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History’s Role in Fiction – “The House on the Lagoon” and “Mambo Kings”
Fiction
Puerto Rico
In the novels the house on The House on the Lagoon and Mambo Kings, real historical facts and figures are used to give the stories a sense of realism. The authors of these novels use small pieces of history to make a realistic setting for their stories. The authors also use fictional historical events and…
Noughts and crosses
Fiction
Human Activities
noughts and crosses is a book written by Malorie Blackman. It is about a friendship between Sephy hadley, a cross and daughter of important cross, and Callum McGregor, a nought. This novel describes an alternative histoiry where humans evolved while Pangae was still intact. Without the barriers to exchange of domesticable animals, among other factors,…
An initiation in James Joyce’s story “Araby” Analysis
Fiction
Literature
Narration
Many times in life, people set unrealistic expectations for themselves or for other people. This is not a very wise thing to do because people often feel disappointed and embarrassed for getting their hopes up so high. One good example of this is the narrator in the short story “Araby” by James Joyce. In his…
William Somerset Maugham’s ‘the Lotus Eater’ Analysis
Fiction
Literature
In William Somerset Maugham’s short story ‘The Lotus Eater’, the character of Thomas Wilson is depicted through his encounter with the narrator. Wilson, an English bank manager who had retired, had chosen to live on the Italian island Capri and was subject to various speculations. However, disregarding these rumors, the author personally met him in…
White Elephants vs Chrysanthemums Analysis
Fiction
Hills Like White Elephants
Literature
The two short stories, The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck and Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway are similar in many ways, and are also different in several ways. Though the settings and plots vary, both are sufficient in capturing the importance of women. To begin, both stories take place in the early twentieth century,…
Science Fiction Movies Comparison
Fiction
Movie
Science
Week 4 Compare/Contrast “2001: A Space Odyssey & “The Sentinel” Science Fiction In the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, it deals with a series of encounters between humans and a mysterious black monoliths that is apparently effecting human evolution. In the short story “The Sentinel”, the story basically reverses the roll of the black monoliths….
Who Are Those Guys?
Fiction
Literature
That’s the question Butch repeatedly asks Sundance in the movie while the super-posse is hounding them. I felt like asking it myself as I perused some of REH’s horror stories, specifically “The Black Stone,” “The Thing on the Roof” and his Conrad-Kirowan fragment “The House,” in which his two occult investigators probe the early life…
Ponyboy and Johnny in the Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Crime
Fiction
Police
I finished The Outsiders about three weeks back and I’ve been waiting to write this essay with all the information about the book that I have stored up inside my head, To be honest, I personally don’t think that there Is much of a difference between the Greasers and the Socs as they are just…
“The Wright Hook” (or, the origin of “Spear and Fang”)
Fiction
Literature
Robert E. Howard
“Spear and Fang” is certainly not one of Howard’s best tales, but it is with this story that the young Texan became professionally published, in the July 1925 issue of a then fairly recent pulp magazine, Weird Tales. Weird Tales, which had begun publication in March 1923, claimed to be the first magazine entirely devoted…
The Graduate Motifs Analysis
Fiction
The Graduate
The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichol’s in 1967, is about Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who is stuck in the middle of his past and his future. Throughout the film, you learn that Benjamin is a lonely young man who is confused about what to do since he has graduated. During a graduation party…
| description | Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying people, events, or places in imaginary ways that are not strictly based on history or fact. In its most narrow usage, fiction applies to written narratives in prose and often specifically novels, as well as novellas and short stories. |
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| quotations | “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” “That’s what fiction is for. “Artists use lies to tell the truth.,It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. A man’s face is his autobiography. It’s never too late – in fiction or in life – to revise. A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. |
| information | Fiction Books: Dune, All the Light We Cannot See, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Beloved, The Song of Achilles, People We Meet on Vacation, Pride and Prejudice, The Judge’s List, The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel, Wolf Hall, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel, The Nightingale, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Road, All the Light We Cannot See, Dune, Beloved, Fictional stories: The LotteryShirley Jackson, 1948, Heart of darkness ; with, The Congo diary ; and, Up-river bookJoseph Conrad, 1899, Animal FarmGeorge Orwell, 1945, The Tell-Tale HeartEdgar Allan Poe, 1843, |
