Stranger than Fiction

“A Perfect Circle” is a story that sheds light on the idea of reality vs. illusion. Through the narrator’s interpretation of the setting, the characters’ and their relationship it makes an important notation towards the theme. Altogether, “A Perfect Circle” is a story that suggests how an individual’s perception of reality can be thwarted due to illusions which can lead to delusions and heartbreak. The story implies how certain events in life can force our grasp on reality to shift and cause us…

Random House, “was sued and had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and thousands to readers who felt deceived” (Goldsmith, Uncreative Writing). In the new printings of the book, there is a disclaimer stating that it is a work of fiction. This is an example of the anxieties experienced while writing an accurate and truthful book. In Eckhoff’s case, some of the entries written about him were false information as the authors did not know who he was and could therefore not write…

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by Ken Kesey is, “A classic book that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time” according to its back cover. A statement like that put this book on my list of books to read at some point, and this seemed like the perfect time to do so. I struggled to stay interested throughout both the book and the movie, and I’m not sure if that was because of the subject or just the drawn out way it was told. As far as the movie goes (and the book for that…

One of the major themes in Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is time. Humbert Humbert, the narrator is trying to go back to his childhood of a young love, furthermore he wants to keep recapturing the moment, he doesn’t understand how time works. Humbert keeps falling back in time to his childhood days, furthermore he is painting a picture of this beautiful young girl, his dream girl Lolita. We also see Humbert coming back into reality, present time of what actually is going on, in addition to the…

Toni Morrison said that “The past is more infinite than the future… It's avoiding it, deceiving ourselves about it that paralyzed growth. This quote talks about how thinking about the past, pretending things could be different are what causes someone to never escape their own guilt about what they've done. This sentiment is particularly evident in Beloved, it is one of its main themes in the book. Both the characters of Sethe and Paul D had lives filled with suffering and hardship. In order to…

The plotlines and settings of The Iron Trial and Revan, when compared, couldn’t be further apart on the fictional spectrum, but the two main characters are a different story. On the surface, Revan and Callum don’t seem very alike in personality, but they share many important traits that serve as the basis of their motives. The biggest ailment the protagonists in both of the books suffer from is amnesia, though they have it for different reasons. This plays a huge part when it comes to defining…

Valcourt, Quebec is a very snow heavy place in Canada. The roads were never plowed in rural areas like Valcourt back in the 1920’s, making outside travel during the winter impossible. Growth was slow, towns were very spread apart, and illness during these periods spelled death with the inability to travel. What if one machine could change all of those things and more? Joseph Armand Bombardier thought so when he created the first snowmobile in 1922. More so, the snowmobile was the largest bolster…

bridge between our world and hers, and allows us a glimpse into a quite other sort of mind." (xviii) Grandin's writings offers readers a rare and luminously clear account of her internal world. Her mind seems to function in distinctly different ways than those of non-autistics, and these differences are both rewarding and debilitating. However, this book is not just a personal autobiography, but aims to educate readers on key components of the entire spectrum of Autism. For that reason,…

How did Different People Influence Eilis’ return to Brooklyn In the book Brooklyn By Colm Toibin Eilis, the character that this story focusses on, returned to her home of Ireland to support her mother after the death of her sister Rose. Her mother and friends expected that she would be staying in Ireland but instead she decided to go home to Brooklyn because she was influenced by the people in her life such as her husband Tony. She was also influenced to return because of her job opportunities…

While focusing on how to develop my voice for my character, I’ve decide to compare two novels, Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. While I read these two novels I decided to use Philip Lopate’s book To Show and To Tell as a reference for the way to tell a story with double perspective. In Junot Diaz novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar we are introduced a third person point of view narrator who later appears in the work himself telling a…