Additional speculation from Douglas Kellner of UCLA argued that Big Brother represents Joseph Stalin and that the novel portrayed life under totalitarianism.

The Eye in the Pyramid refers to the Eye of Providence, which in the novel represents particularly the Bavarian Illuminati, and makes a number of appearances ( for example, as an altar and a tattoo ).

The novel represents a different era and is a project that Gautier had wanted to complete earlier in this youth.

" The result is a novel that satirically represents the religious activity of America in evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s toward it.

As a novel, it represents a departure from her earlier excursions into light comedy, being the story of four office workers on the verge of retirement.

The Poet, a cryptic figure in the novel, represents some hidden spirit of introverted aestheticism in the castle ; he remains in the shadows.

In the history of crime fiction, he represents a transition from Gothic novel villains of the 19th century to modern-day serial killers.

* In her novel Broderie Anglaise ( 1953 ), Violet Trefusis represents her lesbian affair with Vita Sackville-West and Vita's with Virginia Woolf in the form of a heterosexual romance.

Barbara Vine's novel The Chimney Sweeper's Boy has as a central plot device a moth of that name, more formally identified as Epichnopterix plumella, which represents the main character's transformation and identity.

* Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift has the protagonist, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, study Chernyshevsky and write the critical biography The Life of Chernychevski which represents Chapter Four of the novel.

For related reasons, terahertz radiation also represents the region in which the generation and modulation of coherent electromagnetic signals ceases to be possible by the conventional means used to generate most coherent radiowaves and microwaves, and requires new devices and techniques, many of which are novel.

It was originally published in Interzone in 1993 and represents a small, but integral part of the novel, Ring.

Because of its extensible design and graphical interface ( which in a novel way represents the program structure and the GUI as presented to the user simultaneously ), Max has been described as the lingua franca for developing interactive music performance software.

The Temple of the Great Clockmaker, in the novel The Case Of The Dead Certainty by Kel Richards, is a temple which represents deism.

Likewise Mahfouz sees the development of society has an important influence on the role of women, so he represents the traditional, obedient women who do not go to school such as Amina, Abd al-Jawad's wife, and her daughters in the first novel, women as students in the university such as Aida, Kamal's beloved, in the second novel, and women as students in the university, members of the Marxist party and editors of the journal of the party in the third novel.

This connection between land and people is very much a part of naturalism ; the environment is a powerful shaper of man's fate, and the novel represents this relationship by constantly describing the power and cruelty of Starkfield's winter.

Historians have argued over whether Karaism has a direct connection to anti-Rabbinic sects and views, such as those of the Sadducees, dating back to the end of the Second Temple period ( 70 CE ), or whether Karaism represents a novel emergence of similar views.

Melquíades, the keeper of the historical archive in the novel, represents both the whimsical and the literary.

First shown at documenta 11, After “ Invisible Man ” by Ralph Ellison, the Preface ( 1999 – 2001 ) represents a well-known scene from Ellison ’ s classic novel.

Since postmodernism represents a decentered concept of the universe in which individual works are not isolated creations, much of the focus in the study of postmodern literature is on intertextuality: the relationship between one text ( a novel for example ) and another or one text within the interwoven fabric of literary history.

The postmodern position is that the style of a novel must be appropriate to what it depicts and represents, and points back to such examples in previous ages as Gargantua by François Rabelais and the Odyssey of Homer, which Nancy Felson hails as the exemplar of the polytropic audience and its engagement with a work.

The novel tells the history of Hawaiian Islands from the creation of the isles to the time they became a state of the U. S. A. through viewpoints of selected people who represent their ethnic and cultural groups in the story ( e. g. the Kee family represents the viewpoint of Chinese-Hawaiians ).

Critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest adaptation of the novel and remarked on Dunst's performance, " The perfect contrast to take-charge Jo comes from Kirsten Dunst's scene-stealing Amy, whose vanity and twinkling mischief make so much more sense coming from an 11-year-old vixen than they did from grown-up Joan Bennett in 1933.

" Realism is nothing if not urban ", notes critic Peter Brooks ; the scene of a young man coming into the city to find his fortune is ubiquitous in the realist novel, and appears repeatedly in Balzac's works, such as Illusions Perdues.

Just before coming of age, Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle.

While the series ' first book consisted of a coming of age process through an arduous voyage which would ultimately lead to Ged confronting his own issues, The Tombs Of Atuan works in a much more restricted, confined space, which reflects itself in the narrative's style and progression, Tenar's tale being more intimate and less epically inclined than the previous novel.

* Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy and soon to be coming Bloodlines ( Richelle Mead novel ) series

One of the book's early champions was Thornton Wilder, who wrote to Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in August 1939, a few months after the book's publication: " One of my absorptions [...] has been James Joyce's new novel, digging out its buried keys and resolving that unbroken chain of erudite puzzles and finally coming on lots of wit, and lots of beautiful things has been my midnight recuperation.

Other People: A Mystery Story ( 1981 ), about a young woman coming out of a coma, was a transitional novel in that it was the first of Amis's to show authorial intervention in the narrative voice, and highly artificed language in the heroine's descriptions of everyday objects, which was said to be influenced by his contemporary Craig Raine's " Martian " school of poetry.

In the process of coming up with the title of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald had considered several titles for his book including " Trimalchio " and " Trimalchio in West Egg ;" Fitzgerald characterizes Gatsby as Trimalchio in the novel, notably in the first paragraph of Chapter VII: " It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night — and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.

Based on the novel of the same name by Rumer Godden, the film is both a meditation on human beings ' relationship with nature and a coming of age story of three young girls in colonial India.

However, while Hayy lives alone with animals on the desert island for the rest of the story in Philosophus Autodidactus, the story of Kamil extends beyond the desert island setting in Theologus Autodidactus, developing into the earliest known coming of age plot and eventually becoming the first example of a science fiction novel.

German writer August Wilhelm Otto Niemann had used the word in the title of his anti-British novel Der Weltkrieg: Deutsche Träume (" The World War: German Dreams ") as early as 1904, published in English as The coming conquest of England.

The character Sol Weintraub analyses the Binding often during the novel, coming to the conclusion that it is Abraham who is testing God, and God is serious about killing an innocent child for him, he would not be worthy to be followed or obeyed.

The second verse of the Simon and Garfunkel song " The Sound of Silence " bears an uncanny resemblance to an early scene in the novel, where the protagonist walks the streets alone ; the description in the song echoes details in the novel, including coming upon a brightly-lit sign.

Columbia continued to produce 40-plus pictures a year, offering productions that often broke ground and kept audiences coming to theaters such as its adaptation of the controversial James Jones novel, From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) with William Holden and Alec Guinness.

But for some critics it is a mistake to view The Member of the Wedding as simply a coming of age novel — a " sweet momentary illumination of adolescence before the disillusion of adulthood ," as it is sometimes regarded, or as Patricia Yaeger puts it, " an economical way of learning about the pangs of growing up.

The term was previously used in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954 novel The Lord of the Rings to refer to Hobbits in their twenties: "... tweens as Hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and the coming of age at thirty-three.

The novel is a detailed record of his therapy and his coming to understand his own life.

* Interview with Robert Goddard about the novel " Long time coming " at www. thecrimehouse. com.

Much of the novel focuses on the pursuit of this line of enquiry, with the passengers coming under suspicion in turn.

In literature, a novel which deals with coming of age is called a bildungsroman.

The novel takes the form of a gradual revelation illuminating both Iris ' youth and her old age before coming to the pivotal events of her and Laura's lives around the time of the Second World War.

The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1981 coming of age novel by John Irving and his fifth published novel.