Fiction

Paranoid fiction shows the manipulative nature of reality and how it can be altered by powerful forces. These forces can be a governing body, such as a dictatorship or communist government, or they can be an internal situation, such as a character's mental instability or refusal to accept the harshness of the world he or she is in. Unlike speculative fiction, paranoid fiction is written in a way so as to imply that the story may only be a delusion of the characters, instead of treating it as an…

What comes to mind when people think science fiction? In reality, this depends on what literature the person has had experience with. I think you could accurately guess that the first thing a lot of people might come up with would be Hunger Games. However, some people might bring out more classic literature like War of the Worlds. You can confuse yourself more by asking someone what science fiction is. Everyone seems to have their own opinions on this subject and you might even start a…

Nonfiction versus fiction is very different for me. Fiction stories are usually intriguing, filled with suspense and drama. They always have an unexpected twist that keeps you wanting more. With nonfiction, the stories are about personal experiences and not always as exciting as a fictional story. If the nonfiction story is not correctly written, the story becomes very boring. For this assignment, I chose Joan Didion’s On Going Home and Langston Hughes’ Salvation. The two stories had an area…

is romance, historical, non-fiction, science fiction, and many others. A genre is grouped together when there is something similar between the different books or movies. No matter what genre someone looks at there is something that catches their eyes and makes them like it. A genre that has a lot of eye-catching characteristics is science fiction. Science fiction is a way to express all the possibilities that can happen to an event, and over the history of science fiction, there are many…

“Why Fiction is Good for You” Kate Taylor Mohawk College The article “Why Fiction is Good for You” by Kate Taylor is based on the next novel project of author Keith Oatley which shows the influence of Fiction on one’s life. Keith Oatley is a professor of cognitive psychology at University of Toronto (The Globe and Mail, n.d.). His works include an award-winning novel named The Case of Emily V which won a Commonwealth Prize in 1994 (The Globe and Mail, n.d.). The author Katherine (Kate) Taylor…

I. Gender Roles The comic Stumptown by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth and the audio podcast Nick Carter: Master Detective starring Lon Clack portray the different roles of gender in detective fiction. Nick Carter was on the radio from 1943 to 1955, and represents more traditional roles of gender. Although the character Nick Carter was chronicled in books and a movie, the most well- known installment of his story was the radio show. Over the many episodes, the radio show followed detective…

Comparison Paper: Citizen Kane and Pulp Fiction Influences on film making in today’s industry occur often, with new skills and techniques being implemented by daring producers and directors and are typically recycled by the next movie premiere. However, being boldly different is how particular film makers succeed, inspire future artists, and even make their mark on the industry, such as Orson Welles and Quentin Tarantino. Both film makers have been notarized for their accomplishments with not…

Lemar Davis Direct and Indirect Characterization Characterization is an element in almost every work of fiction, whether it is a short story, a novel, or anywhere in between. A writer has two options they can choose whether to do direct or indirect characterizations. With direct characterization is direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like. Indirect characterization is reveals information about a character and his…

The sub-genre of crime noir, hardboiled fiction, was invented by Edgar Allan Poe. His publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841 marked the creation of the hardboiled genre of crime fiction, which further took off fifty years later with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels. The mystique surrounding these genre’s is what attracts audiences, a tradition that has continued in the production of films. The Maltese Falcon is one of the most popular examples of…

Understanding Science Fiction as a genre, as well as a device to tell stories that consider a potential future, begins not with understanding science but rather understanding the ways in which humans have and continue to perceive and govern the world. We are a curious species, one that has been innovating existence since the first anthropoid apes and questioning our place in the larger universe since the first remnants of religion. Currently we are at a point in history where we believe our…