Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea And The Hound Of The Baskervilles

In this novel, the main type of conflict is person versus person, which is Stapleton, the person behind The Hound of the Baskervilles, versus Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Sherlock and Watson were following Dr. Mortimer and the next heir to the Baskervilles fortune, Sir Henry, their clients for the case, and they saw someone, who was later revealed as Stapleton, was tracking their movements since the clients came to their office. The author wrote, “ I was aware of a bushy black beard and a pair of piercing eyes upon us through the window of the cab. Instantly the trapdoor at the top flew up, something was screamed to the driver, and the cab flew madly off down

Fahrenheit 451 Theme Essay In the year 1953, Ray Bradbury published a book titled Fahrenheit 451. This book explores a dystopian world where houses are completely fireproof, and instead of putting out fires, firemen start them. They do this for one reason, which is to destroy all books. The author has many things he wanted to convey, one of which is that books are people. The theme of Fahrenheit 451 is that books encompass the author’s entire life and their opinions. Along with this, Bradbury was trying to show that by reading a book, the reader also shares these experiences.

Literature is important to allow readers to escape reality within the pages of a book, and also to preserve the past by reading about personal experiences and understanding the norms of different time periods. It is beneficial to provide a new world for the reader, but it shows our history and how it has changed over the years. Many fiction writers hint at real-world experiences or topics and it is up to the reader to interpret the theme of the literature. Authors write to preserve our past and to show a common theme as well as open the door to allow the reader to delve into the words on the page.

The fictional character Guy Montag from Ray Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451” found comfort and hope in books, just as the author J.K. Rowling found comfort and hope in her writing. The author J.K. Rowling found hope and comfort writing stories that helped her escape the adversities she experienced in her life. Similarly, the fictional character Guy Montag becomes hopeful for the future of mankind when he realizes he can save books. Books, songs and stories bring hope and comfort to people, as literature, allows people to imagine a different and time; a better future. Therefore, Montag and Rowling both find hope in literature.

Truth is a “true or an actual state of matter”. In all these three novels that I chose, hiding the truth is harmful, but it’s easier to just hide the truth for some characters. Although it’s easy to hide the truth, there’s a lot of weight, one have to carry

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 presents readers with multiple themes. In the novel Bradbury conveys message through strong use of literacy devices. In the fictional society of Fahrenheit 451 books are banned. In the society of Fahrenheit 451 firemen create fires instead of putting them out. Bradbury portrays the society as dystopian; Although Bradbury never directly states, he implies great disdain for a society like Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury crafted the novel to be interpreted intellectually. The characters claim to be happy. However, the reader can conclude otherwise. Bradbury creates a question for the reader to decipher. Is ignorance bliss? Or, does the ability to think for oneself create happiness? Throughout the novel Bradbury entices the reader to interpret his writing on a deeper level. Contrary to Bradbury’s illustration of an unintellectual society, Bradbury’s themes require in-depth interpretation of the novel. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury conveys the stories’ themes through characterization and symbolism.

Why do people read literature? The definition of literature is a writing of some sort in which expression and form are characteristics or features of the writing. It can come in the form of poetry, novels, biographies, or essays. There are a couple of main reasons people usually read literature. People usually read for an escape from life, to learn something new, to confront human experience, or simply for pleasure. One of the more popular of those four is to confront human experience. They use what the author writes down and apply it to their daily life. Authors sometimes do that too. They write down their own experiences to give the audience pleasure, or to realize that they shouldn’t make the same mistakes. When it comes to

David Choi Mrs. Di Francesco English 8 02 November 2016 “Fiction: Fake or Real?” After reading the Harry Potter series, U spent weeks anticipating a letter from a magical school that would reveal that I was in fact a wizard and was invited to attend their classes to learn magic. People tend to enjoy reading fiction so they can live vicariously through the characters in the story. Fiction, despite being “made-up”, often have close similarities to the real world. By taking a closer look at “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe, one can infer that fiction reveal a significant amount of truths about human nature.

Humans have always loved stories, from magical ones filled with wonders, to the everyday life reciting’s. Humans crave stories; they crave the moment of going to a magical land of wonders that exceed their own lives. Such is the case with books. Books hold the magic of binding a story and making it immortal. Creating a world that shall never be forgotten, whilst always adding new members. Unfortunately not all see books as a valuable relic. Most people nowadays do not even deem books as worthy of their time at any given moment. Nevertheless, some books do have the power to make even books haters yearn for more and are read even centuries after they were first published. The article ”How Harry Saved Reading” written by Norman Lebrecht in 2011 dives into the subject of how J.K.Rowling managed to make

The Hound of the Baskerville The legendary author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Hound of the Baskerville. The story is all about solving the mysterious mystery of the death of Sir Charles. Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson are trying to find out that the murderer is and how would they solve it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses Stapleton as a foil to Holmes to highlight between good vs. evil, compare each character's personality, and how their actions lead to solving the mystery.

Protecting stories from oppression allows communities Fulford summarizes a work by Mark Turner: “‘Story is the fundamental instrument of thought. Rational capacities depend on it.’ He believes that storytelling is our chief means of explaining the world to one another and ourselves, and the principal way we form intelligence” (82). One of the most defining human characteristics, rational thought, depends upon stories. Literature inspires thinking and is the connection between people by providing new ways to interpret the world. This ability to form ideas and share them in an intelligent way is the basis of a society: communication. Restricting literature by allowing it to be controlled by tyrants interferes with problem solving and intelligent communication. Not only do stories play a sociological role, they also have a biological

As young children watching movies and reading books, we tend to always fall in love with one character, and they become our favorites. Some of your childhood favorites may have been Batman, Luke Skywalker, Rapunzel, and Captain America, or Winnie the Pooh and Dorothy. These characters are all heroes and are all very similar, for they all have loyal sidekicks who stand by them through thick and thin. Batman has Robin. Luke Skywalker has Princess Leia. Captain America has Bucky Barnes, and Winnie the Pooh has Piglet. Some might as well have loved the sidekick just as much, or even more than the hero. It is after all hard to not fall in love the Rapunzel's adorable chameleon, Pascal. Overall, sidekicks are often placed in a story to help by showing the utmost loyalty to their own dignitary; some do this by giving knowledge, others just through cracking jokes. With different cultures and different settings for stories, the sidekick’s usefulness and value to the hero varies. Depending on the story, the sidekick might not be portrayed as very helping, but in another time and place, they might be a very key character, in a different story.

It is very hard to imagine a functional society without literature of any kind. Albert Camus stated this in his own words – “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” In other words, Camus is claiming that books and voiced opinions exist in order to save the world from defeating itself. This idea is explored in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, which takes place in a dysfunctional and anti-intellectual society where all literature is banned and has to be burned on sight. Camus’s words are shown to be valid and clearly supported in this book; writing really is a necessary component to keeping a civilization intact. Fahrenheit 451’s themes further establish the validity of this quote, as Bradbury illustrates the dystopia that is a world with no literature, and the chaos and disarray that comes along with it.

Characters have a way of becoming real people with ideals, feelings, raw emotions and personality traits that anyone can connect with in their own unique way.  An adventure such as deep sea exploring is a chance few in the world get; being able to live it through Jules Verne’s book

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea written by Jules Verne teaches us clearly about identity and the inability to escape from who you truly are. Throughout the book, Captain Nemo is described as a mysterious grieving character trying to escape from deep pain caused by his oppressors in his homeland. Hiding himself from the world, he and his crew manage to construct the Nautilus, a vessel never seen before that would allow him to be isolated from civilization and puzzle the scientific world. Momentarily succeeding, not only does he travel the world captaining the vessel and the crew, his ship is able to withstand the many leagues under the sea quite easily. For once able to forget the hardships he had faced, he lives a new life as a different