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- 381: The Hobbit: Fantasy World Comparison To Our World
- ... talk with humans and dwarves in the book, which is not possible in real life. Beorn, a human who is able to change into other creatures at an instant, is an excellent example of such fiction. The dragon, Smaug, is the main adversary of the fourteen adventurers and is a type of creature that has long been used in fantasy writing. Although most of the characters' species are merely creations of ... trees, high, rocky mountains, and running rivers just as there are here on Earth. It is not possible that a story such as The Hobbit could occur in real life. However, I do believe that fiction can effectively teach us about reality. There are morals, lessons, and themes to be found within the text that can help us gain knowledge and live our lives more productively. Bilbo Baggins took a stand ...
- 382: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... of that time. She may have started believing that Christ was no longer enough of a priority to the people of her generation. If I look at the quote from O'Conner "My subject in fiction is the action in theory is held largely by the devil" I strongly feel she was talking about this particular story. O'Conner portrayed the grandmother as a God fearing woman and the "Misfit" as ... life you lead , or what kind of religion you accept if you push the issue it will blow-up in your face. Bibliograpy: Sylvan Barnet, Mortom Berman, William Burto, Marcia Stubbs Literature for Composition Essays, Fiction,Poetry,and Drama.
- 383: D.h. Lawrence
- ... teacher. His mother, the school teacher, was socially superior. She constantly tried to alienate her children from their father. The difference in social status between his parent s was a recurrent motif in Lawrence s fiction. David Herbert was ranked among the most influential and controversial literary figures of the Victorian Period. In his more than forty books, Lawrence celebrated his vision of the natural, whole human being, opposing the modern ... grew up. His most original poetry, published in Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, flowed from his own experience of nature in the southwestern U.S. and the Mediterranean region. Also, the most significant of his early fiction, Sons and Lovers, dealt with life in a mining town. Another wonderful example of the nature in D.H. Lawrence s writing would come from The Shadow in the Rose Garden. In this book, the ...
- 384: Virginia Woolf
- Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was a very powerful and imaginative writer. In a "Room of Ones Own" she takes her motivational views about women and fiction and weaves them into a story. Her story is set in a imaginary place where here audience can feel comfortable and open their minds to what she is saying. In this imaginary setting with imaginary ... can be broken, and to encourage more women to write. An example of this is in the very first line when Woolf writes, "But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one’s own(719)?" Why did Woolf start her story of like that? Maybe it was to show how different women really were from men ...
- 385: Understanding Holden Caulfield
- ... 89.5: 1065- 1074. Bungery, Hans. “Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye: The Isolated Youth and His Struggle to Communicate.” Die Nueren Sprachen 27.17: 208-217. Carpenter, Frederic I. “The Adolescent in American Fiction.” The English Journal 46.3: 313-319. Chugnov, Konstantin. “Soviet Critics on J.D. Salinger’s Novel, The Catcher in the Rye.” Soviet Literature 16:5: 182-184. Costello, Donald P. “The Language of The ... s The Catcher in the Rye.” Western Humanities Review 11.1: 188-190 Laser, Marvin and Norman Fruman. “Studies in J.D. Salinger: Reviews, Essays, and Critiques of The Catcher in the Rye and other Fiction.” New York: Odyssey Press, 1963. Lee, A. Robert. “‘Flunking Everything Else Except English Anyway’: Holden Caulfield, Mandel, Siegfried. “Salinger in Continental Jeans: The Liberation of Boll and Other Germans.” Critical Inquiry 6.2: 227-245 ...
- 386: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... in the accounting department of Nickel Plate Railroad Company. While in Cleveland Chesnutt studied Law. While in Cleveland Chesnutt supports his mother and father while supporting his own family. Chesnutt begins to write for Family Fiction. While working at Nickel Plate Railroad Company and writing for Family Fiction he continues to study law. A year later, he passes the Ohio Bar Exam and joins the law offices of Henderson, Kline, and Tolles. Chesnutt published The Goophered Grapevine in the Atlantic Monthly became the ...
- 387: A Separate Peace And A Real Wa
- ... 318. Greiling, Fraziska Lynne. "The Theme of Freedom in A Separate Peace." English Journal (NCTE), vol. 56, no. 9, December 1967, pp. 1269-1272. Halio, Jay L. "John Knowles's Short Novels." Studies in Short Fiction (Newberry College), vol. 1, no. 2, Winter 1964, pp. 107-112. McDonald, James L. "The Novels of John Knowles." Arizona Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, Winter1967, pp. 335-342. Raven, Simon. "No Time for War." The Spectator, vol. 212, no. 6827, May 1, 1959. p. 630. Weber, Ronald. "Narrative Method in A Separate Peace." Studies in Short Fiction (Newberry College), vol. 3, no. 1, Fall 1965, pp. 63-72. Witherington, Paul. "A Separate Peace: A Study in Structural Ambiguity." English Journal (NCTE), vol. 54, no. 9, December 1965, pp. 795-800. Wolfe, Peter ...
- 388: Hard Times: The Gradgrind System of Education
- ... surrounding world when a difficult problem requiring experience or maturity arises, as the Gradgrind system of education denies access to this knowledge. The Gradgrind system of education seems to wipe out any chance of any fiction or fantasy in the minds of the pupils. If Louisa or Tom happen to even have the slightest hint of fantasy or fiction it would be immediately be destroyed by their father who was a teacher of facts and facts alone. This is proved when Louisa and Tom were caught by their father peeping into a circus ring ...
- 389: Futures Truth
- For centuries, science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. Though ... man's best friend, the dog, against man, changes the role of public servants and changes the value of a person. Aldous Huxley also uses the concept of society out of control in his science fiction novel Brave New World. Written late in his career, Brave New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers to look at the role of science and literature in the ...
- 390: Alice Munro Open Secrets The A
- ... a combination of first person narrative and third person narrative. By using both narratives, Munro adds realism, some autobiographical information about her own life in the short stories, as the stories are also based on fiction as can it be found in earlier written short stories. Since many of her stories are based on the region in which she was born, the characters and narrators are often thought of as being ... writers could write in such a way that makes the reader feel like they are the narrator in a way. Most of her stories have often been compared to be more near autobiography than to fiction by some critics. It is true that much of her stories in some way or another do relate to her life, being that of her childhood or that of her later years. The point of ...
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