Fiction

Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino’s film is violent yet comical, modish and filled with thrilling different plot twists making it hyper-real as Henry A Giroux has stated. The elements of hyper-reality helps the audience distinguish reality from imitation making us question and think on how to perceive the film. At the beginning of the film Pulp Fiction defines pulp giving the audience two definitions but the second one is clearly the more relevant one. Pulp is defined as “A magazine or book…

The internet, the library, doctors and physicians 5. McCracken’s frustrations were that she would learn things she did not want to know and how incomplete everything was. (b) I think McCracken became a writer of fiction because she knew that if she became a writer of nonfiction, she would never be able to really tell the whole story. She would probably never really know the whole story herself. She wouldn’t be able to make up her own characters and get to know them…

Meg suddenly feels herself carried into what feels like another dimension. Charles Wallace and Calvin disappear from around her and all light and sound vanished. She feels as though she is moving through a terrifying void. Soon Charles Wallace reappears and she can see him, though she feels distant from him. Soon she sees Calvin again, though it feels as if she's looking at him through a 'glimmering' veil. Eventually, she reappears in previous state, and finds that all three of them are now in…

Although science fiction might seem to the future of our human lives not all is with us and view it as a good thing. People need to start viewing science fiction as a good thing because this is what drives humans to create new and improved technology. Which means if anything we are almost in the era of futuristic technology. We always see new and improved which of course this genre science fiction has a lot to relate to our human ways. Not all in this genre is bad especially how both of these…

Short Fiction Analysis: A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner A Rose for Emily is a short story by William Faulkner. This story is about a woman named Miss Emily, although she is already deceased in the story, her life is told from the perspective of a townsman. He begins the short as a curious prospector paying his respects to this “fallen monument”. Miss Emily is perceived as a grumpy ancient lady, who is unwilling to change, her house is the evidence that suffers the most from her stubborn…

Crime fiction television shows from different countries portray the contrasting values and cultural ideologies societies of differing nations possess. A nation’s context greatly influences the crime fiction programs that it creates; current events occurring within a country and the contemporary issues that they deal with all shape the shows they produce. The American drama “Breaking Bad”, England’s “Sherlock Holmes” as well as the Australian show “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries”, all demonstrate…

The novel Never Cry Again by Jim Cole is written in the historical fiction genre. The protagonist, Drew (Andrew George Simmons), has had a rough life since birth and his struggles seem to worsen with time. Drew's life starts in a brothel where he is cared for by Maude, the brothel's maid, and by the congregation at a nearby church. Even though it was rare for this time period, the all African American congregation at Ebenezer Church of God in Jesus Christ accepted caucasion Drew. Although loved…

1. Introduction This paper is about the detective fiction in Poe and Doyle, comparing the most important and well-known characters Dupin and Holmes. In order to do this, the paper will be divided in four parts: the detective fiction in both authors, the analysis of Dupin and the analysis of Holmes. In order to understand this work, it will be observed first what detective fiction is. Detective fiction is a genre in which an investigator or a detective, professional or not, investigates a crime,…

most unique, creative directors of all time. Tarantino gives violence more of a meaning then just blood and gore, but depth of why people are violent. Mark Conrad wrote an essay entitled “Symbolism, Meaning, and Nihilism in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction” which explores the idea of a deeper layer underneath the violence in these films. Tarantino creates a world full of violence in ways to show morality, power and because it’s simply entertaining, and that’s why he’s one of the best directors…

Science Fiction is defined as fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes. Many of these types of novels portray a dystopian future society as seen in George Orwell’s 1984. Other works portray monsters like in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Or they deal with time travel, and aliens like the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. In any case, there are a multitude of stories that can be categorized in this one genre. With each…