The Ghost Writer (Philip Roth) analyze Literature & Language Review
The entire paper shouldn't appear any SUMMARY.It should only consists of quote( don't use LONG QUOTES), analyze, and insight.That is, you are writing to the people who already read the book, they don't want read something they already know twice.(summary) They want read something new, what everything illustrates / symbolizes / represents / implies / suggests.(analyze) Agian, AVOID ANY SUMMARY. Just quote ,then analyze.Highly recommend read the sample A paper i uploaded before you start.
Here is the prompt:
Write a 3-4 page paper on Roth's THE GHOST WRITER. You need to say something interesting, something a lazy reader may have missed, when they read the book last night. Do not summarize. Only analyze. Come up with something interesting to say, and then prove it with examples from the text. And don't just supply those examples from the text; analyze them so that a reader truly sees, in a new way, how exactly they prove your interesting points.
Two main subjects we've been dealing with are: Zuckerman's views of women, and his need to break away from his parents / ethnicity. You could deal with either of those topics in your paper, or you could choose another topic.
If you go with Zuckerman's views of women, you could make the argument that, even though it SEEMS he thinks women are second-class citizens, he ACTUALLY respects them and admires them--since he makes Anne Frank the only 'round' character in the book. Then you'd prove that, with examples from the text... Or you could make the argument that, though it SEEMS he makes a round character out of Anne Frank, she's ACTUALLY not round, only flat, because it's all a fantasy that he's concocting in his own brain, so that he can fantasize about, finally, pleasing his long suffering parents... And then you'd prove that, with examples from the text...
Analysis of The Ghost Writer
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Analysis of The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer revolves around the life of a young writer, Nathan Zukerman, who comes from a Jewish family living in the New York neighborhood. The story portrays a young man who is struggling to kick-start his writing career and break away from his parents’ ethnicity. Two ideas are apparent from this novel. The author Philip Roth wants to reveal how one can encounter several hurdles while attempting to break away from family or ethnicity. Also, the author aims at revealing how inferior women are to men and they cannot exist independent of men.
Zukerman views women as inferior to men and individuals who cannot exist independent of men. He portrays women as individuals without souls, but bodies that contort in ways that alternately exasperate and delight the men characters in this novel. Women are banished to activities viewed as less impo...
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