in young adult fiction while looking at my connection to Suzanne Collins’s hit series The Hunger Games. However, being an aspirational adult and a student at a reputable university for studying…
Fiction, they are the bedtime stories we tell our young ones (children, sisters, brothers, cousin, nephew, or nieces). It s the thriller, drama, or romantic novels read by a diverse and large age variety of different readers with interest of different genres. They are the historical, inspirational, motivating writing pieces that catch the eye of mostly adults and elderly people. Fiction’s sole purpose is “enjoyment and understanding” (Perrine,61). Literary fiction is the understanding purpose of…
the novel was also short listed in 2008 for the Best Booker Prize, a prize created to mark the fortieth anniversary of the award. This recognition sets this text apart from Dick's novel, however, the revised criteria which accommodates and promotes genre novels, mean that this particular text is deserving of its consideration for the prize of the best book of the twentieth century. A.S. Bryatt (2001, p.302) asserts that 'the historical novel has been frowned on, and disapproved of, both by…
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT Book 1 1. Author/Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney 2. Title and date of publication: The Tortoise and the Hare, published on 10/01/2013 3. Genre of the book: Traditional Literature 4. Format: Picture Book 5. Award(s): None 6. Summary of the book: The tortoise challenges the hare to a race. He tells him that he can beat him in a race. At the start the hare shoots off and is in the lead, but the tortoise throughout the whole story says that slow and steady will…
totality of historical fiction seems rather trivial—showing little to no purpose other than displaying a historical concept; but with some deconstruction, the genre reveals itself to be much more complex. Historical fiction adopts the factual material from a moment in history with the intent of using it in the development of a fictional narrative, opening the door for the use of a variety of literary devices that would be inoperative otherwise. The genre of historical fiction, as displayed in…
1. Before Humanities 210, how would you have described the philosophies/religions that influenced your processes for decision making, thinking, and developing preferences? How would you describe your level of conscious choice of and commitment to these philosophies/religions? What helped form or develop the belief in that philosophy/religion? Answer: Growing up, I always went to a Christian church and my parents raised me with Christian values. This has had an incredible impact on my…
Lana Wachowski became famous as one of the Wachowski Brothers. Blockbusters including The Matrix Trilogy helped her make a name for herself in the film industry, but that name was Laurence Wachowski. As their movies rose to fame and acclaim, Wachowski directing duo sought to keep their personal lives in the shadows, avoiding the press until Cloud Atlas. A trailer for their new film allowed Laurence to make a name in the industry again, and this time it would be the proper name - Lana Wachowski.…
quote is from the book The Hot Zone Richard Preston and the ebola virus is kinda like Scfi in my mind. When you think of Scifi you think of awful scary things that could wipe out the whole human population. Thats what ebola is, but its real. Science fiction or Scfi is something that is fictional that uses future technological advances or changes to the environment. I have learned many things about Scifi and writing techniques that talk about Scifi from the movie Unbreakable, the book The Hot…
simultaneous naive and profound lens of Christopher Boone, but it is the inclusion of irony and epistolary form that gave the novel breadth and depth. Throughout the novel It’s illustrated the struggles of human communication. Throughout the genre of crime fiction and the distinctive narrative voice of the main protagonist, Christopher Boone, the reader is taken on a journey which explores the nature of the complexity of human relationships. Have you ever been unable to see simple sarcasm? Well…
world of modern literature. Although with a long delay, Iranian society also experienced the same conditions. Ironically, the dominance of a conservative and backward Islamic government in Iran after 1979 revolution led to flourish modernist Persian fiction that is built on the basis of fictional uncertainty. Classical types of narration dominated Persian literature until the 1906 Constitutional Revolution are mostly constructed by a central myth and a third-person omniscient narrator, and…