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Theme of Stereotypes One of the main themes that I noticed when I was reading through the fairy tale texts was the theme of stereotypes. Firstly, what are stereotypes? Stereotypes are essentially an offensive generalization or an over exaggerated view that is used to categorize a group of people. I noticed that in two of the three texts that I have selected for this paper, the authors, Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, tend to portray women as being very dependent on men. In addition, to being depicted

nations. With the violent realities of neoliberal prosperity displaced to the periphery of the world-system, the genre of Afrofuturism allows literature to mediate and discover the importance of hidden histories while giving a voice to the marginalized. Nalo Hopkinson’s novel The New Moon’s Arms and Pauline Melville’s short story “The Sparkling Bitch” work to reconstruct

will always be grouped in that category. This well intentioned joke fuels the system that is racism. As mentioned before. Systematic racism can also be fueled by chance. During a convention where writers were grouped together for book signing. Nalo Hopkinson and Delany, the only two black writers attending the convention, were sat together. Delany’s friend was in charge of the book signing scheduling and said that they were sat by a program and, “Well, certainly there’s nothing wrong with that pairing

Following the contemporary style of fiction, magical realism falls into a category of its own, portraying both the roles of fiction and nonfiction. Magical realism takes the reader into a fantastical world, shaped by the author, based on the author’s surroundings, and life experiences. This essay will provide more insight into this style of writing and how it came to be. Taking cited works from multiple sources, this essay will allow one to see examples of excellent works in the style of magical

Literary Review My argument is that SF literature offers a utopian hope for the future where individual differences are no longer criticized. To conduct this literature review I used multiple information sources to examine issues of gender and sexuality within science fiction literature. None of these sources claim to have produced a conclusive work on the interpretation of gender and sexuality in SF. Some of what I have read seems to be a general overview while some is more focused, but everything

more than boys do, so teachers need to focus on boys, however that can leave many girls uninspired and disinterested. Dolphins would fit seamlessly into the curriculum in the existing unit on survival. Hatchet Gary Paulsen 8 Brown Girl in the Ring Nalo