most‚ was the author’s mention of minute details. The author does not give a picture of the slums of Kolkata from far but rather presents a realistic picture with its congested dwellings‚ dirty drains‚ narrow footpaths‚ people’s quarrels and fights‚ their feasts and festivals‚ etc. The beauty of narration becomes all the more thrilling when it is realistic and true. No wonder why the book has won so much international acclaim. Secondly‚ the superb presentation of the scenes‚ characters and episodes
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Library Book Report Title: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Author: Ann Brashares Publisher: Random House Children’s Books © Copyright Date: 2003 # of pages: 336 Genre: Realistic Fiction Summary: Tibby Tomko-Rollins‚ Lena Kaligaris‚ Carmen Lowell and Bridget Vreeland have been best friends since childhood. In the beginning of their summer vacations‚ they find a pair of jeans that fits each one of them perfectly. They decide to share the pants as a magic symbol of their friendship
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Fact or Fiction? Total Recall Paper PHIL 2003-013 Usually at least once in a lifetime a person will question whether a dream was reality or not. It is rare to think “I am just dreaming” in a dream. In the 1990s movie Total Recall the director‚ Paul Verhoeven‚ attempts to illustrate the puzzling question of “what is reality and what is not?” With Arnold Schwarzenegger in this futuristic flick‚ the director cleverly confuses the audience about what is “real” in the movie‚ making one doubt each
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Fiction Essay English 102: Literature and Composition Summer 2011 MLA Style Perseverance Played Out “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and “The Most Dangerous Game” In D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ the reader is given insight into the lives of two males: Sanger Rainsford in Most Dangerous Game‚ and a boy‚ Paul‚ in Rocking-Horse. Equally Lawrence and Connell are wickedly clever in their details‚ characteristics
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fantastical journey can be a big illusion or joke‚ where the reality is a series of mundane disappointments or repeated errors. European writers tend to present and then undermine the fantastic‚ whereas Americans use the fantasy to explore matters. Realistic – writer knows the realities‚ the places and characters. Writer doesn’t judge anyone. (Limited point of view) Naturalistic – shows true picture of society‚ has a thesis that he has to prove (people behave like animals‚ they have sex drives etc.)
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I’m going to write about the form‚ structure and style of The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton. First‚ Virginia Hamilton chose to use mysterious‚ historical fiction in The House of Dies Drear. Two of the ingredients she used are: Cliffhangers and metaphor. In chapter 15‚ Virginia Hamilton used cliffhanger to end the chapter‚ when they were about to have a quarrel with the Darrows. They warned them not to come close to the house of Dies Drear nor Pluto’s cave‚ since the Darrows wanted the
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Podmolik‚ Mary Ellen. ‘Area’s median home price up 1.7%: Number of homes sold rises 22% from year earlier’‚ Chicago Tribune‚ 20 July 2012. The price elasticity of demand in Chicago real estate market The newsletter reported the important data of Chicago real estate market in June 2012. Generally speaking‚ this market was experiencing great ascending trends during the short term before the data was released. The specific data is summarized in the following graphics. The market of Chicago real
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In the wake of climate change and ecological deterioration‚ many science fiction with a dominant theme of climate change has been emerging in literature‚ and consequently in literary studies. These emergences have given way to a whole new genre of literature‚ cli-fi as in climate change fiction‚ which pursues the issue of climate change and global warning as a philosophical or existentialist problem within a fictional situation. Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Sacred Space” and Lydia Millet’s “Zoogoing”
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heard Robert calling him that. After the narrator failed to describe the cathedral to Robert‚ his legs “felt like they didn’t have any strength in them” (Fiction 100‚ 131). Feeling powerless in front of a blind man‚ the narrator lost all confidence. It was Robert who encouraged the narrator: “Terrific. You’re doing fine” (Fiction 100‚ 132). The dialogues between the three major characters reveal their relationship and their change of relationship. At first‚ the narrator was irritated
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frame the period of Victorian literature‚ it is commonly accepted that it was the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) that saw the novel emerge and flourish‚ all the more that the 1937 was the year when Dickens’ Oliver Twist‚ the first major work of fiction. The first readers of both‚ Dickens and Eliot were not conscious they lived in the ‘Victorian period’. They thought that this was a modern era marked with turbulent transition. However‚ the most crucial writers of the period grew up in the earlier
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