Neil Gaiman

When is Writing Good? When is writing good? Most people think that there is only one correct answer to that question, and everyone else who says something that differs is wrong automatically. Some people only care about conventions, while others only care about citations. Good writing isn’t necessarily any of those said things, and it can be something total different. I used to believe that writing was really on how well one can literally write. I judged writing on how well individuals used…

Excited for the adventure to come she crawled down the tunnel that, to her surprise, opened right into her own living room. Now though it looked like her real living room, everything was brighter and had a more welcoming atmosphere. Coraline was lured by the smell of real home cooking when she discovered her mother in the kitchen. Pullman said, “When she discovers a sinister woman there, who looks a little like her mother but has eyes that are big black buttons, the matter-of-factness of the…

Libraries all around the world are closing because of the advancement of technology that exists in our world today. There seems to be less need for libraries because of websites like Google, where you can get results instantly, where in a library it would takes a few minutes, possibly hours to find what you are looking for. Throughout the years, technology has become more advanced and it has introduced a type of book called an e-book, which is a book that can be read on electronic devices such…

well with the page so that he could share it later on and provides credit to all of them showing proof of his love for fans. However, it appears that many of the posts are made by a social media manager versus other young adult authors such as Neil Gaiman. This brings in a separation that could be…

Gangs in Louisville, KY and how to Stop Them. This is the issue we are having on our fair city. There have been some incidents in downtown Louisville involving flash mobs of teens aged from 13 to 19 years. Assaulting persons and robbing them. Some stores are also being robbed and vandalized. These incidents have also resulted in some bad publicity that could result in loss of revenue to local business people and hurt the city’s reputation as a safe and attractive tourist destination. Local…

According to the story of American Gods by Neil Gaiman, he emphasize how a population of people, especially immigrants from different countries, believe in Gods. However, the power of these mythological existences has diminished as people's beliefs decreases. As the old gods fallen, the new gods have arisen, which reflecting people's obsessions with media, technology, drugs, and so on. In today’s society, these new gods has become one of the major part in people’s lives by using it for…

based on a novel, or graphic novel, are made with have the same storyline, characters and archetypes. However, it is my humble opinion that movies made from books are drastically different to the original. The graphic novel Coraline was written by Neil Gaiman. As it was extremely popular, it’s no wonder, Henry Selick later turned it into a movie. There are so many different literary devices in the two versions that it provides an opportunity to convey that these changes have been made in order…

“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over,” Neil Gaiman described in his introduction to the 60th anniversary addition to Ray Bradbury’s, “Fahrenheit 451.” Bradbury’s science fiction novel is about a futuristic society that believes that knowledge and insight are unnecessary and bring danger into the world. Therefore, books are burnt to “protect” people, and to…

Is there still bravery among humanity? Do people still possess such? When can you say one is brave enough to face life? Are there any specific things that can prove that one can be called brave? Are you one of them? Bravery or being brave is often seen as an act of being strong enough to face any challenges that awaits us. We see people as brave when they are more than willing to sacrifice. We associate the act of being brave to being a hero. Brave is not merely an action itself, but it is more…

Edgar Allan Poe was a marvelous writer. Neil Gaiman describes Poe as “a working writer who kept himself alive with his words” (Poe xiii). Most of Poe’s stories and poems are works of horror, but not the kind of horror most would think of. Jeffery Goddin says that “his horror, rather than revolving around vampires, werewolves, and the like, is usually psychological horror, bred from a character’s obsession and paranoia” (Dziemianowicz xiii). Gaiman said, “He was vain, envious, good-hearted,…