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- 191: Sylvia Plath Compare To Esther
- ... father. He has done so by not being there to give her a better image of what a good husband is. Similar to Steven Gould Axelrod, one could argue that "Daddy" is a work of fiction. He states that "Plath herself introduced it on the BBC as the opposite of confession, as a constructed fiction… since its details depart freely from the facts of her biography"(DM, pg. 63). While the fact that the poem does not follow her biography remains a valid point, it is easy to see otherwise ... with her anger over her father's death in the poem. The reader easily finds the poem to be an expression of her inability to come to terms with her father's death. The only fiction in the poem is that her father was a Nazi. Plath remembers him as having similar characteristics, but he was not involved in the war. Consequently, the reader must conclude that, "Daddy is a ...
- 192: Conjure Woman
- ... of great creativity, then fall into times when he wouldn't write at all. With all of Philip K. Dick's ups and downs, he continues to be highly acclaimed in the realm of science fiction, as one of the greatest writers of his style. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, is a science fiction novel, based in the year 2021. The story revolves around a bounty hunter named, Rick Deckard. In these times, the world is covered with debrie from a nuclear fall out. In turn, other colonies were ... the life of a bounty hunter, the reader gets an in-depth view of the time and situation. Another solid aspect to the story is its use of what defines the story as a science fiction, the realistic material such as the, animals, television and the use of San Francisco, an actual city. The other fictional items used are extremely believable, such as hover cars, androids, lazer guns, the idea ...
- 193: Ray Bradbury
- ... 1947 Bradbury married Marguerite McClure, and that same year he gathered much of his best material and published them as Dark Carnival, his first short story collection. His reputation as a leading writer of science fiction was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950 (published in England under the title The Silver Locusts), which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, the constant ... their efforts by the gentle, telepathic Martians, the eventual colonization, and finally the effect on the Martian settlers of a massive nuclear war on Earth. As much a work of social criticism as of science fiction, The Martian Chronicles reflects some of the prevailing anxieties of America in the early atomic age of the 1950's: the fear of nuclear war, the longing for a simpler life, reactions against racism and ... Award in 1954, the Aviation-Space Writer's Association Award for best space article in an American Magazine in 1967, the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. His animated film about the history of flight, Icarus Montgolfier Wright, was nominated for an academy award, and his teleplay of The Halloween Tree won an Emmy. Ray Bradbury's writing ...
- 194: Red Sails To Capri
- ... this book. Thomas L. Clancy, Jr. was born on the 12th of April 1947, he is married and lives in Maryland, USA. Clancy's novels can be classified as Military-Techno-Thrillers. He has written fiction and non-fiction books, Rainbow Six is a fiction book. As for other titles, well there are just to many to list, in total 23. Some books that he has written are The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, ...
- 195: Comparison Of The Film Beloved
- ... Beloved was made in the twentieth century to teach its audiences about slavery in the hope of preventing similar occurrences in modern times. Frederick Douglass account of slavery comes from his own life. Beloved is fiction; it is historical fiction, but fiction nonetheless. I personally feel that Fredrick Douglass account is a truer representation of slavery mainly because it is from his own experience. Beloved is based upon a book that is based on research done ...
- 196: Genetic Cloning and Frankenstein
- ... Shelley’s way of suggesting to society that they could all become victims of scientists like Frankenstein, who unnaturally create potential monsters. Until recently, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” was viewed as a brilliant work of fiction, now the messages in her writings warrant substantial consideration from a bioethical standpoint. The act of scientists breaching the domain of human creation is no longer confined to fiction. The bioethical dilemma that haunted Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s work of fiction has ironically found it’s way into modern science. Geneticists are now on the verge of extracting the secret of creating life from human DNA specimens in hopes to artificially recreate human beings. This ...
- 197: Chicano Literature
- ... by some of the world's finest authors: Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Anne Rice, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, Upton Sinclair, Alex Haley, etc. I suddenly realized that I have never read a work of fiction, or a play by a Chicano or a Chicana. The only two plays I have ever read in Spanish were not written by a Chicanos: Boda de Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca (in which I ... of playing the part of Alonzo). I put away the Whitman poem and became lost in my own critical thought. Was there not a single Chicano or Chicana that had ever written a work of fiction? I went to the library's computerized card catalogue system to investigate this matter. Of course I found Chicano fictional writers; however, not as many as I wish I would've found. And so I ... Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, which was originally printed in 1991 and was the recipient of such awards: PEN center USA Was Literary Award (1991), Lannen Literary Award (1991), QPB New Voices Award in Fiction (1992), and the Anisfield Wolf Award (1992). Cisneros also wrote My Wicked Ways in 1980 and The House on Mango Street in 1984, which in 1985 was a recipient of a Before Columbus Foundation ...
- 198: The Reality Of Huckleberry Fin
- Huckleberry Finn is a book that contains elements of romantic and realistic fiction; even though it contains both these elements, it is a book on realistic fiction, and that is how it was written to be. Mark Twain used historical facts and data to make this story realistic, it used situations that would normally happen in the time the novel takes place ... do the same, making it a realistic situation. Yes, Huckleberry Finn contains elements of romanticism and elements of realism. But throughout this book, the element of realism prevails, and thus making this book a realistic fiction novel. These examples I have given should be just enough to prove this point of realism over romanticism. These two elements do coexist, but romanticism isn't a strong enough element to categorize the ...
- 199: Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part of Our Past
- ... to learn about something we rent a movie about it or watch a show on it. No one reads books anymore just for the fun of it, or so they can read the paranormal, science fiction, horror, classics, fiction or non-fiction novel that surround our world. If we want to see stuff like that we will watch “The X-Files” or rent a Stephan King movie. Actually when you read books there is much more ...
- 200: Children Stories
- ... like two stars"(p.221) giving a magical image to the novel. Strong and imaginative characters are needed in any book to bring out the story the author is trying to tell whether it is fiction or non-fiction. Roald Dahl also presents many imaginative devices that don't exist but that he is capable of making sound so real. To begin with, in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, each one of the five ... Roald Dahl is capable of using his wild and imaginative ideas to create a wonderful children's novel. He has incorporated imaginative situations, characters and devices, making his novels exciting from cover to cover. Good fiction novels should contain imaginative situations, characters and devices because it is an entertaining way for the author to connect with the reader.
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