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    Fiction There are many different types of fiction. Many people confuse these different types of fiction and classify fiction books into incorrect groups. To help better understand fiction they would have to know what types of fiction there are and what they’re like. These types of fiction include realistic fiction‚ science fiction‚ and historical fiction. Realistic fiction refers to stories that might really happen‚ stories set in a particular time and that happen to a particular people. 

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    health‚ so I rarely do it‚ only when I’m really bored or don’t want to do anything else. Another of my hobby is playing computer games. The one I like most is lines 98. Ocassionally‚ I borrow comics to read. Among all the comics that I have read‚ Detective Conan is the one that I read over and over again. I spend most of my free time indoors‚ but sometimes‚ I go out with my friends. We visit some famous places in Ha Noi‚ such as Ho Guom lake‚ Thu Le zoo‚ The temple of literature. At weekend‚ we visit

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    Detective Eliza Graham quickly read over the Police Report and proceeded to interrogate the first suspect – Jonathon Miller. He was an old‚ pudgy man with friendly eyes and a large‚ distinguishing nose. She could hardly see how this could be the man responsible for murder‚ but looks can be deceiving. ‘So‚’ the man said a little too cheerfully for Eliza’s liking. ‘Would you be able to tell me what all this—’ he waved a hand to the closed file Eliza was holding‚ ‘—is about? I’m afraid I have an important

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    intimate and forecasting of the complexities in human activity‚ especially the frequent simplicity in that activity. Not interchangeable with mere “calculus” or “logic” (Shadow 52).” C. Auguste Dupin is the character model for Auguste Duponte. The detective in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue‚” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ C. Auguste Dupin‚ is capable of ratiocination which allows him to solve the Rue Morgue murders. Auguste Duponte is recruited in “The Poe Shadow‚” by Matthew Pearl‚ by the narrator‚ Quentin Clark

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    defensiveness of the neglected spinster who cries out that she has no use for men.” (Sayers‚ 49) And in addition to being married‚ Mary commits murder‚ and does so multiple times. Expected social perception does not expect a woman to be main character of a detective novel‚ let alone be a killer‚ but Sayers’ portrays Mary as a dominant figure that is capable of murder and does so with malicious intent. as a masculine‚ and dominant figure that is capable of murder. Using Mary‚ Sayers demonstrates that women‚ and

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    write using a sort of general template for that genre or they can develop the novel with a personal priority in mind. The historical fiction novel‚ Beloved‚ by Toni Morrison is written outside of the conventions of the genre‚ although it is‚ yet a well written novel. In the novel Beloved‚ the author‚ Toni Morrison‚ deviates from the conventions of historical fiction as she narrates the plot through the perspective of different characters with an objective of allowing the reader to experience the plot

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    Edgar Allen Poe’s: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story‚ "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"‚ a classic detective story is played out in a seedy Paris suburb. The story begins as the narrator meets Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin‚ a poor but well-read young man. As they become close friends‚ they live together in seclusion‚ departing only briefly each evening to take introspective strolls along the dark Paris streets. Soon both the reader and the narrator begin to see Dupin’s

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    Holmes Character essay The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes‚ written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ is a book‚ composed of the many adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson‚ which introduces various crimes to be solved by Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr.Watson.Throughout the stories we read‚ “A Scandal in Bohemia”‚ “The Adventure of the Red-Headed League”‚“The Man with a Twisted Lip”‚ “The Musgrave ritual” and “The Final Problem” depicts Sherlock Holmes’s existence and his perspectives

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    In the short story “The Shoemaker” written by Roch Carrier‚ there are significant symbols appear throughout the whole story. The three main symbols are the boy‚ his shoes‚ and the atomic bomb. The author represents a mini-sized world to us by using these symbols. The boy represents the innocent‚ naïve and immature characteristics like many of us today. He believes in himself‚ he thinks that it’s the shoemaker who fixed his old shoes even though his mom’s statement is different. He knows “during

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    Science fiction is a genre that is based on “imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes” that can challenge and disrupt traditional perspectives of morality and behaviour. Each science fiction text explores but one of the numerous possibilities of the speculative and extrapolative ideas‚ with the author’s own views being placed throughout the text both intentionally and unintentionally. The genre concerns itself with the understanding of both

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