Fiction

In the article “Your Brain on Fiction,” the author, Annie Murphy Paul, explains the neurological effects that reading fiction has on different areas of our brain and its bene- fits to us as humans. She states how researchers have put a significant amount of time and energy into analyzing how reading fiction actively stimulates the human brain and it’s various lobes. With the help of a functional magnetic resonance machine (fMRI) re- searchers can watch which areas of the brain “light” up as a…

differ from reading fiction? Is it at all similar? Why or why not? Every book is different. Some books lead the reader on a great adventure, others give advice on how to be a better basketball player. Both the books I read for this summer assignment provide an argument on how to be a better person and use stories in order to convey emotions to the reader, therefore making an argument about humankind. One of these novels was fiction, the other nonfiction. These two books while having similar…

In the film, Stranger than Fiction, director, Marc Forster demonstrated the concept that the inevitability of fate is often presupposed. However, in reality, the small, seemingly insignificant acts can influence, and eventually alter the outcomes in life. His development of the main characters, Harold and Karen, the filming techniques used, and the use of motifs, imagery and symbolism augmented the strength of this idea. Additionally, the manner in which Forster developed the plot, and the…

Science fiction for children is a form of fantasy literature that takes real science and extrapolates the science to form fantasy stories. Science fiction teaches students how real science ideas work but tweaks it so that it does not become real. Back when society carried boom boxes and radios to listen to music around the house on the way to the beach, when nobody could peacefully listen to music because they had headphones that weighed a lot. A writer by the name of Ray Bradbury introduced a…

Because The Rebels was a historical fiction novel, accuracy is very important. In order to feel the full flooding of high run emotions throughout the book, it had to feel real first. In order to fall in love with the character and hurt for the character, the reader had to first believe the character. Although the story took place in the 1700s while the book itself was written by John Jakes in 1979, I still find the historical precision of the novel well done. Due to the accuracy, there is a lot…

The Awakening Is More than "Sex Fiction" The audience was scandalized. The critics condemned the book as immoral. Some went so far as to call it "essentially vulgar" and "sex fiction" (Literature 20). This was the public outcry that Kate Chopin's The Awakening caused upon its publication in 1899. The reviews were overwhelmingly negative, denouncing the novel for its daring discussion of matters such as female sexuality and extramarital affairs. Since then, The Awakening has taken on a new…

Hugo Gernsback, "Science-fiction ... can be defined as: imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future" (Gernsback). . Hugo Gernsback’s definition of science fiction is strongest because it incorperates aspects of imagination, discusses technology that currently exists, and explores phenomena that may exist in the future as seen in Ray Bradbury's Farenheit…

these falls under the category science fiction. Science fiction is literature expressing our imagination while being guided by logic. When you think about science fiction. I's most likely you’re relating it to Stars Wars or Star Trek, but there are other great examples for science fiction like the movie Dragon Ball Z; Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan. I’d picked this movie because it best describe the definition for science fiction. This movie was built on fiction, but guided by logic. There…

In the interview that Sam Ligon had with Katrina Hays, he expressed the way he felt about writing short-short fiction in a great way. While doing the interview at first, he began to talk about how it would be stupid for him to even think about trying to write a short-short because he wrote long novels. He couldn’t see how someone could possibly get their point across in 300 words which is what he was asked to do. His first initial reaction was to say that he wasn’t going to do it and that it was…

The Martian: Hard or Soft Science Fiction? A popular interest among science lovers today is an interest in Mars, possibly because we are becoming much closer to being able to send people there. One of the most popular, and most recent, works regarding Mars is The Martian, a novel by Andy Weir that later was adapted to film by Ridley Scott. The main story is that astronaut and botanist, Mark Watney, is abandoned on Mars by his crew after being struck by flying debris in a large sandstorm. There,…