{"id":8373,"date":"2020-01-10T12:05:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/infographics\/?p=8373"},"modified":"2020-01-13T04:59:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T04:59:11","slug":"the-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/infographics\/the-american\/","title":{"rendered":"The American"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cHe was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>About the Author<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Henry James was an American-British author and is one of the greatest English novelists. He has written novels on social and marital interplay \u00e9migr\u00e9 Americans, English people, and continental Europeans. Other than &#8216;The American,&#8217; some of his great works are &#8211; The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, Daisy Miller, and The Wings of the Dove. He was a prominent social theorist and well known for writing short stories in America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About the Novel<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This novel is about a man named Christopher Newman, who came to the Louvre in search of a wife. Somehow Newman met with a widow lady Claire de Cintre and proposed her for marriage. She did not accept it at first, but she took the second proposal. Yet, at the end of the story, Claire de Cintre again resolved never to marry and presented her wish to become a Carmelite nun. To this, he planned to take revenge from Claire\u2019s mother as he thought her mother is forcing her not to marry him. But due to his honesty, he dropped his evil plan of revenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Genre: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Novel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tone: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Satirical<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Type:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fiction<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Year of publication:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 1877<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Significant Characters<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Christopher Newman:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He is the hero of the novel. He is a protagonist and an excellent American. He forced to earn at a very young age. He is honest and challenging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Claire de Bellegarde:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The author described her as an exquisite, cultured, and beautiful lady. She twenty-eight-year-old widow. Though Claire is a strong woman, she cannot fight for her happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mrs. Catherine Bread:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> She is living in London as Lady Atheling. She helped to raise Valentine and Claire. Mrs. Bread is a decent, honest, and trustworthy woman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Valentin de Bellegarde:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He is the younger son of the Marquis and Marquise and Christopher\u2019s friend. He is a French aristocrat. He is charismatic and entertaining.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Noemie Nioche: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he is charming, fearless, and free-spirited. He is a Parisian whose painting Newman agrees to buy. Noemie habitually humiliates his father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Urbain de Bellegarde:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> he is the older son of Marquise and Marquis. He is ambitious and temperamental. He has inherited Marquise\u2019s traits.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Marquise de Bellegarde:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> She is the mother of Valentin, Claire, and Urbain. She is the secret killer in the novel.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Themes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appearances- Christopher Newman is searching a beautiful wife at Louvre<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Betrayal- Newman was utterly heartbroken when Claire\u2019s family backstabbed him<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pride- Bellegarde\u2019s family take great pains to conceal their pride<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revenge- It dominates the second half of the story as Newman tried to take revenge from Bellegarde<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suffering- Ms. Claire has no control over her life choices. Her love created complications that lead to pain.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.\u201d &nbsp; About the Author Henry James was an American-British author and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The American | Novel by Henry James<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The American is a novel written by Henry James. In 1876, Henry published it as a book. 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