Sentences with phrase «end of the novel»

The first mark of this new community is the brotherhood of boys that is mentioned at the very end of the novel, banding together in loyalty to the memory of Ilyusha (pp. 910 - 13).

That said, I suspect people are going to complain about the ambiguous ending of the novel I'm finishing off at the moment, but it's the one I want so they'll have to live with it.

And while the main villain is apparent early on, the plot twists are creative and will keep readers guessing about the identity of the bad guy's accomplice until the very end of the novel.

One might well ask: What is the point of all of these distressing details when the end of the novel will, in most cases, be a sentimentalized scene of happy family life?

Near the end of the novel he is nearly lost in the private «high» of his own sense of infinity.

Near the end of the novel, still seething with resentment years later (Mantel's invention), the boy begs Cromwell to take him along to see More condemned.

But by the end of the novel one begins to see that perhaps they are not whistling in the dark.

Marriage is often an end (the end of the novel), and not a transition to a new beginning.

At the end of the novel, he is saved from suicide by a coincidence — or is it by the grace of God acting through his guardian angel?

But a house so improved is destined to fall, and Sotherton will fall resoundingly before the end of the novel.

There is a resurrection theme, but it has a pantheistic and humanistic tinge, as does the resurrection language at the end of the novel.

Rodrigues interprets God's silence as His lack of presence; but it is not until the Lord speaks directly to Rodrigues at the end of the novel that he is inclined to believe otherwise.

When she encounters Dalgleish near the end of the novel, Cordelia is able to bend the letter of the law to be merciful in a way that Adam can not.

They become apparent when Theo talks about his mother's «visitation» to him in dreams, when Hobie speaks affectionately of the Catholic Church and the Jesuit priest who protected him as a youth, when the otherwise cynical Boris admits to being moved to tears by Biblical stories, and again when Theo opens up to the higher purpose in life, despite all its difficulties and insanities, toward the end of the novel.

Yet by the time I reach the end of the novel I am glad I took the time to explore them.

Martel should have stuck to the metaphoric approach he takes to religion at the end of the novel's second section, when Pi finally reaches land.

At the end of the novel Rose, comforted by the thought that Pinkie's love for her may have saved him, is on her way to play the recording and to discover the quality of that love.

(Thomas Merton argued, somewhat fancifully, that the failure of the priest - chaplain to convert the imprisoned Meursault at the end of the novel was the kind of thing Vatican II wanted us to look at and learn from in the modern world.)

By the end of the novel, after more than 500 pages of calumny against the Catholic Church, the reader learns that «both the Vatican and Opus Dei... [turn] out to be completely innocent» (559).

Using genetic data from modern animals to figure out what went on in the past is like flipping to the end of a novel and reading only the ending; it shows how things ended up but doesn't indicate how the story started or unfolded.

In the book, Effie is in the Capitol and only reappears at the end of the novel.

When author David Morrell wrote «First Blood» in 1972, he killed off lead character John Rambo at the end of the novel.

Kurt Corbain's suicide plays a large part in the novel and the end of the novel focuses on secondary characters, characters you have not even met.

All of her experiences helped her to become the woman she is at the end of the novel.

At the end of the novel, Gertie tells Varya about the beauty and freedom in uncertainty, questioning why her children believed the fortune teller.

It's not unreasonable to employ this technique to convey realistic speech, but it's used so frequently, I found it a bit grating by the end of the novel.

«By the end of the novel, the particulars of Liam's life really haven't changed that much, but he is utterly transformed.

Do you agree with her assertion at the end of the novel that she's better off not knowing whether Ihsan was using her for information?

I think it would have been great if the author had included the letter at the end of the novel, since it would have explained so much.

Thomas's connection to the ocean seems to come to a head at the end of the novel, at once bringing about great endings and new beginnings.

Discuss the ending of the novel.

- Kirkus «Battered, weathered, at the end of the novel [love] comes cresting over the hill, a herald of relief.

What about seeing the painting at the end of the novel?

I was surprised he came to her in the end of the novel but he was not my favorite character in the book

Near the end of the novel, Eleanora tells Willie that she could never be with him regardless of her marriage, and describes Khaled as «a steadying force.

Toward the end of the novel, the author cites T.H. Lawrence: «We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.»

Towards the end of the novel, Rehana feels that she belongs to Bangaldesh, but it is the love for her children that ultimately binds her to the country.

Did your reading of Kline's Author's Note at the end of the novel change the way you thought about any aspect of the book?

Adding bonus content such as short stories to the end of novels (especially those in Kindle Unlimited) rather than selling them as 99 - cent stand - alones.

At the end of the novel, as Zack is being brought back from the desert, he is described as «a snake shedding its skin,» like «an insect in the chrysalis stage just before it sprouts wings and flies away.»

For example, when Damien is born, Granny Monroe protests the choice of his name by saying: «He'll turn into a gayboy if you're not careful,» and by the end of the novel we're aware that Damien does, in fact, grow up to be a gay man.

Near the end of the novel, Roth thinks to himself, «I had learned everything and understood nothing» [p. 242].

At the end of the novel, Jacob exclaims, «So what if I'm ninety - three?

By the end of the novel, I came to better understand Arthur and Elizabeth.

How believable and satisfactory is Cecil's resurfacing at the end of the novel?

By the end of the novel, which side of the argument has «won» — Nature or Nurture?

Are you satisfied with the ending of the novel?

Near the end of the novel, one character offers Cora perhaps the most hopeful statement in the book, adopting the outlook that whites and blacks hold the keys to create and define their own future in this young, newly forming nation: «We are Africans in America,» he tells her.