Mystery fiction

Leo Tolstoy wrote that there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. The same is true for English teachers: There are as many reasons to teach literature as there are teachers of literature. The most philosophical teachers could assert that fiction serves as a self-actualizing force, that people read “to set the darkness echoing” (Heaney 1463). Still more could posit that an English class serves as an introduction to the canon, ensuring that students are well-educated members of society…

Princess X The book that I chose was Princess X. In this book the main character May, is completely distraught when one day she hears that her best and only friend Libby got in a car crash on her way back from Gymnastics class. Libby and her mom went flying into the lake when they were in the crash. One day May finds a princess X sticker on a old store window. She doesn’t know how it could have been there because Libby and May were the only ones that knew about the character. In the…

The Tell Tale Heart is an interesting story and mysterious at the same time . The mystery is in the fact that you did not really know or have a clue about the narrator’s name or actual identity . You do not even know his/her gender or look . The narrator , or the killer of the story, was definitely keeping on trying to defend his sanity . But killing an innocent old man definitely proves otherwise . You can not be sane when your actions prove the opposite thing . Not to mention that he says he…

In her book, “A Poetics of Postmodernism”, Linda Hutcheon identifies the term postmodernism, when used in fiction, to describe fiction that is at once metafictional and historical in the way it presents the texts and contexts of the past (Hutcheon, 40). This is what she calls historiographic metafiction. Most of the historiographic novels emphasize self-reflexivity and our paradoxical relations to past events. Historiographic metafiction somehow acknowledges the paradox of the past, that is to…

Comparison Paper: Citizen Kane and Pulp Fiction Influences on film making in today’s industry occur often, with new skills and techniques being implemented by daring producers and directors and are typically recycled by the next movie premiere. However, being boldly different is how particular film makers succeed, inspire future artists, and even make their mark on the industry, such as Orson Welles and Quentin Tarantino. Both film makers have been notarized for their accomplishments with not…

Fiction Novels and Their Impact On My Life
 As a child, giant books scared me, so watching my older brother finish an 800 page harry potter book in less than a day blew my little 8 year old mind. Since that historical moment in time, I have grown an addiction to fiction books. Watching a writer’s imagination come to life through ink on paper was amazing, and I strove to capture the same images in my own mind. The brilliant fiction novels I read when I was younger, the environment my brother and…

Borges’ “The Mirror of Ink” embodies the essence of a quintessential moral anecdote. Brief, deliberate and insightful, “The Mirror of Ink” certainly asserts to its readership a particular set of lessons and imperatives but, as the title implies, there is a complex and nuanced ambiguity to the content of Borges’ short story. The title of this piece is something of an oxymoron. A mirror is by nature a pure reflective surface. Ink, conversely, is muddled and opaque. A mirror of ink seems…

uses tone, scene, and description to make the story flow and feel believable. He teaches the reader how to create living, breathing characters, while still using symbolism to add mystery and foreshadow to the piece. While perfect for this story, other authors, to create their own pieces of fiction and creative non-fiction, can use these techniques. Firstly, the first paragraph sets up the tone of this story. It is coming of age story. The first paragraph is not about the protagonist, but…

a wonderful heartfelt story.“Tell Me” by Joan Bauer is about a girl and her yellow scrunchie with the ambition and bravery to find a little girl. “Tell Me” is written in a third person point of view, so hint by hint you figure out the mystery. This book is fiction, but it’s very suspenseful and sorrowful a real page turner. This is a 300 page book. The main character in “Tell Me” would be Anna McConnell. Twelve year old Anna lives in Philadelphia. Anna is an actress and has performed in many…

1. State the title and author of the novel. “Out of the Silent Planet.” By C.S. Lewis. 2. Where is the story set? 1/3 of the story is in London, the other portion is on the red planet of Malacadra. 3. When is the story set? It does not say, therefore I had to estimate so I would say the 1900s. 4. Place it in its’ historical context. The historical context is in its belief, belief that there are other planets out there, and that nothing is impossible. Because, Ransom at first, did not believe…