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- 1011: Mark Twain
- ... Twain speaks best about the American experience through is unique literary voice, and through his classic writing techniques. His humorous writing tone, accomplished by over exaggeration, brought him to be one of the finest American fiction writers of his time. Regional dialect and slang were just a few of his techniques used in capturing the local color of the United States, and they helped win his way into the hearts of ...
- 1012: Exile And Illusion In Araby
- ... contributions, since when does a Priest make enough money to have an extensive will, wonders the narrator? I also believe the Araby bazaar was a symbol of the church as Cleanth Brooks stated [in Understanding Fiction, 1947] "The quest for the father, for the church, has been thwarted by reality. The bazaar turns out to be just as cold, as dark, and as man-made as the gloomy house of the ...
- 1013: Essay On Book, An Angel At My
- ... the book (Min. 750 words). From the "down the line" to the "first ocean voyage and it's running smoothly". For someone who is not familiar with Janet Frame biography it sounds almost as a fiction, but for everyone who had read the novel it is living history, proof that there is no limit in ordinary human life. Janet Frame's "journey" had begun on day of her arrival in a ...
- 1014: Ernest Hemingway
- ... with Agnes who left Henry for an Italian Army officer. It seems to me that the differences between the two men were only surface differences. They allowed Hemingway to call the novel a work of fiction. Had he written an autobiography the book would probably not have been well-received because Hemingway was not, at that time, a well known author. Although Hemingway denied critics' views that A Farewell to Arms ...
- 1015: Kurt Vonnegut Sarcasm And Blac
- ... world with definite answers (Kennard 1). A significant part to Vonneguts books is the satiric and humorous qualities used to emphasize the serious points of his books. In the books, which are considered science fiction, contain wild black humor, which is uncommon amongst these types of books (Overview 1). His humor targets the futility of warfare, the negative effects of technology, and the potential of mans evil to cause ...
- 1016: Kurt Vonnegut--slaughterhouse
- ... any of us?" Bibliography Klinkowitz, Jerome. Slaughterhouse-Five Reforming the Novel and the World. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990. Lundquist, James. Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1977. Tanner, Tony. City of Words: American Fiction 1950-1970. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1971. Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five. New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc., 1969.
- 1017: Analysis -Compare And Contrast
- ... should start. In the story the Star the setting is on a rocket ship with astronauts and the setting in the necklace is old France in the late 1970's. The Star is a science fiction story while the necklace is an illustrative story. In the necklace the story is told from the third people point of view compared to the Star's point of view is in the first person ...
- 1018: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... and ultimately sealing the entire family's death. O'Connor makes the trite seem sweet, the humdrum seem tragic, and the ridiculous seem righteous. The reader can no longer use their textbook ways of interpreting fiction and human behavior because O'Connor is constantly throwing our assumptions back at us. Through out "A good man is hard to find" O'Connor reinforces the horror of self-love through her images. She ...
- 1019: David Copperfield
- ... was also supposed to 'never have been published on any account.' Later in chap 42 this condition is repeated: 'this manuscript is intended for no eyes but mine.' Of course this is part of the fiction, after all we are reading David's story ourselves when we reach this sentence. What is David Copperfield about? I pose myself this question to help illustrate how much of an autobiography this book really ...
- 1020: Invisible Man
- ... after the action of the novel, the unity of these two pieces should be a part of critical analyses. Ellison explains the action of the Prologue and the Epilogue in his essay "The Art of Fiction: An Interview:" The Prologue was written afterwards, really in terms of a shift in the heros point of view. I wanted to throw the reader off balance make him accept certain non-naturalistic effects ...
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