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- 1171: Huckleberry Finn
- ... at romantic (non-realistic) literature. Tom insists that all his make-believe adventures be conducted "by the book." As Tom himself admits in regarding his gang's oath, he gets many of his ideas from fiction. In particular, Tom tries to emulate the romantic (that is, not realistic) novels that were mostly imported from Europe and achieved enormous popularity in nineteenth-century North America. Tom will be identified with this genre ...
- 1172: Heart Of Darkness - Lies
- The Lies A lie is an untruth. It can be a false statement or a statement left unsaid which causes someone to be misled. In life, lies are told for many different reasons. In fiction, they thicken the plot and overall setting of the story. In Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow dislikes lies and therefore only tells two, both in extraordinary circumstances. Thus, these lies show the following about ...
- 1173: Heart Of Darkness - Ignorance And Racism
- ... His book has all the trappings of the conventional adventure tale - mystery, exotic setting, escape, suspense, unexpected attack. Chinua Achebe concluded, "Conrad, on the other hand, is undoubtedly one of the great stylists of modern fiction and a good story-teller into the bargain" (Achebe 252). Yet, despite Conrad's great story telling, he has also been viewed as a racist by some of his critics. Achebe, Singh, and Sarvan, although ...
- 1174: Harrison Bergeron
- ... is not where we want to be. Works Cited Schatt, Stanley. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1976. Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. "Harrison Bergeron". The Short Story and Its Writers: An Intro to Short Fiction, Fifth Edition. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 1999. 1332-1335.
- 1175: H.G. Wells
- ... a correspondence college. From 1893 Wells became a full-time writer. After some years Wells left Isabel for one of his brightest students, Amy Catherine, whom he married in 1895. Wells began to write fantasy fiction because he wanted to make money, and to get on with his writing career. He decided to write in this genere because he thought, and was right, that there was a large amount of people ...
- 1176: Greenspan - The Case For The Defence
- ... person. When two police officers re-create a false scene for the jury, the reader begins to understand why the author ponders upon different moral questions and creates circumstantial, yet fruitful answers. Like a detective fiction novel, Greenspan proves without a doubt that there is more than meets the eye in accepting and defending a client. As witnessed in the chapter Hi Mom, Guess Who's In Jail, the reader learns ...
- 1177: Grapes Of Wrath - Theme Of Journey
- ... 2 pp. Online. Internet. 30 April, 1999. Available http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.html. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin Books USA Inc, 1993. Timmerman, John. John Steinbeck’s Fiction. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. Wilson, Edmund. "The Noonday Press." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 13, Gale Research Co. Book Tower: Detroit 1973.
- 1178: Grapes Of Wrath
- During the Dust Bowl, hundreds of thousands of southerners faced many hardships, which is the basis of the novel called The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinback wrote this fiction novel to portray the harsh conditions during the Dust Bowl. However, is the portrayal of the Dust Bowl in The Grapes of Wrath valid? When one considers the merit of this novel, one thinks, how ...
- 1179: Global Tales - Stories From Many Cultures
- ... lighting and the astrologer’s ‘make-up’. This is the irony: Guru Nayak is paying money to the enemy he is looking for when he is supposed to take revenge by beating him to a pulp. By picking up clues along the way, it builds up the curiosity and climax of the story. This element is not easily found in "Crime and Punishment". This, thus, keeps us in suspense and excitement ...
- 1180: Flying Home
- ... flying home’. Bibliography Works Cited Busby, Mark. Ralph Ellison. Boston: Twayne. 1991 Bloom, Harold, ed. Ralph Ellison. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea. 1986. Trimmer, Joseph F. Ralph Ellison’s ‘Flying Home’. Studies In Short Fiction 9 (1972):175-182 Ellison, Ralph. "Flying Home." Western Literature in a World Context. Ed. Nancy Lyman. New York: SMP. 1995. 1758-1770
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