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I recently posted a question asking which book you would recommend that i read and study for my senior paper. i have narrowed it down some but would still appreciate feedback! here is what i have it narrowed down to:

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Obasan - Joy Kogawa
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

any suggestions on which i should pick?
I have to study one of these books over the next three months and then write a term paper about it.

Personally, I’d be more inclined to go for the Kite Runner. It’s a brilliant book and probably the one out of the list that most relates to current events and contemporary society. Babbitt is wonderful for its satire of American Culture though, and is a strong contender.

You’d probably find lots of stuff to write about for these two, and could add your own perspective on it

I’ve always avoided the Bronte Sisters like the plague. It may just be a male thing but I’ve never been able to tolerate their writing. I can read Austen even if I don’t particularly like it.

I have to write my senior paper on a book that I study in detail over the next three or so months. Therefore, I want the book to have a lot of substance that I can work with in my paper. We have to choose off a list, and these are the ones that looked interesting to me:

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The Kite Runner - Hermann Hesse
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
Obasan - Joy Kogawa
Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
Babbit - Sinclair Lewis
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
Going After Cacciato - Tim O’Brien
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
You Can’t Go Home Again - Thomas Wolfe

Which book(s) would you recommend??? I would REALLLYYY appreciate your feedback, this will be a huge part of my grade! Thanks!

JANE EYRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHARLOTTE BRONTE. JUST FINISHED IT THIS SEMESTER. ITS GREAT! IT KEEPS FOR ATTENTION, IT DOESNT DRAG ON AND IT JUST A GREAT BOOK.

What morel dilemma or issue does Naomi face?

This website should help you with the information on what Naomi faced. http://www.bookrags.com/Obasan

Anybody knows what this poem is about…. some explanation… meanings… themes… stuff like that?

What world issues were taking place at the time she wrote this poem?

thanks,

Joy Kogawa is a Canadian with a Japanese family. Because she has a Japanese family, she thinks she ought to have an opinion about Hiroshima. Especially because there is a Cold War going on (the context of this poem). She doesn’t really have an opinion about Hiroshima (Hiroshima is a long way from Canada), so instead she just jots down some things she saw on a visit to the atomic bomb memorial building. She hopes we will believe this is poetry.

The imagery, repetition and rime serve only the purpose of saying: ‘Hey, man, this is a poem! Cut it some slack, won’t you?’

There are also a few other poetic devices here, including the rhetorical question:

"They? Us?"

by which Joy Kogawa means that she doesn’t know whether she is a ‘they’ (Japanese) or an ‘us’ (American).

Somebody should tell her. She isn’t a Japanese or an American; she is from Canada.

flowers for algernon……..d keys
the great gatsby……f fitzgerald
heart of darkness………j conrad
i know why a caged bird sings……….maye angelou
obsan…joy kogawa
tess of the d’Urbervilles………t hardy
the handmaids tale……..m.atwood
jane eyre……c. bronte
the red badge of courage……s.crane
the sound and the fury….w faulkner
the autobiography of miss jane pittman……….e gaines
beloved……toni morrison
brave new world…..a.huxly
one day in the life of denisavich……a solzhenisyn
the stone angel……..m. laurence
their eyes watching god….z.hursten

Flowers for Algernon.

i have to pich from these…i like animals..and i like action-ie stuff and would like a interresting book that would be hard to but down..a simple book..what ones the best?

flowers for algernon……..d keys
the great gatsby……f fitzgerald
heart of darkness………j conrad
i know why a caged bird sings……….maye angelou
obsan…joy kogawa
tess of the d’Urbervilles………t hardy
the handmaids tale……..m.atwood
jane eyre……c. bronte
the red badge of courage……s.crane
the sound and the fury….w faulkner
the autobiography of miss jane pittman……….e gaines
beloved……toni morrison
brave new world…..a.huxly
one day in the life of denisavich……a solzhenisyn
the stone angel……..m. laurence
their eyes watching god….z.hursten

Well of course, I’d just have to say my favourites, but obviously, it depends on your own opinion!!!

The Great Gatsby was amazing, i seriously recommend that.
Tess of the d’Urbervilles was very very good, but I still prefer Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Still, very good book.
And Jane Eyre, was also one of my favourite books of all time.
I don’t know which year, or grade you’re in, but I think Jane Eyre is one most people would have heard of, and might just be a safe bet.

For school i need to read one of the following books

-Obasan, Joy Kogawa
-Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
-Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella
-Terminal, Robin Cook
-Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
-The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
-The Eagle Has Landed, Jack Higgins
-The Once and Future King, T.H. White

I’m not too big on reading and I have a month to read one of these books and Mythology by Edith Hamilton for my summer reading. (My summer has been really hectic.) Can anyone gives me their opinions on some of these books?

I would recommend The Count of Monte Cristo. you can’t go wrong with
a classic. I’ve read a few books by Robin Cook, including Terminal.
It’s good but quickly forgotten.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Antigone by Sophocles
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Candide by Voltair
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Light in August by William Faulkner
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Native Son by Richard Wright
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albe
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Huckleberry Finn, but I have an annotated version, which is just snapping and helps me understand things better

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Antigone by Sophocles
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Candide by Voltair
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Light in August by William Faulkner
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Native Son by Richard Wright
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albe
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Huckleberry Finn, but I have an annotated version, which is just snapping and helps me understand things better

Here is a 10th grade summer reading list, everybody. Can someone give me their recommendation for which books I should or shouldn’t read for summer reading this year?
I have to read 2 of the following books:

Born Confused—Tanuja Desai Hidier
Copper Sun—Sharon Draper
Ender’s Game—Orson Card
Feed–M.T. Anderson
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence— Doris Pilkington
Into The Wild—Jon Krakauer
My Sister’s Keeper—Jodi Picoult
Never Let Me Go—Kazu Ishiguru
Obasan—Joy Kogawa
Riding the Bus with My Sister— Rachel Simon
Shattering Glass—Gail Giles
Slam—Walter Dean Myers
Song of Solomon—Toni Morrison
The Color of Water––James McBride
The Namesake—Jhumpa Lahiri

And also for my own entertainment, does anybody have a good book recommendation in general?

You can’t go wrong with Orson Scott Card, although if you hate scifi, disregard that recommendation. I’ve heard Toni Morrison is good, but Song of Solomon was an Oprah book club book (those are usually not so great, but it’ll be easy to find a used copy). Into the Wild is super popular, and supposed to be really good (we can’t keep a copy in at the used bookstore I work at). Jodi Picoult, although not my bag, is also very popular, and likely an easy read.
Entertainment book: Have you read Twilight by Stephanie Meyer yet?