inside Story
Potok, Chaim The Chosen
Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth Having Our Say
Kurt Vonnegut's uses many images to enhance the overall effect of Slaughterhouse- Five. Throughout the novel, in both war scenes and in the protagonist's travels back and forward in time, the many images produce a believable story of the unusual life of Billy Pilgrim. Vonnegut uses color imagery andrepetitive images, to develop the novel and create situations that the reader can accept and comprehend.
i am in ap english and this year i have to read 4 books out of the following list as outside reads.
if you have read any of these books or have heard any feedback tell me whether you would or would not recommend them
Things Fall Apart- chinuah achebe
Who's Afraid of the Virginia Woolf?- edward albee
The Handmaid's Tale- margaret atwood
*Pride and Prejudice- jane austen
Wuthering Heights- emily bronte
The Stranger- albert camus
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
*Crime and Punishment- fyodor dostievsky
The Mill on the Floss- George Elliot
Silas Marner- George Elliot
Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison
The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner
*Room with a View- E.M. Forster
Toss of the D'Ubervilles- Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native- Thomas Hardy
*Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Sun also Rises- Ernest Hemmingway
*A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseini
*Turn of the Screw- Henry James
*The Portrait of a Lady- Henry James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man- James Joyce
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabrielle Garcia Marquez
The Shipping News- E. Annie Proulx
The Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rhys
Ceremony- Leslie Marmon Silko
*Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
Johnny got his Gun- Dalton Trumbo
Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple- Alison Walker
All the Kings Men- Robert Penn Warren
The Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton
*The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams
Mrs. Dolloway- Virginia Woolfe
Native Son- Richard Wright
there were also plays but i ommitted them because i do not usually enjoy plays
*starred books i already own and would not have to borrow or purchase, or they seemed interesting to me
it says:
All these varieties of speech are beautiful, just as the varieties of butterflies are beautiful. No matter what your first language, you should treasure it all your life. If it happens to not be standard English, and if it shows itself when your write standard English, the result is usually delightful, like a very pretty girl with one eye that is green and one that is blue.
can someone explain the simile in the last line ?
thanks soooo much !!! (:
I feel like a total nerd ha ha.
but i haven't read a good book in a long time.
I enjoy books by Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahniuk, Dan Brown.
some of my favorite books include: The Perks of Being a Wallflower,Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Pure Sunshine, The Bell Jar, Angels & Demons, A Million Little Pieces.
any suggestions?
In Slaughter House 5 Kurt Vonnegut always mentions that Billy Pilgrim became unstuck in time. Time is always moving either too fast or too slow for me. I am one place and then one hour goes by and I think it has been one minute and vice versa. How do I become unstuck in time and choose how fast it goes? Please I need help.
"if god were alive today, he'd be an atheist" - Kurt Vonnegut
atheists: i found this wonderful web page... its quite witty and funny. check it out: http://www.stickergiant.com/religious-comments_bscom_pg1
I can't find a photo or any information anywhere, and I can't figure out why...
Could you provide proof of your answer, either in a photograph or link?
Thanks
