English 101O Dr. Willis October 6‚ 2014 Rise of the Future for the Science Fiction Genre “Get your stinking paws off of me‚ you damn dirty ape‚” yelled Dodge concerned about if Ceasar was going to hurt him or abide by him like most animals. After being whipped across the body by the stun gun many times‚ Ceasar yelled angrily back at Dodge‚ “No!” What is this? This can not be‚ apes can not speak! While Dodge was trying to gather all of his thoughts together to figure out what had just happened
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repression‚ Chopin reveals in her writing of “The story of an Hour”. In this short story Kate Chopin brings the reader to ask him or herself many thought provoking questions such as “Does love always lead to happiness?” through her use of the elements of fiction. Love does not always lead to happiness. In the opening line of the short story‚ Chopin already begins to use irony when she writes‚ “knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble…” (1) This normal seeming sentence has a much deeper
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Pulp Fiction Throughout Quinton Tarantino’s horribly graphic movie‚ Pulp Fiction‚ women are treated and referred to as inferior to men. Both the women characters and the dialogue in the movie suggest that women have to be taken care of and protected by men. Even the most powerful of the women characters in the movie‚ Mia‚ is looked after by one of her husband’s thugs while he is out of town. On the other hand‚ Tarantino has the complete antithesis of Mia thrown in the movie to make women
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One of the main aspects of a science-fiction story is its setting. The time and place notifies the reader that the story is indeed a fantasy‚ and may have unordinary topics. The time of a science-fiction story can either be the past‚ present‚ or future. What makes fantasy novels unique is that it may take place in the very distant future without question. The location of the story may also be very distant‚ for example it may be in another galaxy. The place may also be far-fetched. In other
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Pashkov House 09/09/2013 20:00 Art of fiction conspectus Novelists: DM - David Mitchell EW - Evie Wyld AI - Alexander Ilichevsky What is key to the art of fiction? [DM] This is an enormous question. St.Augustin’s expression comes to mind: “I know exactly what time is until someone asks me to explain it”. I feel the same way about this question. However I would say there are 5 key elements in the art of fiction: * Plot: what happens in the story * Character: who it happens
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that no one could have made that up. Things that happen in real life can be more unbelievable than those an author makes up. Fiction demands reasoning and truth does not. Fiction has to abide by more expectations in order to keep a reader in a believable state more so than real life simply because real life is has unexplainable exceptions. We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind; such as mass merchandising and advertising. Life is like living inside a gigantic novel. For the writer in particular
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Oral Book Report: Realistic Fiction Outline due May 11 Presentations: May 14 -18 Option 1: You will be creating and presenting your book report to the class using PowerPoint or a similar program. There will be a total five content requirements. For each requirement you will make a series of slides with text‚ pictures‚ and other tools that will help you to convey pertinent information about the novel you selected. Instructions on using PowerPoint will be given in class. Presentations
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1. Henry James’s theory of the novel‚ introduced in his critical essay The Art of Fiction‚ has been considered as “playing an important part in the definition of the new conventions of the modernist novel” (Dobrinescu‚ 203). The theory’s central point or main concern has to do with‚ as Hopkins considers‚ “taking the novel (and‚ consequently‚ theoretical discussion of the novel) seriously”. For James‚ the novel corresponds to the ultimate art form and it should have a position the community as such
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movie that is no exception to this is Pulp Fiction. The amount of style in the movie could become a college dissertation‚ but I will try to give the best examples of style. This ranges from the use of doorways as a frame for the shot‚ to the use of 70’s music as the background for this film. Overall‚ in my opinion‚ the style of Pulp Fiction is one of the main reasons the movie has been so popular for this amount of time. Mise-en-scene in Pulp Fiction is seen throughout the movie‚ but what fits
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Questions on “After the Sirens” 1. When did the air-raid sirens begin? What was the husband’s initial reaction to the sound of the sirens? 2. What reason is offered for a nuclear attack on this particular city? 3. How did the baby respond to the nuclear blast? 4. Why does the husband instruct his wife to lie down in the corner (of the north and west walls)? Explain. 5. The Army Survival Unit insists that they throw away their food‚ water‚ and outer clothing before they get into
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