In the last chapter the novel's hero Oskar Matzerath and his friend Gottfried von Vittlar steal a tram late at night from outside Unterrath depot on the northern edge of Düsseldorf.

The novel's protagonist, Pavel Korchagin, represented the " young hero " of Russian literature: he is dedicated to his political causes, which help him to overcome his tragedies.

The 1973 BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero featured Christopher Cazenove playing a number of such title characters ( e. g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond ), including James Bond in dramatised scenes from Goldfinger – notably featuring the hero being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam – and Diamonds Are Forever.

The novel was an inspiration to many later Russian revolutionaries, who sought to emulate the novel's hero Rakhmetov, who was wholly dedicated to the revolution, ascetic in his habits and ruthlessly disciplined, to the point of sleeping on a bed of nails and eating only raw steak in order to build strength for the Revolution.

The womanizing of the hero serves to highlight the belief of both Pedro Archanjo and the novel's author that uninhibited sexual passion between people of different races and colors ( and the resulting mixed children ) is Brazil's unique solution to racism.

In Fredric Brown's science-fiction novel What Mad Universe a magazine editor from our own world is accidentally sent to a parallel Earth significantly different from ours ; in this parallel world, the editor reads a biography written of a dashing space hero, a figure central to the novel's narrative, which is supposedly written by Paul Gallico.

In Uncle Rudolf ( 2002 ), the narrator looks back on his colourful life and his rescue as a young boy from a likely death in fascist Romania, by his uncle, a gifted lyric tenor and the novel's eponymous hero.

The name Murasaki is inspired by a poem that the novel's hero, Genji, improvises when contemplating his first meeting with the novel's heroine, the little girl who will grow up to be " Murasaki ".

* George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four contains a brief passage in which the protagonist, Winston Smith, a worker at the propaganda-producing Ministry of Truth, creates a fictitious hero " Comrade Ogilvy ", a man dedicated to Oceania ( the novel's totalitarian régime ) who " dies " in the line of duty.

The novel's hero vanishes into the Brazilian jungle and is held prisoner there.

After some years, Landor discovered in a fascicle of Critica, the journal edited by Benedetto Croce, some extracts of Annunzio's latest novel Forse che sì, forse che no, plagiarized from Landor's travels in the Philippines, in Asia and in Africa, which the novel's hero, an aviator explorer, recounted in the first person.

Pope's version ended with the novel's hero, Frank Owen, who taught that " money was the cause of poverty ", contemplating suicide.

; Sumner Kagan: The novel's hero, an overweight rebellious young man from a dysfunctional single-parent family.

The novel's hero is Bert Smallways, a forward-thinking young man, a " kind of bicycle engineer of the let's-have-a-look-at-it and enamel chipping variety.

The United States ' occupation of Haiti, attempts by whites to suppress jazz music, and the widespread belief that president Warren Harding had black ancestry are mingled with a plot in which the novel's hero, an elderly Harlem houngan named PaPa LaBas, searches for a mysterious book that has disappeared with black militant Abdul Sufi Hamid ( whose name reflects that of the Harlem streetcorner radical preacher Sufi Abdul Hamid, a. k. a. Eugene Brown, an early black convert to Islam ), as a group of radicals plans to return museum treasures looted from ancient Egypt to Africa, and the Atonists within the Wallflower Order are trying to locate and train the perfect " Talking Android ," a black man who will renounce African American culture in favor of European American culture.

" Alex's friends (" droogs " in the novel's Anglo-Russian slang, Nadsat ) are: Dim, a slow-witted bruiser who is the gang's muscle ; Georgie, an ambitious second-in-command ; and Pete, who mostly plays along as the droogs indulge their taste for ultra-violence.

In a metafictional touch, the husband is a writer working on a manuscript called " A Clockwork Orange ," and Alex contemptuously reads out a paragraph that states the novel's main theme before shredding the manuscript.

The song is a sorrowful rendition of the novel's story (" It's gone all quiet on the Western Front / Male Angels sigh / ghosts in a flooded trench / As Germany dies ").

The worldwide reality television show Big Brother is based on the novel's concept of people being under constant surveillance.

The novel's structure is in episodic form.

* In his novel Ulysses, James Joyce mentions the bird while the novel's main character is drifting into sleep.

The novel's heroine, Scarlett O ' Hara, charming though not beautiful, is a southern belle.

Scarlett fails to understand what love is until the novel's end.

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus ", in reference to the novel's themes of the over-reaching of modern man into dangerous areas of knowledge.

Heinlein reveals near the end of Starship Troopers that the novel's protagonist and narrator, Johnny Rico, the formerly disaffected scion of a wealthy family, is Filipino, actually named " Juancita Rico " and speaks Tagalog in addition to English.

Later still, T. H. White featured Robin and his band in The Sword in the Stone – anachronistically, since the novel's chief theme is the childhood of King Arthur.

The self-titled first season of the anime is a derivative of the light novel's first three volumes.

Years later, Rod is briefly depicted accomplishing his heart's desire ; the novel's ending finds him preparing to lead a formal colonization party to another planet.

Also, together with the adjective ağır, which means " heavy " or " slow " in Turkish, Roman is the designation for a special kind of street music, played by some of the novel's protagonists.

In one of his novels, entitled Invitatie la vals, referring to Carl Maria von Weber's " Invitation to the Dance " ( later orchestrated by Berlioz ), a comparison is made between the novel's main character and Manon Lescaut.

At the novel's beginning, Becky Sharp is a bright girl with an eye to improving her lot through marrying up the social scale ; though she is thoroughly unsentimental, she is nonetheless portrayed as being a good friend to Amelia.

By novel's end she is implied to have become an adulteress and a murderess.

Richard Adams quotes a portion of the novel's last sentence for the epigraph to Chapter 50 in his Watership Down ; the reference to the General is felicitous, as the villain in Watership Down is also a General.

" The phrase is used again in the novel's last sentence: " How green was my Valley then, and the Valley of them that have gone.

Almásy is also at the center of one of the novel's love stories.

Although the novel's fantasy elements ( voodoo and black magic, tarot readings and precognition, ghosts and mysticism ) are secondary to the brutal murder that is the focus of the plot, it is set in the same milieu as Asprin's Griffen McCandles novels ( Dragons series ), Dragons Luck and Dragons Wild.

Philip Roth titled the second chapter of his novel " The Ghost Writer " Nathan Dedalus, after the novel's young protagonist Nathan Zuckerman.

The world's most talented children, including the novel's protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are taken at a very young age to a training center known as the Battle School.

* Uriah Heep – The main antagonist of the novel's second half, Heep is a wicked young man who serves first as secretary, and then as partner to Mr. Wickfield.

* The Armourer's House by Rosemary Sutcliff includes a telling of the Tam Lin tale, which parallels the novel's theme of a young girl struggling to obtain her dreams.

From another point of view, the novel's plot is another variation of a conventional nineteenth-century theme: an innocent young provincial comes to seek his fortune in the capital, where he succumbs to corruption, and loses all traces of his former freshness and purity.

The source novel's origins lie in a picture Leonard saw in the Detroit News of a beautiful young female federal marshal standing in front of a Miami courthouse with a shotgun resting on her hip.

Although Dr. Watson appears only in the novel's 1912 bookend scenes, a significant sub-plot concerns Holmes ' efforts to ( temporarily ) replace the former with a young Parisian, who, while useful, is not nearly as brave or devoted as Holmes ' usual companion.

The novel's story revolves around Montgomery Brewster, a young man who inherits one million dollars from his rich grandfather.

" The novel concludes with the world on the verge of a long struggle between the " little people " and the Children of the Food, whose ultimate victory is perhaps suggested by the novel's final image: " For one instant son of Cossar shone, looking up fearlessly into the starry deeps, mail-clad, young and strong, resolute and still.

The earliest biographers of Aphra Behn not only accepted the novel's narrator's claims as true, but Charles Gildon even invented a romantic liaison between the author and the title character, while the anonymous Memoirs of Aphra Behn, Written by One of the Fair Sex ( both 1698 ) insisted that the author was too young to be romantically available at the time of the novel's events.

* Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie ( Williams, Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1976 ) uses the lines Cover her face ; mine eyes dazzle ; she died young as the novel's central refrain.

At the novel's start, the unnamed narrator is approached by a young man called Clitophon who is induced to talk of his adventures.

Its young protagonist, Prince Ramses ( who is 22 years old at the novel's opening ), learns that those who would oppose the priesthood are vulnerable to cooptation, seduction, subornation, defamation, intimidation or assassination.

The former priest who is considered by some to be the novel's villain, Cimourdain, purportedly " made a deep impression on a young Georgian seminarian named Dzhugashvili, who was confined to his cell for reading Ninety-Three and later changed his name to Stalin ", according to a biographer of Hugo.

The novel's two main characters are Therese Belivet, a lonely young woman, and Carol Aird, an elegant stranger Therese encounters one day at her temporary job in a New York department store.

The novel's title derives from the name of the protagonist, a young gay man of mixed Chinese and Puerto Rican ancestry who goes by the name Rafael Zhang in non-Chinese contexts and Zhang Zhongshan in Chinese contexts.

To find more food, Dura, together with her young brother Farr, Adda ( the eldest of the Humans and one of the novel's main characters ), Philas ( wife of a man killed during the glitch ; this man was also seeing Dura ), and 6 other adults travel high into the top of the mantle of the star to find food in the forest.