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- 1071: Parental Conflict In Turtle Mo
- ... Turtle Moon For the average person, occasional inter-personal conflicts are a fact of life. Nowhere do these conflicts manifest themselves with greater tension than in the parent-adolescent relationship. Through their works, writers of fiction illuminate the sources of strain common to parent-child interactions. In the novel Turtle Moon, Alice Hoffman exemplifies this conflict in the relationship between Keith Rosen and his mother Lucy. There are several factors that ...
- 1072: A Review Of To Kill A Mockingb
- ... B. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia & New York. This is the only book that Harper Lee has ever written. It is also one of the best-loved novels in American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Lee is a very private person who doesn’t grant interviews, although her literary agent says she divides her time between her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama and New York. She also enjoys reading, and her ...
- 1073: Brave New World
- ... adjust well to civilization, and is very strong in religious beliefs. Linda-Was left behind to live in the savage reservation when she accidentally got pregnant. Keywords Freedom, Genetic Engineering, Human Worth, Individuality, Science, Science Fiction, Society, Technology
- 1074: Blind Obedience
- ... a child. It uses a classroom of children facing a major change in their lives as the setting. The story moves quickly and the characters are only briefly sketched out. The story has a science fiction “feel” to it. The events preceding the story include a war (with an unknown opponent) that we have lost. The main character among the children is Johnny whose father fought in the war and is ...
- 1075: New Terror
- ... bulb and a teaspoon of crystallized genetically engineered virus strands, to bring a particular gene pool or race to its death in a community or larger. The technology can do it, it is not science fiction, and Russia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, and many others could do it yesterday, so to speak. More startling however is that it is being sold or traded (what Russia did in the late eighties). Groups ...
- 1076: John Steinbeck
- ... his heart and soul into “The Grapes of Wrath, ” published in 1939 He wrote of a family from Oklahoma moving to California during the Great Depression. “The Grapes of Wrath” won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1940. It was considered his best work. At this point in his life John was described as “of giant height, with fair hair and fair mustache, and eyes the blue of the Pacific on ...
- 1077: Lord Of The Flies
- ... in 1983. This award is given to a writer not for one particular volume but for all of his work. Golding passed away in Wiltshire, England, in 1993. Golding owes the distinctive quality of his fiction to the influence of the Greek drama and epic. His use of the disheveled choirboys in Lord of the Flies and the inner voices of Pincher Martin and Sammy Mountjoy as choruses; his use of ...
- 1078: Langston Hughes - Poetry Analy
- ... collection. Although Langston Hughes was best known for his poetry (and he considered himself to be first and foremost a poet,) he produced a great deal of work in other genres as well, including autobiography, fiction, plays, children’s books, newspaper pieces, and anthologies. Because he supported himself solely through his writing, Hughes wrote constantly. Not only does this divert our attention from his chief (and strongest) genre, it also obviously ...
- 1079: In Jonathan Swift’s Essay, “A
- ... a collection of these abilities. In conclusion to the story, the reader can scrutinize each sentence to find a different meaning or interpretation. Clearly, this essay is and should be treated as a work of fiction and nothing more. Though it is nothing more than a fictional work it should be taken into account that the essay carries a deeper meaning to which every reader can find difference.
- 1080: Leggatt As An Independent Char
- ... the Craft: Conrad on Ships and Seamen and the Sea. New York: National University Publications, 1976. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Graver, Lawrence. Conrad's Short Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. Karl, Frederick Robert. Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979. Watts, Cedric. A Preface to Conrad. 2nd ed. New York: Longman Publishing, 1993.
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