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

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

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.

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

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 as the truth is hidden. Telling the truth can also be dangerous for other character is these novels. Yet, no matter how long it takes or how dangerous it is to tell the truth, we can see that it always finds it’s way out in Othello, The Scarlet Letter, and Fahrenheit 451.

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.

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.

He chases butterflies and studies the moor and it’s inhabitants. In the book mortimer is a very creepy person and studies humans and skulls. While in the film mortimer is a acts in a more serious manner while Stapleton is incredibly creepy, he asks would you have an objection to me running my finger along parietal fissure? Also he makes more points about Holmes’ skull (Attwood, The Hound of the Baskervilles). This ends up making Stapleton a very creepy character for the suspense of the movie. In the book Watson looks up to Holmes with great respect and takes his smallest compliments and appreciates them greatly. Holmes states with great pride, “It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.” (Doyle 3). By saying this he means, Watson is such a fool that he makes Homles seem even smarter than he is. In the film, however, Watson stands up to Homles at the end when he saves Homles from drowning in the moor pit even though he got shot by stapleton (Attwood, The Hound of the Baskervilles). Also, when Watson finds out Holmes has been investigating the case after Holmes told him that Holmes had work to do in london, He was outraged. There is also other small details in the story that do not have a huge effect on the plot but still change it slightly. For example, Laura Lyon does not exist in the film, even though in the book

Books teach us how to live. It makes readers imagine places, experience events, meet people, listen to them, and understand their joys and sufferings. Imagine living in a world without ideas, conflicts, and emotions, said to be the perfect word, but instead a controlled system that the government is capable of manipulating which is shown in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In this society, all works of Books have become a symbol of unnecessary controversy and are outlawed. The novel introduces Guy Montag, a fireman in a futuristic society where he and his coworkers start fires instead of stopping them if books are found by firemen upon discovery.

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

In Robert Penn Warren’s essay “Why Do We Read Fiction?” it concludes that people read fiction because it satisfies the reader’s deepest needs. Fiction itself makes people feel significant, so when we read Lord of the Flies and A Separate Peace it also makes us feel significant in many unique ways. One of those ways is through making fiction novels that have people live without rules or breaking the rules. That’s what makes the reader interested.

Understanding literature is not an easy task. Every point every sentence brings a new idea from the perspectives of different people. That new idea can also bring some critical questions about the work. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and “One Thousand and One Night” both are marvelous works. The similarities between these Arabian tales and Sir Gawain and the Green night are very striking. The scholar Edward L. Risden in his analysis of “One Thousand and One Nights,” mentioned “Sir Gawain and Green Knight” and some of the main subjects of both of these tales. After reading Norton’s “Sir Gawain and Green Knight” and Geraldine Mccaughrean’s “Arabian Nights,” I intend to show that “Sir Gawain and Green Knight” was written under the influence of Arabian tale, “One Thousand and One Nights” as the similarities of themes and actions in both tales are very conspicuous.

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.

In the novel, Doyle stated that “Mr. Stapleton was a naturalist,”(96) but in reality he was the twisted, greedy murderer of the Baskerville case. Most characters in the novel were deceived by his innocent appearance until the death of Selden and when some bad information was revealed about him. Another piece of evidence, is when Holmes was examining Dr. Mortimer’s walking stick. Holmes had imagined him as a “typical country practitioner” but really he appeared in a “professional but slovenly fashion”(15). Furthermore, deceiving appearances can lead to wrong actions, which caused the death of Selden.