Fiction

Science Fiction Dystopian Governments Would you be willing to live in a futuristic society that violently forces you to conform by forcing you to fight other people, in order to win your family food, and penalizes you with ostracization or even death? The genre of sci-fi and theme of dystopian fiction can be portrayed through various mediums, such as television, film, and novels in order to portray important themes. Novels such as Huxley’s Brave New World urge the readerto value individualism…

Prologue It only took a moment. Only a heartbeat. Only a single scream. Only a moment, before two lives were lost, a spirit trapped on earth and one girl to be both granted a gift and damned with a curse in the blink of an eye. It took only a second, for a life to change forever. It took only a second, the world to end. And Adeline’s, ended in a single moment. The air was warm on her pale skin as she breathed in the smell of cold rain falling from the gray sky above, the moon…

stated in the preface, Life of Pi is Martel’s fourth book – the second and third of which were failures. Life of Pi is a comeback novel for Martel – his first appreciated novel, and justly so. Life of Pi is a fictional story which incorporates non-fiction in order to blend the lines between the two genres. The book is most interested in questioning our everyday beliefs – reality, religion, and our origin story. The book begins with Martel in the book – he is listening to the story of Pi for the…

Extra Credit Walter J. Ong’s article, “The Writer’s Audience Is Always a Fiction” discusses that a writer’s audience is always made up. As we know an oral performer has an audience but this isn’t the same for writer. Ong explains, in order to successfully write a piece the writer has to imagine the certain type of people reading their article. This isn’t who always will end up reading it, it’s who the author make them to be. Writer’s cast their reader’s roles in their work to help them succeed…

Jacob Walker drew his coat tighter around him and tugged his Stetson lower as he stepped out into the snow. He started down the winding driveway to collect the mail, his face numb from the biting wind. Winter had set in, and already he was restless. The house was quiet, housing just him, Christine and their son Holt until next hunting season when clients would fill the lodges. For ten years, he had lived for the fall when he could guide hunters into the mountains. But now he felt edgy.…

This comic is mainly about a 6th grade boy named Nate who assumes the worse and in the end the opposite happens. On the first day, where the story begins, Nate’s friends (names unknown) are shocked to see Nate hanging out with them because he was supposed to be with a girl. Through the comic you’ll see Nate’s friends questioning him about what happened between him and his friend Trudy. Nate avoids his friend’s questions due to frustration and disappointment. He later explains that Trudy doesn’t…

"Aaannnddd... we're back to square one." I huff at the increasingly dire predicament we bundles of joy face. By that, being utterly surrounded by varying degrees of savage animals- wolves, tigers, a hippo, and a few giant rats. Not to mention we found out that they have been experimented on- and mindcontrolled- by the evil brain. A literal brain. "Well, technically this is your fault, because you were the one that suggested we confront slimey over there." Artemis speaks out, her back and…

Fiction Novels and Their Impact On My Life
 As a child, giant books scared me, so watching my older brother finish an 800 page harry potter book in less than a day blew my little 8 year old mind. Since that historical moment in time, I have grown an addiction to fiction books. Watching a writer’s imagination come to life through ink on paper was amazing, and I strove to capture the same images in my own mind. The brilliant fiction novels I read when I was younger, the environment my brother and…

dominating the genre. Though the question remains: how has or why has dystopian fiction captivated young adults? Experts have come to believe that dystopian narratives, such as the popular Hunger Games, and Divergent, allow the young adult audience personify world issues that circulate in daily news. Along with…

Facts and fiction in the novel 'The Mahabharata Secret' Christopher C Doyle was brought up as a boy with good amount of books ranging from classical literature to science fiction and fantasy to poetry and plays, he has dreamed of becoming a writer from an early age. Before he finally undertook the journey of achieving his childhood dreams, he then pursued a career in the corporate world and he graduated from St. Stephens College, Delhi with a degree in Economics and studied business management…