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- 1371: Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences
- Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences Ray Bradbury, one of the most revered science-fiction authors, has had many things occur in his life which directly influenced his style of writing. In addition to influencing his style, these events also affected the content and theme of his individual works. Putting all of this aside, however, if these specific events did not occur in Bradbury's life ... and King Kong.' (Johnson 2). In reference to his one year in Tucson Arizona, Bradbury recalls It was one of the greatest years of my life because I was acting and singing in operettas and writing, beginning to write my first short stories.' (Johnson 2). After graduating from high school, Bradbury bought a typewriter and rented an office with the money saved from selling newspapers. While in his early twenties, Bradbury ... experiences for subject matter and theme, Bradbury discovered his own literary voice. Bradbury feels this process began in 1942 when he wrote The Lake, a story based on memories of childhood sweetheart (Mogen 27). This personal memory is raw stuff of writers. This is the stuff you go to, if you want to write original weird stories. We're told all this stuff, you know, to go to the literature ...
- 1372: Kurt Cobain
- ... to one of the most commonly known and most devistating suicides, of Kurt Cobain lead singer of the former band Nirvana. In his time of music he had the world in his hands. He used personal turmoil as fuel for great music. Suprisingly, he seemed unusually tortured by success. The author of Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana said, "He was a very bright, sweet, generous, and caring person ... a trailor with his mother. In result of this Cobain became extremely anti-social, he had few friends, and was beat up alot. On his 14th birthday Kurt recieved his first guitar. He had been writing poetry since he was 13, so he started using his poetry to write songs. He was in several bands throughout highschool, some of them were named Fecal Matter, Skid Row, Brown Cow, The Sellouts, and ... kicked off their first world tour. That's when Nirvana started getting huge. A friend of Kurt's, Daniel House said, "When Nirvana started catching on he was sort of bewildered. His music was so personal it amazed him when people came out in droves to hear it." Around the same time Kurt decided to get married to Courtney Love, lead singer of alternative band, Hole. Their marrage was in ...
- 1373: Lewis Carroll
- ... the Rabbit loses his gloves in the first chapter and it has been noted that Carroll was obsessed with carrying gloves with him while outdoors. The most obvious parallel between Carrolls life and his writing of Alice is the cherished relationship between him and Alice Liddell. She was the inspiration for his writing and for the sequel to the novel, Through the Looking Glass. A closer analysis of the character of Alice in the novel is her fluctuating sense of self. This is introduced in the first chapter ... experiences and unique character. His biggest stimulus in his life was Alice Liddell, the inspiration for the novel and reason it was recorded, which is accompanied by many other smaller influences such as his family, personal qualities, and education. In the words of the critic Derek Hudson: "The most remarkable think about Alice is that, though it springs from the very heart of the Victorian period, it is timeless in ...
- 1374: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a very talented man and was very fortunate in having the writing skill he did. Eugene was a man of the theater, he was born in it, lived in it, worked in it and wrote in it. (Henry, Eugene O'Neill, p.157.) O'Neill is referred ... Provincetown Players in 1920. In 1944 O'neill was infected with a debilitating muscular disease. But it was during these last 9 years of his life that he wrote his finest plays. O'Neill's writing career consisted of three periods, first it was realism- plays based on Eugenes personal experiences in life, the second was expressionistic- influenced by Friedreich Nietesche, psychologists Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Swedish playwright August Steindbers. And his third was realism- these were his later works, which critics consider ...
- 1375: To Kill A Mockingbird 5
- ... porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze . . ." (99). Harper Lee depicts Scout as strong and opinionated yet innocent and full of questions. This method of literature makes the tale more personal and it almost seems as though you are actually there. Utilizing the first person narrative writing style is a unique way to appeal readers. Another important writing style that informs the reader and giving them a vivid picture of what is actually happening is detailed description. Harper Lee realistically describes everything from characters to setting: Maycomb was an old town, but ...
- 1376: Jack London Stories, The Red O
- ... 16). He taunts the reader with unfulfilled information that subliminally encourages the reader to continue reading their selection. The tortuously baroque style, it s telling often proves an annoyance (Gorman Beauchamp 297-303). London s writing attributes are so deep in description and narration, the reader sometimes perceives the story-taking place with them included in the action. His ability to exclude just the very miniscule amount of information transforms his ... awaited them over the horizon, with either promise of prosperity or demise with a manifestation of dismay. Jack s stories have to do with as much from the unknown as it does in dealing with personal experiences. At the young age of thirty-two, London set sail for Hawaii and then the South Pacific. Where he encountered cannibals and inspiration for the later to be, The Red One . Mr. London s ... of the dark, in a flashing instant of fancy, he saw the vision of his head turning slowly, always turning, in the devil-devil house beside the breadfruit tree (Jack London 990) completes London s writing with the envied information harshly realized that without the prized object of existence or life, there is no information to be sought.
- 1377: Nevil Shute
- ... home and went to Oxford to finish his studies (Kunitz 1034). He had gained an interest in engineering and aeronautics after being influenced through the many years of war. He also had a craving for writing and describing things on paper, which would later help him in his studies, engineering career, and his future writings (Locker 396). Some years after graduating from Oxford he became Chief Engineer for the famous airship ... generation. Shute's adventures and the life of his characters are also from a mind of creativity. Shute's adventures consist of small town and small English family life. He uses his experience and his personal past in creating such scenarios. In Ordeal, a small English family is thrown out of their home in Southampton and forced to take refuge on a houseboat. This was drawn from Shute's early childhood experience during the Sinn Fein Rebellion (Locker 396). Shute spent many of his writing years in Australia, where he derived at his main source of information for some of his adventures, such as On The Beach, where the base of the action is located in Australia (Shute, On ...
- 1378: Lillian Hellman
- ... fears and thoughts of people, drawing on their most hideous features. In the encyclopedia Hellman is described as an American Dramatist, whose plays are distinguished for the forcefulness of their matter, usually a condemnation of personal and social evil. They are also notable for character development and expert construction (Encarta). These points come through clearly in both The Children's Hour and The Little Foxes. Interestingly, Hellman seemed to entitle these ... do this. Perhaps she has felt victimized throughout her life. Unable to make marriage and ordinary life work, Hellman became a bit of a wanderer. She seemed to find some sense of herself in her writing. Both The Children's Hour and The Little Foxes do hint of Hellman's despair and feelings of entrapment. Most of her characters in these plays are boxed into their situations and had been done ... but more importantly, Hellman was able to draw emotion and put it out for all to see. She was able to create conflict through characterization and not reliant on the plot entirely. Her skill at writing dialog was superior which rendered Lillian Hellman a playwright of significance. Lillian Hellman will be remembered for her intriguing life, but also for the interesting characters she was able to bring alive in her ...
- 1379: Maurice Sendak
- ... soon escapes, and in a messy escapade, saves the day by getting real milk in the batter. The story ends with Mickey falling back into bed. Dreams and imaginary worlds also heavily influence Sendak's writing, and are a recurring theme in many of his other works. Children exist in two worlds; reality and fantasy, according to Sendak. Reality is the boring, monotonous, day-to-day life. Fantasy is everything else ... all begin to droop. I pepped them up with chicken soup! The imagery alone from these lines serves to be amusing, yet still conveys information about the month June being one where flowers grow. My personal favorite book in The Nutshell Library is Pierre. Its mere presence as "a cautionary tale" among the three necessities of learning the alphabet, counting and the months of the year is bizarre, yet when we ... personality as well as elements of all children in every character he creates. He writes books about children, for children, as only a man with the child alive inside him could. His view on his writing is best depicted in the following excerpt from Sendak's Caldecott acceptance speech for Where The Wild Things Are: "Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond ...
- 1380: Huckleberry Finn Book Report
- ... name Mark Twain. Clemens fell in love with Olivia Langdon and married her in 1870 after a long courtship. The Clemens family lived in Hartford, Connecticut from 1871 until 1891, the period of his best writing. In 1872, he published his first book, Roughing It. He published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, considered his masterpiece of writing, was published in 1885. He received many honors and a great deal of recognition for his writings. Clemens died of Angina on April 21, 1910. MAIN CHARACTERS Huck Finn - the central character of the novel ... remain a free man. Huck decided not to betray his friend even though it was against everything he had been taught. He discovered his own identity and learned about the world in which he lived. PERSONAL REACTION I enjoyed this novel because of the intense use of colloquial speech and dialect. I would recommend this novel because Clemens style gives a realistic view of life on the Mississippi River in ...
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