Hugo Award for Best Novel

In the story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, Rachel, the main character, depicts an event on her eleventh birthday that strongly affected her. The story begins by explaining Rachel’s perspective and her feelings on birthdays. It’s her eleventh birthday, but she feels as if she’s still ten years old. She expected to wake up and feel eleven years old, but everything was just like the day before and nothing had really changed. Rachel says that when we all do or say something unintelligent, that’s the…

him. Look towards his meeting the female lead Tiffany, which only occurred because of Pat agreeing to attending a dinner party with his friend Ronnie and his wife Veronica even though he knows Veronica doesn’t care for him, but happens to be Nikki best friend, something he sees as a way to get Nikki attention if Veronica believes him to be better. Where once Pat and Tiffany have meet during the dinner party, where we come to learn more about Tiffany’s character who on top of her depression…

We can think of Grendel and the monster as two bullied high schoolers that aren’t part of any clicks. As they go through their lives, they are persistent in befriending anyone, however, because of their appearance, they are both rejected. Whenever they try to enter a click through any means, they are punished for it violently, which leads to their mental decay and instability, and possible their deaths. Grendel, from John Gardner’s Grendel, and the Monster in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, are…

In the short story “The Lady, or the Tiger” author Frank R. Stockton creates make believe kingdom. In this kingdom the ruler was a semi barbaric king. The king had an arena, and when a crime was committed the accused were put into to prison. They would await their day till they were put in the arena. The king let them decide their fate by picking between two doors. Behind one door held a hungry, ferocious tiger waiting for his next victim to open his door. Behind the other door was a fair,…

Thank you Kami for allowing me to read your story. The story was so suspenseful. I could not even stop myself from reading your story. I really wanted to find out what happen to Bartholomew and how it ended up in his father’s prison. I like how you went back and forth from the past and the present, it really added dynamics to your story. You did a great job of setting up the scenery so we could understand the world that Bartholomew was living. Your story read very smoothly and with great fluency…

Ehrenreich gave commendable data throughout her book. However, her process from beginning to end was anything but flawless. She lacked a great amount of authenticity in her experiment. The journalist’s entire journey was not a complete failure. One major aspect that really made her research a semi-success was her abandonment of her life. In the intro of the book she encourages, “…old fashioned…journalism” and believes it could gather accurate data about the lives of minimum wage workers…

Moore, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran. The novel was published in 2011 by Random House Publishing. I chose this novel because I was captured by it’s title and the background story. It’s based on a true story about two males, who have the same name, are raised in the same poverty and crime-infested area, but hold two completely different fates. Although they both had their fair share of committing crimes, one went on to be the author of this novel, a scholar, and veteran, while the other is…

Muhammad Ali is insisting that ‘impossible’ is used as an excuse to avoid taking on new, seemingly difficult endeavors. In one part he says that ‘impossible’ is used by people who “find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.” This indicates that people use this word to do what they know they can in this world, and count everything they supposedly can’t as impossible. Ali says that they have the choice to validate more activities as…

Is Everyone Ready for Fun, this book illustrates for children. In this book, all the characters were a cartoon. They all looks like they were drawn by color pencil. A writer of this book is Jan Thomas. Also, the writer focusing on helping the children to teach the physical activities like jumping, dancing, wiggling, and taking naps. The book tells that the rowdy cows come to the chicken house, and they start doing those activities. Jumping, dancing, and wiggling done by cows make chicken fell…

and watch.” Are antagonists are essentially like the pig head in “Lord of the flies.” that the monster isn't real, that it is an internal evil, there are no monsters on maple street they are the monsters, They are the beasties. The author of this novel says the following “He swings the gun around to point it toward the sidewalk. The dark figure continues to walk toward them. The group there, fearful, apprehensive, mothers clutching children, men standing in front of wives. Charlie slowly raises…