Fiction

anyone reads a story, they become aware of many different types of elements of fiction. A writer can use elements of fiction to make their story move and read in a way that will make the story good and exciting to read. When using elements in the correct way, the writer can add an air of suspense within the reader, making them wonder what is going to happen next. Flannery O'Connor uses a number of elements of fiction in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Setting, plot, and point of view are just a…

The Ivanhoe “fan fiction” by Billy Adams describes a situation where Isaac and Ivanhoe escape an unfamiliar “figure” coming at them. In the story Isaac takes down the figure and then he and Ivanhoe continues as planned. This story uses a suspenseful hook, surprising action, and an open ended conclusion to captivate the reader. The fan fiction written by Billy Adams was compelling. The first sentence creates suspense, making the reader want to continue reading the story. It says, “He turns to…

Dystopian fiction shows what would happen if one or more of the flaws in the present day is taken to the extreme in a society. Utopian fiction shows what would happen if our achievements and more were brought into the author's version of the "perfect society." Dystopian societies are societies that were meant to be utopias but turned out to have major flaws. Dystopian fiction is not only to entertain but in a way to inform that there is something wrong with our society. The possible effects a…

The school board has proposed that works of fiction should be removed from the curriculum of all English classes, that is a not a good choice because making a curriculum is very difficult and lengthy. The students would have to learn how to find themes and lessons in literature without actually putting it into use in the classroom. The board would then have to invest into new textbooks as the ones we have now have works of fiction in them and getting new books is costly.The piece of literature…

Science fiction is a genre of writing in which the author attempts to explain imagined events that may occur in the past, present or the future. These events are typically not possible in the time that the story is written, but are made to seem possible using scientific innovations. Science fiction often includes aliens, space travel, and advanced technologies that allow the introduction of unique characters, settings, and conflicts to the story. For example, a piece of science fiction is the…

real to him, really, as the one that everybody sees” is an author of grotesque fiction. Flannery O’Connor, a Southern devout Catholic writer, who struggles with the stigma of being apart of “The School of Southern Degeneracy,” and feels “judged by the fidelity [her] fiction has to typical Southern life,” and in the same breath takes pride in her identity. Writes in her piece “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction,” about the perspective of the grotesque writer in relation to the…

Sci-fi or science fiction movie is a type of movie that feature a science based plot, which usually include futuristic elements such as robot, space, etc. Furthermore, science fiction sometime talks about other issues like political, social, and philosophical. According to Vivian Sobchack, an American cinema and media theorist and cultural critic said that “Science fiction film is a film genre which emphasizes actual, extrapolative, or speculative science and the empirical method, interacting in…

Science Fiction Writers of America. Additionally, it is acknowledged as a work of science fiction. Yet, nowhere in the book does it mention aliens, outer space, or mutated superhumans derived from a science experiment gone wrong. Unlike the typical science fiction story, Daniel Keyes focuses on the impact that science and technology has had on the protagonist, rather than the world. Though this story does not focus on the impact of society, it still fulfills the purpose of science fiction. As…

controversial quality of fan fiction is its transformative nature, which is the most important factor of fair use. In accessing the first factor of fair use, it depends on whether fan fiction can promote and contribute to the progress of the original by transforming and adding new insights and understandings (Leval, 1990). Fan fiction is transformative as it creates multiple situations for the characters and reflects new themes. According to Nolans (2005), fan fiction can be categorized into…

the poem "The End of Science Fiction" and in "An Expostulation" are both against the science fiction genre because both feel as if the sci fi books have died and so has the creativity. Although maybe it was just there way of interpreting of how the genre has died. The sci fi books are still a show of great creativity the authors have yet to show. These authors think otherwise but they have not came to realization that this is just their way of thinking. Science fiction books have a thrilling yet…