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- 1041: The Devils Of Loudun, By Aldou
- ... his polemical novels and celebrated essays: present is the issue of man s ongoing obsession with self-transcendence which was so pertinent in the excellent, infamous Doors of perception ; the dilemma that recurs throughout his fiction, that of the cloistered and suppressed mind dealing with passionate human emotion, is here in extremis. On a functional level, The Devils of Loudun seeks to oppose humankind s tendency towards hypocrisy, malice and self ...
- 1042: The Chocolate War Book Report
- ... have a happy ending, but there was a resolution in the story. Archie set up a boxing match, of all things, between Jerry Renault and Emile Janza. Emile ended up beating Jerry to a bloody pulp in a matter of minutes, while Jerry landed only three punches the entire match. As a result Jerry finally learned that he couldn t beat the system, and that he d be better off doing ...
- 1043: The Child By Tiger
- ... Dick's action was. In addition, it showed how the human sole, no matter how strong, has the tendency to become violent or evil. In "The Child by Tiger" Wolfe uses those three elements of fiction to masterful show the truth about a human experience.
- 1044: The Cathedral
- ... seem to recognize the most important things in life. While a lot has been written about Raymond Carver, little has been written about Cathedral. Contributing writer Charles E. May in the Reference Guide to Short Fiction sites a change in Carver s writing style beginning with the stories contained in the same anthology as Cathedral: Whereas his early stories are minimalist and bleak, his later stories are more discursive and optimistic ...
- 1045: The Bogus Logic Of The Beak Of
- ... The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. New York: Scribner, 1996. "The 1995 Pulitzer Prizes, General Nonfiction: Jurors." 1997. The Pulitzer Prizes. http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1995/general-non-fiction/jury/ (28 Dec. 1997). Ruse, Michael. 1979. The Darwinian Revolution. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. Shakespeare, William. c. 1598. A Midsummer Night s Dream. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Washington Square ...
- 1046: The Things They Carried 2
- ... killed. Their dreams gave them a way of escape from the war, but they had to live in the real world to survive. The Things They Carried contained all the elements of a work of fiction to justify calling it a story. There was special emphasis on detailed description and realistic narration a result of the author s own experiences. It was a story about the human spirit under extreme psychological ...
- 1047: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... inspire the British playwright Peter Shaffer in writing AMADEUS). Pushkin's short stories--such as "The Queen of Spades," upon which Tchaikovsky based his great opera "Pique Dame"--are the first great works of prose fiction in Russian to stand the test of time unshakably. His most widely read masterpiece, the verse novel EUGENE ONEGIN, is the source for another magnificent Tchaikovsky opera by the same name, as well as several ...
- 1048: The Analysis Of Light And Dark
- ... the house using various dark elements. He expresses to his readers that the house is in ruins and is destined to collapse, which is representative of the Pyncheon family. Richard Fogle states in Hawthorne s Fiction: The Light and the Dark: There is a certain suggestion in the novel, though, that the humanity and dignity of the house are inseparable from its troubles; this suggestion is found in the contrasting images ...
- 1049: Symbolism In Fahrenheit 451
- Symbolism in Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, perhaps one of the best-known science fiction, wrote the amazing novel Fahrenheit 451. The novel is about Guy Montag, a fireman who produces fires instead of eliminating them in order to burn books (Watt 2). One night while he is walking home ...
- 1050: Shpere
- ... is a depressing ending, the book as a whole is a heart pounding, nonstop adventure story that I recommend this book to anyone who likes to read. Even if you don't generally like science fiction you'll love this unpredictable novel.
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