Fiction

Gothic writing has persevered through the trial of time and has greatly affected present day fiction, both in print and film. The dimness, the apprehension and the dramatization that started such a long time ago with works of art, for example, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and numerous others keeps on playing out in the cutting edge arrange with adjustments to the works of art and additionally new manifestations that mirror the trademark components of the gothic kind. Human…

cherished many years after they were published. Charlotte Bronte manages to seamlessly appeal to the tastes of the readers in her era as well as the ones for future generations despite the gothic fiction genre becoming less frequent in recent books. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte uses elements of the gothic fiction genre to help focus the reader on mysterious inheritances which are set in the storyline of having women cast in a man 's world, while presenting villainous characters who threaten…

A Peace of Flies In Robert Penn Warren’s essay, “Why Do We Read Fiction?” he concludes that people read fiction because “it [satisfies] our deepest need - the need of feeling our life to be, in itself, significant” (Warren 174-175). Lord of the Flies, “Why Do We Read Fiction”, and A Separate Peace make their readers feel significant because in all three texts, the reader can feel either morally superior of the characters, or share empathy with the characters. In Lord of the Flies, the hunters…

masculinity and that violence is used to instill fear. In many movies, violence is usually only used to instill fear. However, Tarantino’s use of violence does not follow the typical pattern, and he deheroicizes some violence in his movies. In Pulp Fiction, the use of violence is very casual in some scenes. This can also lessen the effect on the audience, allowing them to better cope with intense scenes. For example, after Jules and Vincent murder Brad and his friend, they take the third friend,…

As a film genre, Science Fiction seems boundless as it encompasses any element that is both futuristic and somewhat plausible in nature. Often sci-fi films can be subdivided based on the devises used be they aliens, time travel, or technology driven dystopias, but sci-fi films, even within the same subgenre do not always propose similar ideals. One of the popular subgenres of sci-fi is that of artificial life or more specifically, android/cyborg films. Blade Runner and Terminator 2: Judgement…

Kiva Flowers stood at her bedroom window, looking down upon Manhattan Avenue she bared her teeth at the night. Half her face shielded from New York by a thin silver curtain Kiva watched as a demon emerge from a double parked car right across the street of her building. The creature stepped away from the car and turned its attention towards her building. Kiva imagined it’s wild eyes darting from side to side as it scanned every window on the side of building before coming to a stop at the last…

Russell Banks retells a particular book signing that caused some memories to resurface in his essay “A Novelist’s Vivid Memory Spins Fiction of Its Own”. He first focuses on his initial memories of what caused him to leave Boston to go to Florida and become a writer, and then he recalls what really happened. Banks was at a book signing in his hometown of Boston, across the street from the bookstore where he once worked. He reminisces briefly about his life in the city. He had been a dropout,…

How do we read graphic narratives? We read graphic narratives by incorporating dialogue and structure. The structure helps the reader to understand the plot line and the dialogue helps to inform the reader about specific details based on what is occurring. A typical graphic narrative is what many people think of as a superhero type comic book, but some types of graphic narratives are not structured in that same way. How is it possible to make sense of the images on the page? The words? The…

Rising Action Before the climax could happen, there had to be some rising action, and in this book, there were lots of rising action. One of the most important parts, I feel, was when they found out the dinosaurs were breeding, and steadily getting higher. The numbers rose from 238 to 292. Another big rising action is when Dennis Nedry programs the system, as well as the power, to shut down, then steals dinosaur embryos to sell them. His plan fails when he meets a hungry dinosaur, and… gets…

It was a fucking wild goose-chase. The stalker had planted the email address, and buried it deep in his communications with his last victim, and whilst the Detective spent the entire night interrogating a wheelchair-bound retired schoolteacher, the incident with Lila was filed away at the back of his mind. Eventually, not long before the break of dawn, they'd departed Harold Greer's apartment complex, and he and Jarrod parted company. Only when Tom was alone again did the evening's events come…