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The male parent of Science Fiction, a airy Gallic novelist, a short narrative author, and a playwright. This is the kernel of the adult male we know today as Jules Verne. In his voluminous Hagiographas he foresaw a figure of scientific devices and developments that were more than a century in front of his clip….

Chapter 1: “You Don’t Have to Cut My Foot Off, Do You? ”- In this chapter Sampson is trying to be like the older boys, he hangs with his older brother and his friends pretending to be tough. They go try to fix the benches in the park. Sampson ends up holding a brick which…

Don’t Care High – SummaryThe novel Dont Care High was written by Gordan Korman. This novel, as well as other novels he wrote were based partly on his experiences in high school, where he says, “the only way to get through high school alive was by laughing”. This novel relates to teenagers about high school…

Harry Potter’s Trials and Tribulations Introduction Coming of age stories have been a part of pop culture for centuries and it doesn’t seem like they will disappear any time soon. A popular coming of age story for today’s generation is the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter is a young orphaned boy who learns on his…

Experiencing the aftermath of being stranded on an island with no civilization is an incomprehensible situation for a group of children. William Golding effectively portrays the terrifying nature of this scenario in his novel, Lord Of The Flies, by utilizing symbols to depict the challenges they face. Two prominent symbols, the fire and the conch,…

Reverend Hale unquestionably resembles that of the fictional character Dr. Victor Frankenstein due to both of the characters quests for something too idealistic and complex to possibly accomplish. Though the tone, style, and plot are of two completely different concepts, further investigation reveals that two of the main characters in each book are extremely similar….

For this book report I read the Strange Case Of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger. This book is about a group 6th graders who believe in a origami Yoda that tells the future and give advice about various topics. There are multiple characters that have problems that are resolved by origami Yoda. There are three…

It was 30 years this month that Charles Saunders’ first Imaro novel hit the street as a DAW paperback. By then I had been reading Imaro stories for five years, having read my first Imaro yarn in Gene Day’s Dark Fantasy magazine. A number of those early gems from DF were incorporated into this first Imaro volume. We…

Now that El Borak has finally gotten the volume he so richly deserves, and with Dark Agnes getting her due soon, two other Howard heroes are overdue for new, complete collections: Cormac Mac Art and Wild Bill Clanton. The most recent collection of Cormac Mac Art stories was published 15 years ago as part of…

The play addresses the real issues that were evident in the medieval era by employing an inversion of the Nativity story. Four character descriptions found in the play are as follows; Make: Make was a local thief who was already known by the shepherds as a sheep-thief. He denied being a thief but rather a…