can someone relate this qoute to list of books- please help!!!?

Question

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts" -Arnold bennett

1. Animal Farm
2. Night
3. The Contender
4. Carrie

Answer 1

I don't believe #1 or #4, are in the running, and #2 is very close. However, I pick #3 (The Contender). Good Luck.

1. ANIMAL FARM:
The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm.

2. NIGHT:
In Nobel, Laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir "Night", a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves.

3. THE CONTENDER:
Alfred's life is going nowhere fast. He's a high-school dropout working at a grocery store. His best friend is drifting behind a haze of drugs and violence, and now some street punks are harassing him for something he didn't do. Feeling powerless & afraid, Alfred gathers up the courage to visit Donatelli's Gym, the neighborhood's boxing club. He wants to be a champion, on the streets and in his own life. Alfred doesn't quite understand when Mr. Donatelli tells him, "It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward." In the end, he learns that a winner isn't necessarily the one standing when the fight is over. Teens and adults alike will be knocked out by this powerful story of how a frightened boy becomes a man. "A 17-year-old Harlem boy struggles to become a champion boxer in this excellent novel [recommended] for use in the early phases of secondary school literature study."

4. CARRIE:
Carrie White, menaced by bullies at school & her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine.
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Personally, I Like This Book:
THE OLD WIVES' TALE: First published in 1908, affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines shy sisters, retiring Constance & defiant, romantic Sophia, over the course of nearly 1/2 a century. Bennett traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women. The setting moves from the Five Towns of Staffordshire to exotic and cosmopolitan Paris, while the action moves from the subdued domestic routine of the Baines household to the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

Answer 2

Sorry not sure how it relates to the last two, but for Orwell's Animal Farm, it can be seen when the animals try and change their ruling for the better. However eventually powers become ill-balanced because of disatifisfaction of Squealer.
In Wiesel's Night, there are actually two changes: the first is the transfer of the Jewish population into the concentration camp, which is clearly a negative change that is accompanied by much discomforts and the infamous and numerous deaths. The second is the closing of these camps by the Allied forces, which would be accompanied by the discomfort of the memories. Mr. Wiesel, by writing this book, wants to emphasize to younger future generations the importance of these memories a part of learning both the past and the reality of intolerance, which in turn, would dictate a lesson of tolerance.

Answer 3

" ... everything happening around him is a veiled reference to his personality and existence. He excludes real people from the conspiracy - because he considers himself to be so much more intelligent than other men. Phenomenal nature shadows him wherever he goes. Clouds in the staring sky transmit to one another, by means of slow signs, incredibly detailed information regarding him. His inmost thoughts are discussed at nightfall, in manual alphabet, by darkly gesticulating trees. Pebbles or stains or sun flecks form patterns representing in some awful way messages which he must intercept. Everything is a cipher and of everything he is the theme. Some of the spies are detached observers, such are glass surfaces and still pools; others, such as coats in store windows, are prejudiced witnesses, lynchers at heart; others again (running water, storms) are hysterical to the point of insanity, have a distorted opinion of him and grotesquely misinterpret his actions. He must be always on his guard and devote every minute and module of life to the decoding of the undulation of things. The very air he exhales is indexed and filed away. If only the interest he provokes were limited to his immediate surroundings - but alas it is not! With distance the to rents of wild scandal increase in volume and volubility. The silhouettes of his blood corpuscles, magnified a million times, flit over vast plains; and still farther, great mountains of unbearable solidity and height sum up in terms of granite and groaning firs the ultimate truth of his being. " Nabokov 'Signs and Symbols' From a short story, but can there be any doubt Nabokov is THE Master Prose Stylist of the 20th Century?

Answer 4

I've only read #1, but if I remember correctly, it fits pretty good. It was a picture of communism I think, and trying to change the way things ran on the farm.