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    River resembles a form of historical interpretation that fictionalizes a point in history that is fraught with grief and indignation. The text exemplifies the different types of people of colonial Australia and their views towards the Indigenous people. By understanding the limitations history allows in exploring these views, Grenville was compelled to form her own interpretation of the past resulting in a fictional history of Australia. By undertaking this type of fiction Grenville was…

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    happened in history! As a matter of fact, not only the events in this novel seemed accurate, but some of the major characters and jobs in this book appeared accurate as well. The novel Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes depicts an accurate piece of historical fiction in regards to events, people, and jobs. Esther Forbes appeared to portray the events in this novel quite accurately. In the book, it states how during the Boston Tea Party, colonists became outraged by the British implementing taxes…

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    A relatively new genre in cinema known as climate fiction has come into fruition ever since scientist have brought to our attention the occurrence of a human induced climate change. Climate fiction has been a hard film category to define, and an even harder genre to critique. A historical analysis of climate fiction is legitimate though the time period climate fiction in film covers is only 40 years. Its legitimacy spurs from climate fiction being a public response to a problem and also the fact…

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    Anything that children read is under the term of Children Literature, whether fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama used by young people (Nodelman, 2008:9). Therefore, an author of a great literary work is presented an award which is structured with one organization as the presenter and another financial sponsor organization. I tended in this essay to discuss the importance of the awards to children literature. Criteria judges and procedures associated with winning the prize, is taken in…

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    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…

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    Instead of telling the reader of their own personal experiences the author may write about someone else’s personal experience. Informative style writing tells information verbatim and is also non-fiction, which is a factual story. An author rarely writes about themselves in a sports article in a newspaper. Articles found in the newspaper, almanacs, and encyclopedias are all examples of informative style writings. Informative style writing is another…

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    A Song Of Ice And Fire

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    required fiction to read. It is worthwhile. Firstly, A Song of Ice and Fire, in my point of view, is not merely a fantasy and fiction, it more like a historical stories, reflected the moment in Wars of the Roses, representing a change of epics. The continents Westeros and Essos are similar as the two rival branches in throne of England: House of Plantagenet and House of York in 15th century, and even parallel as the current confliction between the mainland China and Taiwan now. As a fiction, it…

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    in both fiction and nonfiction literature, the representation of a Perpetrator first person perspective is rare. Littell constructs a character that allows this perspective to be fully exploited whilst Binet avoids giving his characters free speech and sticks to a more traditional omniscient narrator. Perpetrator narrative may be uncomfortable to read, however it is arguably required to fully understand Nazi power and give an account of the social and human motives of the time. Historical…

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    the time that the novel took place in. Comparing the events from the article of the book, we can find that that they both contain similarities. Due to the amount of similarities in both texts, there are very few differences. After reading the historical fiction novel and the nonfiction article, there are many similarities, but few differences between the two texts.…

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    Hacksaw ridge can be seen in genres such as war, drama, historical fiction and biographical films. What normally happens in this film category? In war films they are exploring battles that take place in the air, land or sea and are filled with combat and survival/ escape scenes. In historical fiction they explore past events and are set in a historical period. Biographical films are based on broadcasting the life of an individual whether they are real or fictional and events that happened…

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