Nonfiction

The Devil in the White City is a nonfiction book that is divided into four different parts. The last part takes the reader into two perspectives. One perspective is of Daniel Burnham who was the architect that built the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair. The book describes of the obstacles that Daniel and his partner John Root had to overcome. These obstacles include the two of them having to figure out an attraction more spectacular than the Eiffel Tower. Also, Daniel was left building the fair by…

Andrew Kim Period 4 English 2 Honors Non-fiction Reading Record Title: David and Goliath Author: Malcolm Gladwell Date of Publication: October 1, 2013 Genre: Nonfiction Information about the person or subject’s place in history: Biblical figure Author Background: Malcolm Gladwell is a non-fiction book writer as well as a canadian journalist. As a book writer, he has published five books so far and David and Goliath being one of them. Point of View and Author Bias: As it is from a biblical…

Immigration and illegal immigration are two separate things. Both of which are often misused when discussing immigration reform. According to an article written by Micah Issitt and Andrew Walter we find the definition of these terms; “Immigration refers to the movement of persons from one nation or region to another with the purpose of seeking permanent residence. While illegal immigration is defined as an individual who remains in a nation beyond the limits of his or her legally granted time…

For most of my life, I struggled with an intense lack of passion. I guess, really, nothing captivated me the way I wished something would. I grew up envying the way my sister spent hours on her art, or the way my brother talked about health science. For most of my life, I just existed: floating in this sort of passionless limbo. No spark that Mary would say she felt while drawing. No feelings of anticipation, excitement, or satisfaction that David would attribute to pursuing nursing. A…

Literature EOPA This year I did free reading and I would say that that was a great idea for me since I have been so busy. I started the year with reading LGBT+ books and ended the year with starting the divergent series. Throughout the year I had many ups and downs and I realized I read more when I am going through a low point and not as much while going through a high point. The first book I read was about a boy realizing he was gay and being christian he faced a lot of hate and…

Have you ever read a book and then watched a movie about it? Is it ever the exact same? No, it is never the same because the movie always has to spruce it up a bit. If the play was exactly like the trial, it would be a documentary. So the play has to put dramatic scenes and funny lines into it to make it more interesting. That is what Inherit the Wind did with the Scopes Trial. The play based itself on the trial but made a lot of changes to it, to make it more interesting. The similarities…

present day America than that of the Puritans. The beginning of the colonial period wasn’t only capable of creating a functional society in the new world, they also had a huge passion for works of literature that consisted of many genres such as nonfiction history stories, fictional tales with a lesson, and also persuasive stories meant to scare the community. Many of the stories written back then, or any important documents, are still being viewed today and told to represent the similar lessons…

Mental and Social Destruction in Fahrenheit 451 For decades, technology has been displacing books and literature as the world’s main source of ideas, entertainment, and information. The radio and television have captured the attention of people all over the world since their debut in the early twentieth century. In his novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury explored what would happen if this technological fascination continued unchecked. He made the setting of his novel very similar to the real…

Outbreak is giving information about the deadly disease, Ebola. Even though both are diseases they have differences and similarities in both. Both diseases are different but, so are the articles. In “Outbreak” it has the writing of a nonfiction format and “The Masque of the Red Death” has a format of realistic fiction. Edgar Allen Poe introduced us characters like Prince Prospero and he has a storyline. Poe’s story flows when he talks about the symptoms and facts that you don’t even…

transform the attitude towards journalism, which was that technical attributes of the field are too much trouble when an author can simply invent it all, Capote writes In Cold Blood to an intended audience of literary critics in order to introduce the nonfiction novel. For example, while a large portion of the novel is direct quotes from various interviews, there are accurate, multi-dimensional descriptions contrived from a simple witness. Such as when Nancy returns with her animals from a…