Sentences with phrase «questions about the novel»

As a mother to three young children myself, I couldn't help but catch up with Jessica to ask her some questions about her novel, her family, and her writing journey.

I'm looking forward to answering all those interesting and provocative questions about the novel and the process of writing.

As with any highly anticipated event, the burning question about the novel is, was it worth the wait?

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That said, I'm always hopeful that people know that my novels are about questions from me, not from New Life Church.

The Mailer who can write a sentence like «his eyes were blue like the faded blue of the sky when the sky is white» is about as far as is humanly possible from the Mailer whose political reporting in the early 1960s remains irresistible long after its subjects have faded» and reestablished his literary reputation that had begun to fade with the critical and popular questioning of the novels that followed The Naked and the Dead.

Although generally categorized as a novel for young readers, this Newbery award - winner and science fiction classic, grapple with adult - sized questions about the nature of God and the existence of evil.

Kingsolver's well - crafted novel brings us face to face with vital questions about what it means to proclaim the gospel in a country that is not our home.

And yet the novel that followed The Junkers, Monk Dawson, was about a monk: a simple story of a boy from a school not unlike Ampleforth, who on graduation joins the community, then questions its commitment to educating the sons of the rich, and applies his own idiosyncratic «preferential option for the poor,» providing shelter for a homeless family in the school theater.

During the question - and - answer period one of them asked me about the moral precepts in my stories, and the question alarmed me, because a novel should not be a moral tract, it should be a story.

Some have applauded the book as creating a teaching moment about the contours of Christian history and theology, and thoughtful readers might well be intrigued by complex questions the novel raises about Christian origins.

Serious or comic, historical or contemporary, War and Peace or Lucky Jim, all novels deal with ethical questions» because novels are about human beings making choices that have consequences.

The latest isn't a novel argument about her voting record or personal email server, but instead fundamentally questions her campaign strategy — a strategy that even down - ballot candidates can replicate.

It was in response to a question from reporters about the withholding of those emails with advisers that Ms. Wiley, defending the practice, described the advisers as «agents of the city» — a designation that appeared novel and resulted in days of unfavorable press coverage.

A former official of the New York City medical examiner's office sued the city on Thursday, claiming that she had been forced from her job for raising questions about the office's use of a novel form of DNA testing whose reliability had come under question.

As yet another day goes by with the World Health Organization (WHO) not declaring that the swine flu outbreak is a full - scale pandemic, more questions are surfacing about why this novel H1N1 has not spread as easily in European and Asian communities as it has in the United States, Mexico, and perhaps Canada.

Respondents first read a news article about the novel pears, then completed a questionnaire that included questions about their attitudes toward the pears, what they think their friends and family think about the idea of buying these products, their novelty - seeking tendencies, whether or not they would buy them, and how much they'd pay for them.

A novel Yale study answers age - old questions about how cancers spread by applying tools from evolutionary biology.

Now they have applied this method to answer some fundamental questions about damage repair in E. coli with the potential of developing novel antibiotic drugs.

With the novel genetic access to hippocampal chandelier cells developed in the Taniguchi Lab at MPFI, neuroscientists can begin asking questions about the function of these cells within learning and memory circuits.

Although entrepreneurs can now legally protect any novel plants, animals or microorganisms they invent, the courts have not yet settled many questions about the reach of biotechnology patents

For his novel research using viral infections in bats to help answer questions about how infectious diseases jump between species, Daniel G. Streicker has been named the 2013 Grand Prize winner of the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists.

October 24, 2013 Genetic analysis reveals novel insights into the genetic architecture of obsessive - compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome An international research consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Chicago has answered several questions about the genetic background of obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS), providing the first direct confirmation that both are highly heritable and also revealing major differences between the underlying genetic makeup of the disorders.

The few multiple choice questions that they require have no text limits or requirements that make you have to write a novel about yourself right off the bat.

Shark Dating Simulator XL is a quick - to - play comedy visual novel with colorful cartoon characters and a multiple choice storyline with consequences for I'm going to ask you a few questions about yourself before we start the dating simulator.

James J. Sullos Jr., the President of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and Cathy Wilbanks, the Archivist of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., answered some questions about how Burroughs» novel A Princess of Mars was transformed into the film John Carter.

Before I Go To Sleep is a psychological thriller based on the worldwide best - selling novel about a woman who wakes up every day remembering nothing — the result of a traumatic accident in her past — until one day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

Adapted from a novel, The Wife is about a woman who questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A 10 - episode, intense psychological thriller based on a best - selling novel and brought to life by executive producer and director M. Night Shyamalan, about a Secret Service agent on a mission to find two missing federal agents, whose investigation only turns up more questions.

It's based on the complex 1956 novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, about a self - hating diplomat questioning his sexual desires.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before This movie, based on a popular YA novel, asks the very important question: What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them all at once?

And Slumdog could hardly be more cross-cultural: a romantic adventure set in India, financed in Europe, made by English filmmakers, featuring Muslim characters speaking Hindi, with a climax hinging on the answer to a question about a French novel.

He's got a common touch, no question, something forged in the time he spent rolling up his sleeves, joining labour unions, hitchhiking across the country, and writing vital, committed novels about it all.

After that quote was picked up by news sites, LA Times writer Amy Kaufman tweeted McAdams» full response to the «Doctor Strange» question (h / t to Newsarama for spotting it), which reveals that she definitely knows a thing or three about the world of comics and graphic novels.

Most subversive about Ramin Bahrani's remarkable adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel (previously filmed, less successfully, more than half a century ago by the French filmmaker François Truffaut) is that its oppressed state isn't dystopian but in fact a utopia that questions whether it's oppressed at all.

ABOUT THE RESOURCE: This pack includes ** Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities ** (includes character studies and plot studies), ** Creative Writing Tasks **, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel.

The lesson objective is about themes in the novel as a whole and the starter, questions for each passage and main lesson activity all relate back to the themes.

Also ask students the same question about characters in novels, adults in their lives, or historical figures.

ABOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England's reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: ** Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities ** (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (Sasquatch, bog).

Contents of this guide run as follows: * Visual summary of plot * Storyboard resource for students to then recall the plot and key events from memory * Form and structure comprehension questions * Settings questions * Context (students explore key issues raised in the play such as youth stereotypes, gang culture, growing violence in the age of the internet etc) * Symbols and Motifs - lots of information about symbols and motifs in the play, followed by a revision activity * Key Quotes - Students explore key quotes through analysis of their meaning and significance, quotes are broken down chapter by chapter and provide thematic links etc. * Themes - Students make connections between themes, characters and events in the novel * Characterisation - Students have to complete a character profile for all the main characters using the study tasks provided * Key Terminology - Exploring some key terminology and vocabulary that will deepen their understanding of the play as well as impress examiners.

In my 8th grade English language arts classroom, I often use the Socrative student - response system to ask students multiple - choice or short - answer questions at the beginning of class about the novel they are reading.

A study of 2,140 6th graders using Thinking Reader, a software program designed to improve reading comprehension by asking students computer - adaptive questions about young adult novels, found no effects on reading comprehension (Drummond et al., 2011).

In a blog post up now on the New York Times Learning Network, Facing History and Ourselves Senior Program Associate Laura Tavares pairs an article about the recent report documenting the history of racial lynching in America with an excerpt from Harper Lee's best - selling «To Kill a Mockingbird» in order to situate the novel in its historical context and raise important questions about race, justice, and memory today.

I'd ask questions about where the body was finally buried or embellished on an unwritten scene, but I didn't want rewrite her previous novel without paying respect to her original work.

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

Astrid, the main character in A. S. King's new novel, Ask the Passengers, explores questions about herself, her friends, her family, and her life.

Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an indictment of rape culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest questions about teen girls and sexuality.

When asked why he has chosen to start a series instead of continuing to write stand - alone novels, Rollins says, «For years, readers have contacted me and asked questions about various cast members from my earlier books... I came to realize that I wanted to know those answers, too.

«Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind's two most enduring questions, and the earth - shaking discovery that will answer them,» said his publishers Doubleday in the US and Transworld in the UK, in a note about the novel's plot that is as cryptic as some of the mysteries Langdon has solved in the past.

Like all Shriver's novels, the book poses more questions than answers, but it's not all about issues.

While there is plenty to enjoy in the way of story and characterization, it is perhaps the profound ideas and questions the novel poses about fate and free will that will stay with readers and make The Immortalists one of 2018's most discussed novels.