Interactive fiction

In Porcupines and China Dolls , Robert Arthur Alexie writes of hard hitting, serious issues that Aboriginal communities across Canada face but that are rarely spoken of. Alexie writes with blunt honestly aimed at an older audience who understand the frank discussions of alcoholism, domestic violence and sex, both consensual and not and the consequences they have on both individuals and the community. While the pace lags at the beginning, it does successfully build the bleak world of the novel and

The truth of adulthood in “Araby” “Araby,” a complex short story by James Joyce is narrated by a mature man who reflects upon an adolescent boy’s transition into adulthood. The story focuses on the events that brought the main character to face his disconnect from reality. Love plays a distinct role in the boy’s delusion of reality, which Joyce relays from the beginning of the story. Minor characters, such as Mangan’s sister, the priest, Mrs. Mercer, and his uncle hold a vital role in the boy’s

Throughout the story by Chinua Achebe “Dead Man’s Path” there are forms of irony, symbolism, and views which set the tone and background for the story. In opening, we see a young man by the name of Michael Obi who has just received a job as the headmaster of an “unprogressive” school in what appears to be Africa in 1949. This town has religious ties as well as strong family roots. This story unfolds into a great cataclysmic display of irony. We can gather that Obi is a very strong willed man with

Metaphors are figures of speech conveyed to non-literal, non-applicable objects, actions or phrases. They can trick the mind’s interpretation of one thing into something more than what it appears. Metaphors envelop many writers’ literary pieces and can complicate more than what seems obvious to the readers whilst portraying different aspects for literary criticisms. Many authors utilize these poetic tactics to give different perspectives to their written works. Ernest Hemingway, a great American

Literary Analysis Essay The life of a ranch girl is unknown to many people across America. In Maile Meloy’s Ranch Girl, a female narrator brings the reader into her hard life being raised as a ranch girl. Through many different literary devices including, tone, mood, and characterization, the writer set the reader to feel everything the narrator depicts and the reader ingested with a heavier impact than the reader anticipates. The obligation to the community for the ranch girl is to break all stereotypes

printed because novels only have to be new for when they came out. So for instance Pride and Prejudice was novel when it came out in 1813 just like how Mrs. Dalloway was novel when it came out in 1925. Although these novels seem to be fiction, if not realistic fiction, it is common to wonder how the authors came up with these ideas for their books. In actuality most authors take experiences that they had from their lives and incorporated them into the story. Often after researching an author one can

MD. Moazzam Hossain ID NO. 133013040 ENG 302 The Novel-1 Submitted to: Ms Arifa Rahaman Date: 09.12.2015 Theme of ‘Lord of The Flies’ and ‘The Guide’ ‘Lord of the flies’(1954) and ‘The guide’(1958) are the two novels written by famous novelists William Golding and R.K. Narayan. ‘Lord of the Flies’ portrays the story of a group of British boys trapped on an abandoned island who try to administrate themselves with catastrophic results and On the other side, R.K. Narayan quite consciously

In a typical Bildungsroman novel is a coming of age story in which the psychological and moral development from the protagonist childhood into adulthood, in which the changes are deeply important to the novel. In Morgenstern’s statement “to depict a human being who develops toward his true nature by means of a collaboration of his inner dispositions with outer circumstances” and Lukacs’s statement “The theme is the reconciliation of the problematic individual…with concrete social reality” does not

Spiegelman is an American born cartoonist and editor born in 1948. He has been extremely successful throughout his career, working for numerous comic lines. There’s no doubt that Maus certainly was his greatest work. You could consider Spiegalman’s experience to be his best credential. Maus is a graphic novel that depicts basically a cat and mouse representation of the Holocaust. A graphic novel as defined by Webster’s dictionary is a “fictional story that is presented in comic strip format and published

Fiction means “an unreal or made up story (Kirszner, & Mandell, 2012 p. 91).” “Short Story refer to “a story based on a theme; however shorter than a novel (Kirszner, & Mandell, 2012 p.95).” Plot implements the main events in sequence order (Kirszner, & Mandell, 2012 p. 110).” Theme: The big idea or topic. The setting is a location or the demographical environment place the story occurred (Kirszner, & Mandell, 2012 p. 148).” The point of View: “the attitude or the way the story presented to