Fantasy Congress

Fantasy Chapter book 1. In the Keifer textbook, they name several fantasy elements. I chose to read The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall because I have always enjoyed the supernatural. This book follows a young orphan as she moves in with her uncle and aunt and begins to be visited by the ghost of her late cousin. The main element of fantasy for this particular novel would be the supernatural element. 2. The author is able to make the story believable by making the main character relatable to many people and by taking time to build up the ghostly element. The main character is a young orphan named Florence, who is taken in by her standoffish aunt and her friendly uncle. Florence often feels lonely, sad and afraid, which are emotions that the readers can relate to all too…

The elements of storytelling based on fantasy began in historic times as a way to explain the unknown. Literature has evolved since those times and many of the unknowns have now been explained through rational scientific methodologies. Stories based in fantasy, however, continue to be one of the most popular genres. Some of reasons for this include the human disposition to dream and wonder about worlds beyond our grasp. Stories based in fantasy both challenge and offer guidance to morals,…

mind probably goes to a fantasy fiction book, right? Well, the book, Jeremy Visick, by David Wiseman, gives you a lot of fantasy, and a little bit of mystery mixed together. Within the book, you will read about Matthew Clemens. After Matthew was sent out to get blackberries, he falls over the bushes and land on a tombstone. He reads this tombstone and the tombstone belongs to a family called, The Visicks. On this tombstone it talks about how a miner and his two sons died in an accident in a mine…

Hank the Cowdog, which was about a dog who lived on a farm and would always go on adventures, such as saving the farm from coyotes or rescuing the pretty collie next door. In the 5th grade I started reading two of my now favorite series, A Series of Unfortunate Events and 39 Clues, which most of my friends recommended to me. Another one of my favorite books at this time, and still is today, is A Wrinkle in Time. One of the many reasons I loved this book was because it explores the depth of…

In Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, (rpt. in Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2015] 1136-1185) each individual character thrives to make their fantasy reality. The story takes place around the same time frame as The Great Depression making the Wingfield’s dreams almost impossible to come true. Amanda, Laura, and Tom Wingfield are defiantly different, however the family all share the aspiration of a fantasy…

Fantasy Genre Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre that uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in exotic fictional worlds where magic and magical creatures are common. The development of the fantasy’s themes and motifs can be explained by the release of The Lord of the Ring. This film did much to establish the genre of fantasy as commercially distinct and viable. Today fantasy continues as…

Go Away from the ‘’Hell’’ Fantasy in Daniel Woodrell Winter’s Bone In the Winter’s Bone, Daniel Woodrell narrates a story of a girl Ree Dolly. She is trying to find her father, Jessup, who produces drugs, and then persuade him to show in the court. However, it is not extremely successful to find him since someone takes charge of Jessup. Ree asks many people about trail of her father but still has no answer. At that time, she gets scared from Uncle Teardrop and beat by other women in…

There are several elements from fairy tales that exist in the novel. Margaret Atwood has received a fantasy award for her pieces of work honoring her for her writing that makes it interesting to read. Similarly, after reading just a few pages of the novel, I see how elements of fairy tale are used in order to create a motif or morals like a fairy tale does. For example, as the author states, “…some fairy-tale figure in a red cloak, descending towards a moment of carelessness that is the same as…

A Look Into The World Of Fantasy Fantasy as we know it today is by far the most difficult of all the genres to pinpoint a clear definition. In the book A Critical Handbook of Children’s Literature 9th Edition, it is defined to “depict a world unlike the one we usually call real.” (Lukens, Smith, Coffel, 2013) and others have define it has magical or dreamlike places. No matter how you define it the goal of Fantasy is to take readers away from the normalcy of everyday life and has long done so…

In the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, there are a lot of themes that can be found and applied to the real world, even though this book is a fantasy book. These themes can help you deal with hardships in your life. An example of one theme would be the theme of love. The theme I will be talking about is that you have to go through the times where there’s sadness and the times where there’s happiness, because where there is sadness, there is happiness. Or in another term, when there…