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- 781: The Chosen
- The Chosen The Chosen, a fiction novel written in 1967 by Chaim Potok, is about two young Jewish boys and their friendship. It takes us along with them on their journey from adolescence to adulthood. They face many conflicts, and through ...
- 782: Stephen King: Telekinesis And It’s Effects On The Innocent
- ... the novel Carrie, which was written by Stephen King. Stephen King is noted for his use of the supernatural and the innocent. The theme of innocence betrayed is at the heart of Carrie..... throughout his fiction, the power of evil to malign and pervert the innocence is omnipresent. ( Magistrale 336 ). “Telekinesis is the ability to move objects or to cause changes ges in objects by force of the mind (King 43 ...
- 783: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- ... Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a fully documented account of the annihilation of the American Indians in the late 1800s ending at the Battle of Wounded Knee. This book, a work of non-fiction, attempts to tell the story of the American West from the perspective of the indigenous population, the American Indian. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is an important work of literature as it is one ...
- 784: The Awakening: An Analysis
- ... best novel to be published by a self-consciously Southern writer before the twentieth century “…reading it can be a devastating and unforgettable experience”(Wolff 234). It meets a number of contemporary criteria for good fiction. The novel is not "local color" as are so many of the short stories. The setting is New Orleans and the upscale resorts of the Gulf Coast, and the opening scenes of the novel are ...
- 785: Character Analysis of Metamorphosis
- ... wants him to. The basic elements of this story are very sad but Kafka makes it memorable by incorporating ironically comic scenes in the story. Work Cited Kafka, Franz. "The Metamorphosis." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Diana Gioia. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 1999. 26-33
- 786: A Date with Kosinski
- ... nothing but an old Polaroid snapshot: no negative, photographer unknown, camera thrown away" (Kosinski 182). Everything remembered is in the mind of the reader. Works Cited Paul R. Lilly, Jr. "Vision and Violence in the Fiction of Jerzy Kosinski." The Literary Review Spring 1992: 389-400. Rpt. In the Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Sharon Hall. Vol. 53. Detroit: Gale Research. 1984. 223. Robert E. Ziegler. "The Romance of Terror and Jerzy ...
- 787: Young Goodman Brown: The Power of Darkness
- ... tale. Young Goodman Brown is an allegory. The question in the story is asked by Hawthorne regarding the relations of good versus evil but he never supplies us with an answer or determines fact or fiction. By doing so the interpretation is left up to the reader and his/her own mind and beliefs.
- 788: The Yellow Wallpaper: Going Crazy
- ... Dictionary of Symbolism. Cumberland House: Hertfordshire, 1996 Cunningham, Iain and Homes, Douglas “Sensory Descriptions in the yellow wallpaper.” 1997. *http//www.english.ucla.edu/mcgraw/wallpaper/senses.htm* (02 march 1999) DiYanni, Robert “Literature reading fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay”ed.4, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “ The Yellow Wallpaper” New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1997. 291-302
- 789: Government Lies From Vietnam
- ... Nothing had changed except for the men at the top. They were waging war through public relations releases. Reports from the field were being rewritten by Harkins, with pessimism and unwelcome information deleted and outright fiction substituted.” Of course very few Americans knew how defective this program really was. It is hard to see why the United States government wanted every Vietnamese farmer in a protected area. Perhaps the North Vietnamese ...
- 790: Military Technology
- ... enjoy it. It is possible that this gives a recreational effect for some people, but there exist scientific evidence that especially children but also grown ups can have a hard time determining the difference between fiction and real life. As the games get more and more realistic, this is an issue that will be more discussed and given more attention in the future. By now submarine- and flight simulators are the ...
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