The Guilty Blade: A Narrative Fiction

wasn't her. I finished college and moved out of town. After the Karen dream, I reorganized and cleaned the inside of the module in a concentrated frenzy. A muscle began to randomly jump in my left eyebrow and an itch was growing between my shoulder blades. I found myself pacing in circles and decided to end my test run early. I was learning to trust my instincts. When I rose to surface, the rain was pounding dimples into the waves and the land wasn't where it was supposed to be. I figured there'd been…

Truth vs. Fiction in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Uncle Tom's Cabin It is often said that truth is stranger than fiction. Perhaps, this is so, as truth wears no veil; it is stark reality. There are no soft edges in truth. Only the most zealous hunters, those willing to meet the sword, actively seek it. The majority, while considering ourselves open to the truth, may only realize it when it comes disguised as something else. In short, it seems that we need to see it as…

piled one on top of the other until they become a wall. I looked at my daughter who resembled my mother more than me. The mother who called me an accident and named me Regret. To this daughter, I showed the miniature spears of dragonfly between long blades of grass. The powder butterfly uncurling a tongue and drinking from drops of rain. The deer with luminous eyes watching us from under a tree of shadows. A gray cat jerking his silver tail at the crow that taunted him from a high branch. Holding her…

harbor at least some doubt as to the veracity of that statement, I call him a fool. And Mace Tyrell is no fool. But it matters little. If Willas Tyrell were made privy to our intentions, he would have no choice but to relay them to his father or be guilty of treason himself. We could not put the man in that position even if we knew him to be sympathetic to our cause.” “But you would await word from Father before we answer this . . .summons?” She nodded. “It is only prudent to carefully consider any…

Narrative and Genre Features in the Opening Sequence of Pulp Fiction A narrative is the story itself and generic features are elements expected to be contained within a certain category of film. Pulp Fiction is labeled as a gangster film; however gangster films follow very precise generic elements such a death, contraband’s, violence, wealth and strong family loyalties. Pulp Fiction doe follow the above mentioned elements but the locations of the action are unorthodox…

surprised when Raidō pulls him into a rough hug, back slap and all. “I knew you missed me,” Asuma says, offering his own awkward little hug back. Raidō snorts and pulls away – Genma's disappeared. Raidō looks as tired as Kakashi and himself, and guilty. “Hey man,” he says, squeezing his former team mate's shoulder, “don't look at me like that.” He doesn't doubt for a moment his father didn't leave Genma and Raidō behind with full knowledge of what was going to happen. The old man was stubborn to…

The captivity narrative genre is not often a favorite type of literature among most students. Perhaps because of the time in which they were written, students have trouble relating to characters whom lived in a setting more than two and three hundred years ago. Although the genre receives attention in many early level American literature college courses, high school English teachers rarely—if at all—teach captivity narratives. When it is used, students perceive the captivity narrative as a historical…

In short fiction, as in creative writing generally, the point of view or narrative technique has been seen as particularly important in how readers might engage with a story. Why might an author use a particular narrative technique? Select three stories from the Reader that demonstrate a particular narrative technique, or that demonstrate several different narrative techniques, and discuss and compare the effect of this in these stories. Narrative technique and point of view play an important part…

Quentin Tarantino United States Of America - 1994 John Travolta, Samel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis Quentin Tarantino’s American crime film “Pulp Fiction” is organized through three separate but interrelated storylines. There is one story that constructed by three distinct stories. At the beginning of the sequences, titles are shown on the black screen which provides a recognizable source for narration.The first story-Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s wife- is about Vincent Vega…

The Representation of Genre and Narrative in the Opening Sequence of the Film Blade Runner For this essay question I am going to be viewing and exploring the themes of genre and narrative in the first 10minutes of the film Blade Runner. Blade Runner was first released in 1982, directed by Ridley Scott ('The Duellists' 1977 and 'Alien' 1979), Blade Runner was a film adaptation of Phillip K Dick's novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'. Originally a box office flop the…