Which book's main character finds his inner reality?

[conan415]

Hi, this is my first thread here. Nice to meet all u guys!
Please can u guys recommend some books that the main character finds his inner reality at last, like The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies.
I want the books not to be too long to read, cause I am too lazy...
Thanks!!!
In fact it is for my English project. We have to read at least 4 related books to write a 2500 words essay.
So thanks for help!!

:D :banana:

[Capnplank]

I think Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha" might fit in there pretty well.

[Rachy]

How about Life of Pi?? It's kind of like that! The ending kind of makes you make up your own mind!

[Fango]

Define "inner reality" if you may.

[chispa]

Demian ....H Hesse

[mono]

Hello, conan, welcome to the forum! :)
Hmm, yes, the idea of 'inner reality' seems a little vague, but I think I know what you mean. A few suggestions that come to mind:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Women In Love by D.H. Lawrence
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

Long, but worth the read:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

If non-fiction counts:
Anything by Henry David Thoreau.

Good luck!

[subterranean]

Matthew in The Age of Reason by Sartre.

He is forced to reason by things happening around him and realized that he's not simply just living, but a human being who needs/must keep making decision and choices in his entire life.

[conan415]

Thanks for ur supports! I am very touched by u guys! :D The replies will help me a lot, thanks!
I will try to find and read these books. Thanks again! :p

[byquist]

Steinbeck's, The Pearl

[rukhshanda]

hmmmmmmmmmm innerreality ofound by main charcter...
u must read my book.

[Plechazunga]

Almost anything what would fit under "existentialism" (although the word has become so dialuted today) works in the context.

[mono]

Most recently, I found that one of the main characters, Alyosha, in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, would probably fit the category. ;)

[Melancholia]

Almost anything what would fit under "existentialism" (although the word has become so dialuted today) works in the context.

I completely agree as far as the search inner reality you need not look any further than existentialism, one of the most obvious examples of this for me would have to be Thus Spake Zarathustra - Frederich Nietzsche.

Great example of a character truly embracing and understaning his own inner realities as well as placing those realities in the context of our world. Brilliant read.

[Jay T]

For a more recent work I'd recommend Su Tong's My Life as Emperor, for a past work my a master, Mishima Yukio's Confessions of the Mask.

[A Hard Rain]

This Side of Paradise. My pick. It is a little longer then some, but not as difficult as others. Also, it is a good read. It stirs. The whole book is a quest of the protagonist finding his own philosphy or a way to face the struggles of his life. It is still a challenging read though. If you are just trying to do the assignment then this post is null.

[Maida]

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

and it's not too long!

[superunknown]

I would say Raskalnikov in Crime and Punishment.

[kimpossible]

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

and it's not too long!

yeah, really anything by Murakami. The M-kam is G rated

(hard boiled wonderland especially)

[fati]

i think all the characters in Dostoyevky's novels find their inner self in the end. my favourite: Nicolas Stavroghin in The Possessed.

[Inga]

I agree about Dostoevskij, most of his characters find their inner reality.

But isn't it somehow so that a good character has to develop and that many develop in a direction which leads them closer to their inner reality?

[byquist]

Pai, assuming the novel is like the first-rate film, Whale Rider. The blending of the natural and supernatural is not to be matched anywhere, and Pai's self-discovery is rare.

[bazarov]

i think all the characters in Dostoyevky's novels find their inner self in the end. my favourite: Nicolas Stavroghin in The Possessed.
I disagree with you, Stavroghin lost Lisa and finally killed himself, I think Raskolinkov and Alyosha are much better examples. Stavroghin was never really happy and he also ended in simillar way. But that's just my opinion ;)