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- 751: Slaughter House Five: Time Travel
- ... to visit it. He uses Billy Pilgrim to express his views of time, and it is up to the reader to figure out what this is. He deals with real situations as well as science fiction or fantasy. A real situation is such that of a plane crash and a fantasy would be a visit to another planet, known as Tralfamadore in the novel. His writing is very unique, you can ...
- 752: Aspects of the Narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat”
- ... of memory, and deaf superstition. These three unreliable qualities of the narrator grant him real human personification, which solidifies this already frightening tale. Bibliography Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Black Cat.” The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction. 2nd ed. Stott et. al., Eds. Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1998. 893-899. Womack, Martha and Christoffer Nilsson. Edgar Allan Poe. http://poedecoder.com http://www.nadn.navy.mil/EnglishDept/poeperplex/blcat.htm
- 753: The Cask of Amontillado: Irony and Foreshadowing
- ... this knowledge. The reader is pulled into the dark, quiet recesses of the tomb, and this setting gives the murder an eerie, creepy mood. As with the examples in “ The Cask of Amontillado,” foreshadowing gives fiction mystery, and suspense; it keeps the reader moving towards the next moment to look forward to.
- 754: Jane Eyre: The Preserverance of the Personality
- ... action are still on the surface - the novel only as a whole offers a real presentation of a complex, singular character. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Penguin Popular Classics, 1994 John Kucich, Repression in Victorian Fiction, University of California Press, 1987 John Maynard, Charlotte Brontë and sexuality, Cambridge University Press, 1984 Earl A. Knies, The Art of Charlotte Brontë, Ohio University Press, 1969 Q. D. Leavis, Introduction to Charlotte Brontë's ...
- 755: “Masque of the Red Death”vs.“Fall of the House of Usher”: A Glimpse Into The Life of Poe
- ... on his writings, and the literary elements he used in these writings. His life reflected on these works greatly. Many of Poe’s writings seemed to have hidden meanings and appeared autobiographical. “In his Gothic fiction, Poe handles the morbid and frightening subjects with which his reputation is so closely associated – death, madness, disease, the dissolution of personality, the wasting away of fragile heroines. Sometimes the incidents recounted are realistic: …‘The ...
- 756: Fahrenheit 451: How Montag is Convinced to Change His Mind about Books
- ... 1960. Mogen, David. Ray Bradbury. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986 Zipes, Jack. "Mass Degradation of Humanity and Massive Contradictions in Bradbury's Vision of America in Fahrenheit 451." No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Ed. Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
- 757: Literary Analysis of Lennie
- ... to let Curley sock him. This example reveals Lennie’s childish fear of something that could never hurt him (like the Boogie Man). Lennie really does not realize that he could beat Curley to a pulp with one hand. The fact that Lennie even bothers to say that he doesn’t want any trouble proves that he really is non-violent, contrary to the situations he gets himself into. 7. Quote ...
- 758: Kerouac's On the Road: Living in Clip
- ... did he conquer Greenwich, Kerouac conquered the world. Work Cited Page Asher, Levi. Jack Kerouac: Blue Neon Alley. [Online] Available http://www.charm.net./~brooklyn/people/Jack Kerouac.html, September 26, 1999. Braley, Mark. "American Fiction." Masterplots Complete 1999. CD-ROM. Boston: Salem Press, Inc., 1999. Dardess, George. "Jack Kerouac 1922-1969." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 16. Ann Arbor, MI: Gale Research Company, 1983. Dempsey, David. "In Pursuit of Kicks ...
- 759: The Call of the Wild: Determinism and Darwinism
- ... into many languages. His noted journalism included war correspondence, boxing stories, and the life of Molokai lepers. A committed socialist, he insisted against editorial pressures to write political essays and insert social criticism in his fiction (Merrain AOL). Some of his other novels include Adventure, which was written in 1911, Before Adam, which was written in 1907, Burning Daylight, which was a tale of the Klondike Goldrush and the corrupting influence ...
- 760: Huckleberry Finn
- ... way, corrupt. A couple of days down the river they meet two of the most memorable people in the story, the King and the Duke. "The King and the Duke are not elsewhere matched in fiction"(v.19 Paine (p353)) This group of hustlers caused nothing but trouble for Huck and Jim. Everywhere they went they were scamming for money ad ripping people off. After a couple of days of trying ...
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