Nonfiction

Life Is So Short “Just be happy, and if you can’t be happy, do things that make you happy or do nothing with the people who make you happy.” (Earl). Nonfiction is a way to tell history that can be engaging. It shows thoughts or events that have happened in the past. When people read a nonfiction book, the writing captures them and allows them a realistic view of the topic. it also, shows that vast or miniscule events come and go and not to dwell on the past. This Star Won’t Go Out by Esther…

In his critical analysis of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," Douglas Shcaak takes pains to analyze the author's use of narrative devices as well as moral dilemmas. Examining Shcaak's work reveals that his analysis is organized with a specific goal in mind: to cast doubt on the veracity of Capote's account of events and characters. He focuses on quotation marks and characterization, especially as they relate to Perry Smith. Shcaak establishes credibility for the subsequent analysis by introducing…

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Transmuted America is a 2003 non-fiction book by Erik Larson. Mr. Larson relishes to embroider the past. So he relentlessly fuses history and regalement to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel, consummate with abundant cross-cutting and foreshadowing. Mundanely these might be alarming tactics, but in the case of this material they do the artifice. Mr. Larson has indicted a dynamic, enveloping book filled…

and 1950 's. Even though The Crucible, We Aren 't Superstitious and, Are You Now, or Were You Ever? are about two different eras, hundreds of years apart, each of their conflicts and themes are very similar to one another. The Crucible and the nonfiction essays share the theme of reputation. This theme causes people to act in a way to protect or destroy their reputation. In the beginning of the Crucible, a character…

Collection Policy Collection development responsibilities have been delegated to the Collection Services Manager in collaboration with the Library Director. Together among a highly skilled staff of catalogers and access and content specialist, Blue Ash’s Collection continues to grow at a healthy rate. Blue Ash stands apart in the library system in part for its strong graphic novel collection for both juvenile and young adults. The young adult graphic novel is a collection with 500 graphic…

In this Action Research paper, I am going to discuss the demographics and break down of my classroom library, and the possible deficits it presents to the students who populate it. This is significant because the more a child is exposed to a rich and dynamic library of books the better he or she has to be fluent in both reading and writing (Tompkins, 2015). It is also essential to to remember that a lack of culturally variegated texts may have an negative impact on children. I will first…

Truman Capote is one of the most famous authors in the modern era, one his most famous works being In Cold Blood. Capote wrote this book in a rather unique way. Though he was present for many of the events that took place and might be considered crucial to the way certain things played out, he did not include himself in the story so as to make it less autobiographical and more of a novel. Regardless of the lack of Capote's presence in the story itself, it is clear in certain places of the book…

jackers. I like it when books have fictional creatures and other creative aspects because it makes the story original. Another book I also enjoyed reading is The Boy On The Wooden Box. Something I liked about the book was that it was nonfiction. I liked the fact it’s nonfiction because it was informational and contained real experiences. Also, since the author of the book is the main character himself, I felt that I was able to comprehend Leon’s character…

Galileo Galilei, the astronomer famed and scorned for his unorthodox ideas about a heliocentric galaxy once said “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Candace Fleming, in her nonfiction work, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, strives to reveal the truth about the truth about what happened to the Romanov family, a puzzling piece of history surrounded by controversies and rumors. Many concerned parents…

Czeslaw Milosz is a poet and has been awarded many prizes for literature. Milosz is looked up to by other poets. He has also written nonfiction books. These nonfiction books reflect his experiences during the Holocaust. The Holocaust plays a part in why he views man as destructive. He is very respected when it comes to Polish literature. His poems have been translated into English by other poets who respect his work. Czeslaw Milosz’s poem “Unde Malum” is a deep poem reflecting his views on how…