Memento

Bradbury became one of the most honored American authors in the genres of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery. In the 1950’s many authors were writing motivational novels, but not Bradbury. His desire for fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery set him aside from other authors and he was widely noticed. “When people asked about the purpose of his novels, Bradbury responded, ‘I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it’” (“Ray Bradbury” Encyclopedia). Ray Bradbury was…

An alarm blares in the background. Athena's icy prison begins to thaw. "Come back . . . you bastard." She forces the words out of her mouth causing her to cough violently. "Critical failure in cryogenic array. All vault residents must vacate immediately," the Vault-Tech computer announces. "What? Fuck," Athena cusses under her shaky breath. She punches the glass rather weakly. Suddenly, the door begins to open. Athena attempts to carefully step out of the cryogenic pod but she loses…

Harald Welzer identifies the divergence between official, public cultures of remembrance in Germany (the history of the Third Reich taught in schools, the establishing of Holocaust memorials, etc.) and private cultures of remembrance in Germany (multigenerational histories situated within family storytelling), evolving from his study of Western and Eastern German families through interviews, individually and collectively, regarding contextual, historical knowledge of the Third Reich and their…

The concept of time, and how it can be used to alter the structure and story of a film has intrigued filmmakers for years. Whereas time's rules are usually unflinching, the creation of film has allowed these rules to be bent and broken in previously unseen ways. Stories with a non-linear structure can now be told fluently and dramatically, such as Christopher Nolan's ‘Dunkirk', or instead complex story arcs can be explored, utilising time in a unique way, like in Shane Carruth's ‘Primer' in…

also do not suggest any hostility towards her. Finally, “be all my sins remembered” may simply indicate a wish to be in her prayers, and an acknowledgement that he has sinned –another recurring theme throughout the play. Upon the return of certain mementos, however, Hamlet descends in to a state of hostility wherein he tells Ophelia: “I did love you once” (3.1.121-122) only to moments later tell her “I loved you not” (3.1.125). The emotional jabs that Hamlet delivers throughout the remainder of…

of her novels and went on the become editor of Poetry Review, an internationally acclaimed quarterly. She later published a series of biographies on writers like William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë and is best known for her novels, Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for which she received multiple accolades. Spark was made a dame in 1993. She died on April 13, 2006, in Florence, Italy. The portrayal of teachers in the creative medium of…

Chapter 27. Return flight And John Blyth? Ah, I wondered if you’d remember. At nineteen, already he was a veteran of 51 solitary missions to Germany. A number of them ranged as far as Berlin. His steed was the Spitfire Mark XI, developed from the Mark IX especially for recce purposes. Instead of guns it had additional fuel tanks in the leading edges of the main plane. It was equipped with two 36 inch cameras. No guns, no bullet proof windscreen, nothing – just cameras. These men flew unarmed and…

Every Saturday, I distinctly recall the smell of pancakes, bacon, and eggs. The radio would be playing in the background, masked by the overwhelming chatter occurring throughout the house. So many things happening in such a small space: what I remember most, is the sound of laughter, and the smiles that surrounded me. My grandpa hollering because he cannot hear the television, my mother still drowsy from the sleepless night, My grandmother singing to the radio that was barely audible over the…

Our favorite serial killer is awkwardly witty and charming in a way that can’t be explained. He’s the person we all cheered for and never wanted to get caught. Dexter Morgan is forensic analyst specializing in blood splatter for the Miami Metro Police Department. He was adopted by a popular and well decorated police officer named Harry Morgan and his wife who already had a daughter named Debra Morgan. When Harry was raising Dexter, he realized that he was different from the other children. Once…

Within every memoir, there has been this common theme of a young individual becoming more exposed to the dangers of the world and how this turns their life as they once knew it, upside down. These authors face some events that one may have never thought possible in their life but also raise many questions about the reliance of their perspective. In each piece of what we assume is non-fiction, comes a problematic nature of what these individuals may have had to create to fulfill a story line.…