Slash fiction

Child labour is a major influence in the Andy Kissane’s short story, Good Rubbish. His piece challenges notions of working children in developing and industrialised countries, noting the harsh conditions in which children face in the twenty-first century. Jennifer Mills’s short story, Architecture, tells the story of a young, passionate architect that has an endless struggle of extended deadlines, and a sense of endless work. Both these short stories have thought-provoking differentiations, as…

Similarly, Albert Camus’ presents his character of Meursault as someone who is distant and out of touch with everybody else. This is illuminated through the narrator’s statement: “I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else” after the attorney allegedly didn’t understand him. The repetition of the fragment “like everybody else” implies that the narrator, Meursault is re-assuring himself that he is able to be a fully functioning member of society.…

What is the best book series ever? Immediately something comes to mind when questioning what the best book is, or at the very least it sparks thought of what you might consider to be the best. Varying aspects of books determine the quality of the work and the readers reception of it, from superficial aspects of interest as well as technical skills and development of a story. The realm of Middle Earth, as described in J. R. R. Tolkien 's pieces of work The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit…

The Expendables IV, A Case Study of Familial Ties in Frankenstein “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is a novel with a frame structure storyline strung between two characters. It begins with Walton’s letters to his sister, describing both his own journey and the story belonging to a stranded stranger he meets on the ice. The stranger’s name is Victor Frankenstein, and Walton’s letters quickly evolve into a narration of Frankenstein’s journey around the world chasing a demon which the scientist…

In the same first experience, she would see this as one of the greatest opportunities to have. She believed that you could be anything you wanted to be in America. Unlike Jing-Mei, her mother felt like this was the prodigy that Jing-Mei should live up to. She would have done anything to make sure Jing-Mei would become a piano genius. In the second experience, she expected her daughter to play astonishing, which was quite the opposite of what it really was. It was obvious that Jing-Mei’s mother…

The Power and the Symbolism, of Literature From the floating daggers appearing before Macbeth’s eyes to Piggy’s broken conch on the desolate island, great authors have used symbols in their literature in order to convey a larger theme about the book and about life itself. An author who perfectly does this is Graham Greene in his book, The Power and the Glory; a thrilling novel which tells the story of a priest who is trying to escape a corrupted state in Mexico. In addition to battling…

Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” argues that negative aspects of human behaviour can influence an individual’s perception and cloud the true meaning of a “good man” (O’Connor 94). Initially, the grandmother appears to be “lady” (O’Connor 92) with moral principles. However, a closer analysis of the story’s characterization and diction suggests the grandmother is not actually as she may appear. Displays of selfishness, moral superiority and racism contradict the behaviour of a…

In the short story Sonny’s Blues, by James Baldwin and short story The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce, the narrators included related events throughout the short stories. For instance the protagonists, Sonny and Farquhar, both dealt with family affairs and getting punished due to their past actions. However, the two short stories, both share similar, yet different symbols that connected to the protagonists, the theme of not everyone gets a second chance, which includes a style…

My topic for the signature assignment is on Bullying and I will be using excerpts from the jug of silver by capote. Bullying is an aggressive behavior among school aged children which effects a child’s behavior when they grow up. Bully’s target other “weak” students to lash out their anger to be superior to someone. Bullying usually includes actions such as making spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally which is detrimental to child psyche. In my signature assignment I will be…

Writing has always been something I have gotten enjoyment from; sentence structure and grammar being a particular interest of mine. In school, I was quick to catch mistakes in writings and was often praised for my ability to string stories together. Closely observing the techniques and styles of authors I admired, I’ve considered myself to be more of an effective emulator of writing than a true writer. Personally, writing has always been a vehicle for artistic expression, meaning I usually made…