American science fiction writers

Peer Response Questions Overview Questions: 1) He uses "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang to analyze the idea of "Free Will". 2) The author analyzes the genre, context, and message. Genre: Science fictions contribution towards the idea of free will. Context: Provides different events where humans act belligerently, knowing the potential repercussions. Message: Analyzes the authors message, which is humans act upon free will. Audience: N/A 3) Thesis: Human Action is not dominated by our…

O Henry was a very famous short story writer back in the 18-1900’s. His stories were known for the surprise endings. Recently I was assigned an unusual but very interesting assignment in my English class: to take a look at 2 of his short stories ‘The Gift Of The Magi’, and ‘The Last Leaf’, and do a compare and contrast essay also using 3 literary devices. Professor taught us to be very careful with how you write this essay, so after spending hours reading the short stories over, I’ve come up…

book Fahrenheit 451 brings to the palate of the reader a very sobering forecast of humanity, that has only become closer to becoming a reality since the date of the book’s composition. As Fahrenheit 451 has aged, the story has gone from a bleak science fiction piece to a near prophetic manual. Through a setting based in a near dystopian future, such themes as societal ignorance, human perseverance, and censorship became the pillars of the book Fahrenheit 451 that made the book so impactful.…

Many authors attempt the feat of creating a novel that blurs the lines of reality and fantasy but few achieve it. Writer Martel perfectly executes this feat in his novel The life of Pi. To convey this world to the readers along with its nature, Martel uses Dualism, realism, anthropomorphism, and Zoomorphism. By using these devises he is able to relay this fantastical world in a real light that leaves the reader questioning where does reality end and the fantasy begin. Martel uses the Dualism…

Writer John Green, known for composing hit novels, explains why the young adult fiction genre is still very well needed; as well as how it will adapt in the future in his article “Does YA Mean Anything Anymore?: Genre in a Digitized World”. Throughout the text, he hits on multiple important topics such as worry, empathy, the inner darkness, meaninglessness, morality and genre; all setting up for or proving his point on YA’s purpose. Green discusses how a good book of the YA genre helps plenty…

In Story of Your Life, the author Ted Chiang utilizes logos and pathos to emphasize that science fiction not only tells an imaginary story but also introduces a different thinking model and interconnects science genre with philosophy. As a primary writing strategy, logos convinces readers by the use of logic and reasons, or to be more precise, by analyzing a physical problem, a linguistic discovery and free will theory in Chiang’s story. Different from the logical proof, pathos leans to be the…

How does the writer make the ending so dramatically effective? - The plight of Madame Loisel  (How does she perceive her life to be? Draw upon examples here!)  (What does her life become? Why is this ironic?) - The relationship between Madame + Monsieur  (Why does he seem so pleased with himself for the Party invitation?)  (He uses all his money not just to help buy her an outfit but also to buy a real diamond necklace)  (Why is he so content in life?) - Symbolism of the necklace  (How…

Writers use elements of writing to help create the reason behind their stories. William Faulkner and Tom Whitecloud are both writers who expressed their stories using plot and structure. Plot is the ideas or reasons as to why certain things happen in a story, elements of plot help the reader understand the story. For example, the suspense, conflict, exposition, rising action, crisis, resolution etc. of the story. Whereas structure, on the other hand, is the way the writer arranges the story’s…

1. INTRODUCTION THE CONCEPT OF DYSTOPIA: Dystopia (Greek word dys meaning bad and topos meaning place) or alternatively, cacotopia,1 can be defined as an imagined world in which the society is oppressed and an illusion of a perfect society is maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral or totalitarian control.2 It is a word coined by British philosopher John Stuart Mill. In the dystopian society freedom of thought, action and association (as propounded by Mill) are…

A story about luck, friendship, brotherhood, love, adventure and fate, Slumdog Millionaire is an excellent portrayal of Mark Twain’s famous quote: “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Though the movie is not completely based on a true story, some of the key plots are based on and were inspired from real life events, meaning that these things did and do happen to real people. The movie has marvelously captured human emotions as the protagonist rides up and down his life’s roller coaster. The movie…