Absurdist fiction

Like any young child growing up fairy tales were everything. They were begged for at night time when sleep was scarce. Fate, a prince, and a princess basically ruled the world of adolescent literature novels. They were a fun way to hear about the mighty knight defeating the dragon to meet the gorgeous princess who was so cruelly locked away. With the thought of telling fairy tales were only for children, film industries are transforming the fairy tale into a realm away from children. While…

When it comes to writing good fiction, the most important factor is characterization. Characterization, compared to developing a plot, is much more difficult for authors. Humans, in nature, are complex creatures.(Characterization) Writers must come up with characters that are unique, but at the same time convincing. If a character is not convincing, the reader will become bored and the story will fail. A convincing character is the readers connection to the story, without one the reader will not…

“Antlers” and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” - Compare/Contrast Rick Bass and Ernest Hemingway are two superb writers who created very different stories that hold the same values. Both stories have varying amounts of similarities and differences, such as motifs and themes, but in the end the pieces ultimately show how isolation and a meaningless storyline can represent something more than what it seems. By including the author 's life experiences and background, the final thoughts about each…

Octavia Butler’s short story, “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” has a fairly long title for being a short story. This story, like most of Butler’s works is one that brings a fictional scenario to life in a grim and dark manner. Octavia Butler is not one to use euphemisms or sensor her work. Her audience is that of an adult who is mature enough to handle the content of her stories. Because of this I thought it would be a good idea to adapt “The Evening and the Morning and the Night”…

As we know, most short stories do not usually tell the audience its actual meaning is. There is not much you can get from just reading the title in most stories, in general. But, as for this short story by Edgar Allen Poe, “A Tell-Tale heart”, you can actually find pretty good understanding for the short story before actually reading it. The title does not give us much information unless you look at the definitions of the title itself. A tell-tale is something that is portraying or revealing…

Dreams, are they fantasy or a longing for something once forgotten? For Douglas Q, his dreams seemed all too real to be anything more than a past life. The action packed movie Total Recall and the short story “We can Remember it for you Wholesale” have many similarities and differences throughout one another. The greatest differences being in the characters, settings, and plot. The short story introduces us to Doug Quail, Kirsten, Dr. McClane, and Interplan. Doug Quail, the main character,…

Ongoing debates regarding the quality of a movie compared to the narrative it is based upon are present in everyday life. Some people believe that the narrative always has a greater appeal than the movie as a result of the significant amount of detail available that may be insufficient in the movie. Others argue that movies are more intriguing than the narrative due to the visual effects that they may not be able to conceptualize while reading. Such discussion pertains to the movie Stand by Me…

Throughout reading The Things They Carried, my understanding of particular literary theories has vastly increased. The main lenses in which my group used to interpret the novel was feminist, psychoanalytical, and postmodernism. During the first block, it was more difficult to determine which lens to look through, and a lot of thought had to be put in when reading the block as a whole. But, as the book progressed, I began to pick up on particular instances and immediately recognized which…

The Comradtic Mechanism “Summer Solstice, New York City” by Sharon Olds; is a short poem about the longest day of the year, a day when one person tries to end his own life and the police who work to save him. Your life. Possessive. It is your life, no one else. People like to think and speak in these terms; to make things belong to them, or to make themselves feel like they do. When people think about how to handle a problem that is effecting them, they like to think is a small closed off space.…

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” This quote is attributed to Mark Twain, but isn’t exactly his. Regardless of who said it in the first place, the quote tells us that even if one is missing one of their five senses, they can still sense the power of kindness. In the novel Unwind written by Neal Shusterman, many characters commit acts of kindness that shift the course of the plot in impactful ways. In real life there are individuals who make decisions and…