Speculative fiction

Among all Urdu fiction writers, Manto has been translated the most extensively into these languages as well as into English. He was also a film and radio script writer and journalist. In his short life he published twenty two collections of short stories, five collections…

Symbolism hiding behind words The deeper people searches in the ocean the more things are found. Each word has a mystery story behind but in order to find it first take a look a little bit closer. In this case every word symbolizes something in order to represent specific ideas or give qualities to those words. In ¨The Fairy¨, by Robert Louis Stevenson uses the words poor, diamonds and gift to symbolize nobility. Symbols are also used for a purpose. Generally, it is an object representing…

Different touch of literary genre has been observed in Okri’s writing including aspects of life within Nigeria and in the World at large. Although these stories are speckled yet a common theme is threading the magical reality in all stories. For example; in the story 'Laughter Beneath the Bridge', the Biafran war is being told according to the viewpoint of a ten year old boy. If it had never occurred to you that wars could also shake the emotive life of younger children then read this short…

Abstract: Kiran Desai is a distinguished Indian women novelist in English during the present century. She is a daughter of Anita Desai who is one of the most prominent Indian women novelists in English. Kiran Desai has written two novels namely Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and Inheritance of loss and won the covetous ‘Booker Prize’ for her second novel in 2006. However her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is as remarkable her ‘Booker Prize’ novel. Hullabaloo in…

Emmanuel Alvarez Mrs. Lutrell English 11 5th February 2018 Lennies devastated American Dream Of Mice and Men was a story beloved in American Literature with the setting of 1930’s and John Steinbeck at the helm. However, this beloved story comes with some startling discoveries as the underlying narrative is one of despair, alienation, and even dehumanization of the human body. As seen with Steinbeck's description and characterization of Lennie throughout the tale. Lennie is written as a giant…

Many books have many different archetypes and they can vary from each one but in the book “Love? Maybe.” by Heather Hepler, the character Claire is definitely the innocent/outcast archetype. Even though she isn’t the main character she is still a big part of the story. Claire can be described as the Innocent/outcast archetype for many reasons. This is because she always has a positive outlook on a situation, she is also very gentle and caring toward many people. But she can also be described as…

The sound track that has been chosen out of the 15 tracks from the album, Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture as the focus of study is “Hymn to the Sea”, which is also the last track on both the album as well as in the film before the credits portion. The reason this track was chosen instead of the others; such as Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On, the track on the sinking of titanic and the tracks from the escalated point in Titanic film is because that track was played during the scene…

Different Views of the Holocaust Portrayed Through Various Literary Elements “Life is a matter of perspective. It can be amazing or wonderful, or it can be depressing and worthless” (Gray, n.d.). This quote from Stephen Gray exemplifies both aspects of life in according to how one perceives it. As a result, some people choose to see life negatively instead of focusing on the positive aspects that make life great. When juxtaposed, Elie Wiesel’s (2006) book Night and the movie “Life is Beautiful”…

The story begins with rainfall, creating an ominous mood, forshadowing a fortokeing event. Within the text rain symbolizes change because the main character transforms from a human to a bird. Societally rain symbolizes the individuality and uniqueness present in America. The disparity between raindrops represent American people and their different cultures, livelihoods, or beliefs.I chose to make the main character in the story a bird to symbolize freedom and independence. These are two ideals I…

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story and fairytale author, poet, essayist, and editor. She has often been praised for creating characters that speak their mind, especially those who were grammatically incorrect and improper. Although she disregarded the rules for children’s literature in the nineteenth century by creating these flawed, though loveable characters, children could identify with them more than the angelic children that other books shaped children of that time…