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- 761: The Awakening: Edna Pontel
- The Awakening: Edna Pontel Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a work of fiction that tells the story of Edna Pontellier, Southern wife and mother. This book presents the reader with many tough questions and few answers. It is not hard to imagine why this book was banished for ...
- 762: “Style Critique on The Hot Zone”
- ... What were you thinking?” you may get an answer that is richer and more revealing of the human condition that any stream of thoughts a novelist could invent.” He’s right; fact is stranger than fiction. “ Aw, crap! They’ll put me into the Slammer. And Tony will be filling out accident reports while I’m breaking with Ebola. And a week later, I’ll be in the Submarine. Shit! Jerry ...
- 763: Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim Prediction of the Future
- ... in their minds the possibility of the profecy becoming a reality. In a critique of his own work, Orwell called Nineteen Eighty-Four “A work of a future terrible [sic] because it rests on a fiction and can not be substantiated by reality or truth. “ But perhaps this future is realizing itself more than Orwell thought it would. Orwell, more than likely, would have made note of, but wouldn’t be ...
- 764: Night Flight
- ... a great prairie sea, with its freight of human lives; and he saluted with his wings this passing ship. Exupery's book is short, (around 87 pg.) but it was good. Although this novel is fiction the characters are real. Antoine Exupery also wrote "The Little Prince", "Southern Mail", Flight to Arras" and many more.
- 765: Carver’s Characters
- ... Prize. In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Hartford. He received a Brandeis Citation for fiction in 1988. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. In many ways, Carver's life was the model for most of his characters – they also struggle through their lives. He married in ...
- 766: Remember Me: Review
- Remember Me: Review The Christopher Pike juvenile fiction trilogy, Remember Me traces the development of main character Shari Cooper from a naive teenager in book 1 to a mature yet materialistic 21 year old who forgets her purpose on earth. The Remember Me ...
- 767: Brave New World
- Brave New World BRAVE New World was published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to have kept nearly all of it’s meaning for the past 67 years, mostly because of its story of a tightly controlled, homogenous society. Issues ...
- 768: Voltaire's Writing Techniques In Candide
- ... respectable person, making the author's point of view seem just as reasonable and respectable. Another technique Voltaire uses in Candide is that of taking actual people and events and weaving into his work of fiction. He often does this to mock or ridicule his political and literary adversaries, as shown in the conversation between the abbe' and the Parisian supper guests (page 1593). The abbe' mentions two critics who in ...
- 769: Tom Clancy's Genius
- ... slow fighter-planes on landing without skidding, these systems make it safer for parents to take their children on vacation. One less noted advancement the eras brought is a considerable amount of exciting and forewarning fiction. While most authors chose to warn of nuclear and post nuclear holocaust, one significant author chose a different approach. Tom Clancy chose to write of conventional warfare and sometimes unconventional enemies. Between his novel Red ...
- 770: Brave New World
- ... societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his collegues. So he resorts to entertaining himself most evenings, without the company of a woman. This encourages his ...
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