Dystopian fiction

Toni Morrison said that “The past is more infinite than the future… It's avoiding it, deceiving ourselves about it that paralyzed growth. This quote talks about how thinking about the past, pretending things could be different are what causes someone to never escape their own guilt about what they've done. This sentiment is particularly evident in Beloved, it is one of its main themes in the book. Both the characters of Sethe and Paul D had lives filled with suffering and hardship. In order to…

The plotlines and settings of The Iron Trial and Revan, when compared, couldn’t be further apart on the fictional spectrum, but the two main characters are a different story. On the surface, Revan and Callum don’t seem very alike in personality, but they share many important traits that serve as the basis of their motives. The biggest ailment the protagonists in both of the books suffer from is amnesia, though they have it for different reasons. This plays a huge part when it comes to defining…

Valcourt, Quebec is a very snow heavy place in Canada. The roads were never plowed in rural areas like Valcourt back in the 1920’s, making outside travel during the winter impossible. Growth was slow, towns were very spread apart, and illness during these periods spelled death with the inability to travel. What if one machine could change all of those things and more? Joseph Armand Bombardier thought so when he created the first snowmobile in 1922. More so, the snowmobile was the largest bolster…

In the forward of *Thinking in Pictures,* renowned British neurologist, Oliver Sacks, describes Temple Grandin's work as "a deeply moving and fascinating book because it provides a bridge between our world and hers, and allows us a glimpse into a quite other sort of mind." (xviii) Grandin's writings offers readers a rare and luminously clear account of her internal world. Her mind seems to function in distinctly different ways than those of non-autistics, and these differences are both…

How did Different People Influence Eilis’ return to Brooklyn In the book Brooklyn By Colm Toibin Eilis, the character that this story focusses on, returned to her home of Ireland to support her mother after the death of her sister Rose. Her mother and friends expected that she would be staying in Ireland but instead she decided to go home to Brooklyn because she was influenced by the people in her life such as her husband Tony. She was also influenced to return because of her job opportunities…

While focusing on how to develop my voice for my character, I’ve decide to compare two novels, Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. While I read these two novels I decided to use Philip Lopate’s book To Show and To Tell as a reference for the way to tell a story with double perspective. In Junot Diaz novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar we are introduced a third person point of view narrator who later appears in the work himself telling a…

The philosopher Anthony Hope wrote many novels, his most famous being “The prisoner of Zenda.” Anthony Hope only wrote one short story “The Philosopher in the apple orchard.” He Had many jobs open to him being well educated but his favorite was to write stories. The reader can see that the story does reflect the author. Hope was well educated but preferred to keep to himself leaving a law career so he could focus on writing his stories. (Elwin 171) Anthony was a great writer most of his life…

Existentialism in a broad sense, might be seen as a philosophy that is predominantly concerned with the analysis of existence, and the meaning of life through free will. However, the existentialism could be perceived as much more than philosophical movement, since much of its popularity in the 1950s, and 1960s, was achieved through the literary fictional works of Sartre’s, such as Nausea and No Exit. Among the major philosophers identified as existentialists were Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger,…

Sliding Doors (1998) explores the two distinct outcomes of the life of a woman who misses her train. Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow), the woman in question, is fired from her PR job for trivial reasons and goes to take the train back home. In one outcome, after missing her train, she walks back to the street, calls a cab, and goes home after a couple delays, to her boyfriend Gerry (John Lynch) who comforts her after her tough day. In the other, she catches her train, meets James (John Hannah) then…

She then realized in the end that Paul meant more to her than her fortune. Anna became greedy, Sarty turned on his family, and the mother regrets her son’s death because of her greed. In the first short story, “Anna on the Neck”, the element of fiction that helps develop the theme would be character. The way Anna views life changes so much in this short story. Anne becomes successful and in the end, she did not care for her family. Initially Anna marries Modest Alexeitch to improve her family 's…