...Hanging from a branch in a tall tree was a monkey named Max. Max was practicing his flips when he fell to the ground, hitting his head. Hours later Max awoke forgetting where he was and where he belonged. Looking around, he noticed there were four different paths around him. Wanting to know where he belonged, Max decided to see where each path would lead him. Walking down the first path, he found some sticky green slime on the ground. That was enough for him to continue and find out more. A little later, Max bumped into a snake who was playing with the slime. "Who are you and what is this slime?" He questions while playing with the slime in his hand. "I'm Sally and this is my science project. I'm a scientist." She said as she bent down to clean up the mess on the floor. "What do scientists do?" Max looked at Sally. "They help you find out more about the world." She responded happily, before continuing with her job. Max thought about it and decided that it was too messy for him, and continued to go down a different path. The next path was full of hard metal parts and big towers that lit up the sky. Max, being as curious as he is, was amazed and kept going. Paying too much attention to the bright lights, Max ran into a pole when a tiger came along to see if he was alright. "What are these lights?" Max asked while sitting on the ground from his fall. "They're towers to give everyone electricity" responded the tiger. "Electricity?" Max questioned. "Yes, electricity. It...
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...immediately noticed. It was familiar all though prior to that morning he had never seen her before. Although it was if he had known her his whole life. It was welcoming and warm. as if her being around him was enough to invoke it. Although he knew this wasn't the case. She had a brilliant presence about her. the kind ascribed to Hollywood actresses. yet she was far more approachable and welcoming. This Frank you mentioned I'm not sure I'm familiar with exactly who that is. "Oh I'm sorry. Frank is Attorney Geradi. It's a bad habit of mine to call Mr Geradi by his first name. "OK then that makes scene now. He certainly makes a showing in the court room" "That he does. they say everyone has a calling, whether they find it or not is another story. Well He certainly found his. It's something he does extremely well." "from what I have seen so far I won't argue that. I had anticipated a much longer day in court. He wrapped it up so fast I had no idea what had taken place. Although there was one thing that to puzzle me. "What's that? I may be able to shed some light on it?" ned as they both laughed. "Shakespeare said "life is but a stage" she remarked. "well I got to tell you. you missed your calling you could be one hell of a actress. "I'll take my long work days over your situation any time" she said with a tone of playfulness. " m...
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... It began with a series of Earth-shattering screams that shook the witches’ home to its foundation. They poured in like pissed off fire ants ready to dismantle whatever it was that had disturbed their nest, only their attack wasn’t in response to any affront, they were the aggressors—the invaders. Cera had remained on the outskirts of her property, the first to Liam’s defense and ready to bear the brunt of the onslaught head-on. Efficiently, and with lightning speed she tore through scores of demons as they descended upon Mount Harrison. Lyanna defended the child at her granddaughter’s six, taking the back side of the property. She moved like an apparition, effortlessly, and without even a slight disturbance of the air. The low-level demons stood no chance as they were forced to play the game out in the inferior human bodies to which they were born. Still, they had the numbers, though, and that alone was possibly enough. No fortress had ever stood and remained standing in the face of an army with endless reserves, endless supplies, and endless time. They hit the house’s entryways hard and were met by a hail of gunfire complements of Evan. Liam screamed when shotgun blasts made themselves known inside the home, and Alex grabbed him pulling the child down behind one of the sofas in the room. Together, she and Katelyn tried to calm the boy by telling him that everything would be alright—a fib in which even a younger child than Liam would never...
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...BRITISH SHORT FICTION IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY This page intentionally left blank British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century The Rise of the Tale TIM KILLICK Cardiff University, UK © Tim Killick 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Tim Killick has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Killick, Tim British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale 1. Short stories, English – History and criticism 2. English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism 3. Short story 4. Literary form – History – 19th century I. Title 823’.0109 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Killick, Tim. British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale / by Tim Killick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6413-0 (alk. paper) 1. Short stories, English—History and criticism. 2. English fiction—19th century—History ...
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...BRITISH SHORT FICTION IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY This page intentionally left blank British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century The Rise of the Tale TIM KILLICK Cardiff University, UK © Tim Killick 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Tim Killick has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Killick, Tim British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale 1. Short stories, English – History and criticism 2. English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism 3. Short story 4. Literary form – History – 19th century I. Title 823’.0109 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Killick, Tim. British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale / by Tim Killick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6413-0 (alk. paper) 1. Short stories, English—History and criticism. 2. English fiction—19th century—History ...
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...Without a heart your body is useless. When your heart stops beating, you live until your brain dies from lack of oxygen, but in this short story the narrator lives perfectly fine while changing hearts. This short story is basically about restarting peoples’ ability to love, but also of how real love can overcome technology in place to fake it. This subject is exactly what the main character is dealing with in the short story “The Rental Heart”. That leads me to the setting of the story. The shorty, “The Rental Heart” is written by Kirsten Logan in 2010. We do not know where and when the short story takes place. Neither do we know if the main character is a he or she. In my interpretation of the short story, I have interpreted the main character as being a she. The main character is portrayed by a third person limited narrator, because we hear the story from the main characters point of view. Seen from the main characters point of view we get a description of the surroundings and feelings the main person is dealing with. The short story has two big flashbacks. Grace is first presented as the girl the main character falls in love with, with no risk of being hurt. On the way to the rental place the narrator looks back and remembers all the times it has been done before and in the end we see the narrator in Grace’s arms again. In the beginning of the short story, we get introduced to the “heart rental place”. This is a place where u can rent a heart and change it when you change partners...
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...BRITISH SHORT FICTION IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY This page intentionally left blank British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century The Rise of the Tale TIM KILLICK Cardiff University, UK © Tim Killick 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Tim Killick has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Killick, Tim British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale 1. Short stories, English – History and criticism 2. English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism 3. Short story 4. Literary form – History – 19th century I. Title 823’.0109 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Killick, Tim. British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale / by Tim Killick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6413-0 (alk. paper) 1. Short stories, English—History and criticism. 2. English fiction—19th century—History ...
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...Outline: I. Short Stories a) Activating Prior Knowledge b) Responding to the Selection c) Short Story Selections 1. Suggested Activities to use with Various Groups II. Oral Tradition Literature – Tall Tales and Folktales a) Analyze characteristics and plots of Folktales and Tall Tales b) Understanding Hyperbole c) Writing a Tall Tale d) Selections of Oral Tradition Literature III. Novel Studies a) Previewing the novel b) Defining and Understanding Elements of c) Character Analysis d) Problems and Solutions of the story IV. Historical Fiction a) Activating background/prior knowledge b) Setting a purpose for reading c) Writing about historical fiction V. Realistic Fiction a) Evaluating Realistic Fiction b) Responding to the selection c) Distinguishing between Fact and Opinion d) Summarizing the Story Chapter 1 – Short Stories: A short story is, like the name says, a short literary composition. The action is compact and every single event is crucial to the development of the plot. The time span covered within the action of a short story could vary from a few hours to days or years. A short story could have elements...
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...“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is a short story every student studying English Composition should read. The narrative explores the difficult topic of abortion which college students should read about. Not only did the story explore the couple's dynamic it also delved into the feelings each partner had about the pregnancy. In “On Reading Fiction”, the author explains that readers enjoy fiction for three reasons, because it is an escape from reality, a possible answer to problems in their lives, and allows the reader the comfort of knowing that others are facing the same problems and feeling the same emotions as them. The author states, “we like it because fiction, as an image of life, stimulates and gratifies our interest in life.” This is without a doubt true, knowledge is power and reading about people’s lives and their experiences gives a leg up to the reader in his or her own life. While there are numerous short stories to choose from, “Hills Like White Elephants” should be part of the curriculum for college students because it digs deep into the conflicts everyone may face at one point in their lives about decision making, relationships, and changing your destiny. Being an ongoing issue in society, the topic of abortion is important to read about. Regardless of gender, reading about abortion is important because both parties should have a say in whether to keep the baby. Although not pointed out in black and white, in “Hills Like White Elephants” the reader...
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...predictions of the future. Science fiction is a genre that includes fictional books about technology and science in a future setting. Popular science fiction novels are 2,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Hunger Games, and The War of the Worlds. But science fiction is also seen in short stories."Old Glory" is a dystopian short story about a future United States. Unlike in The Hunger Games, the narrator does not feel like the setting is dystopian. In the future United States, people cannot say anything they want. If they speak out, they are killed. "Harrison Bergeron" is also dystopian and is a society where everyone must be equal. While reading the story, readers find out that equality in fact is not always right if used...
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...In short fiction stories, the main ideas that the author is trying to communicate are conveyed through the use of developing elements such the setting and characterization. Specifically, these two elements of short story fiction are particularly fascinating and extremely effective in communicating the true “meat” of the stories and communicating the big picture and point of the story. In reading “The Destructors” by Graham Greene and also “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the use of setting and characterization truly enhance the stories to a point to where the reader truly understands the deeper meaning behind the stories. Although these stories are completely different in almost every aspect, they both use the same elements of fiction to effectively communicate the deeper messages intended by the authors. In my opinion, the setting of a story is perhaps the most important aspect of short story fiction. It lays the groundwork and develops a foundation for what lies ahead in the content of the stories. Not only does it lay the foundation for the stories, it creates the mood, allows for the tone to be set and really draws the reader into the story so that they are in the story and can see every detail. In Greene’s “The Destructors”, the setting is created masterfully. We see that it is “the first August bank holiday” and that there is a sort of “gang” of younger boys that is meeting. The next thing we see is an impromptu car park that was the location of...
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...1972-77; Social and Economic Studies, editor, 1972-77; freelance writer and researcher, part-time teacher in communications, publishing consultant, and speech writer, Jamaica, 1977-82; Institute of Jamaica Publications, managing editor, 1982-89; Jamaica Journal, editor, 1982-89; freelance teacher, writer, lecturer, 1989-; University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, visiting lecturer/writer-in-residence, 1990; Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, University of Miami, Florida, director of fiction workshop, 1994, 1995; St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, Dana Visiting Professor of creative writing, 1994-95; University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, writer-in-residence, 1998-99. Life's Work Jamaican-born journalist, poet, and short story writer Olive Senior is one of Caribbean literature's leading feminist voices. Her works, though written in English, remain heavily influenced by the region's patois, and draw heavily upon its oral storytelling traditions. In both her verse and fiction, Senior critiques the political and cultural ties that continue to bind Jamaica to its British colonial past. Her protagonists often find themselves divided between the resulting two worlds of assimilation and preservation, and she gives their speech and inner dialogues a corresponding tone. "In Jamaica, much as in England, diction has traditionally signified place of birth, level...
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...on the book Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works by Kurt Vonnegut. Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works consists of 25 short stories most of which had previously appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Ladies Home Journal, Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, Collier’s Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, Esquire, Venture, and Cosmopolitan. The title story appeared in Playboy magazine the same year the collection was released. Eleven of the stories were reprinted from Vonnegut’s 1961 short story collection Canary in a Cat House (Vonnegut). This paper will focus on four futuristic science fiction stories from the collection. These stories, “Welcome to the Monkey House”, “Harrison Bergeron”, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, and “Unready to Wear” all share a dystopian science fiction theme. Science and technology are supposed to make the world a better place, but instead, Vonnegut concludes they only create a new set of problems (Farrell, “Science and Technology in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut”). Television is often a target of satire in much of his fiction from the 1950’s. He describes it as desensitizing and numbing while deceiving the masses (Werlock). Vonnegut uses satire and pessimism throughout these dystopian stories. Satire is a special form of literature that seeks to uncover ridiculous ideas and customs in a society (Mowery). Each story portrays a totalitarian government that proposes an irrational...
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...The Story Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury uses the science fiction genre much better compared to Gloris Skurzynskis's “Nethergrave” because of it's characterization, setting, detail in writing, and the theme of how little things can make a big impact on others. It also contains time travel which always has great potential with paradoxes and the butterfly effect. In this critical response I will be comparing and contrasting both stories and making points such as how the stories fit into the science fiction genre, the characterization between Eckles and Jeremy, the theme/message of the short story, dialogue, and writing style and detail. [1] The science fiction genre fits into both of the stories because of the technology and events that take place in the short stories, for example, in sound of thunder the time travel machine, the dinosaurs, the chaos theory and paradox concepts, and it clearly states it futuristic with the building in the first scene. In Nethergrave it's the virtual world realm dimension controlled and presented by Magus who seems to know everything, and the “video game” seems to be very good graphics if not realistic and that fact that the main character entered the world of Nethergrave. The stories both fit into the category of science fiction proudly but I feel sound of thunder pulls it off better and has a greater climax that really pulls...
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...Poe is best known as the author of numerous spine-tingling stories of horror and suspense. He should also be remembered, however, as the author who helped to establish and develop America’s one real contribution to the world of literature—the short-story form. Poe was the first writer to recognize that the short story was a different kind of fiction than the novel and the first to insist that, for a story to have a powerful effect on the reader, every single detail in the story should contribute to that effect. His stories and criticism have been models and guides for writers in this characteristically American genre up to the present time. No one who is interested in the short-story form can afford to ignore his ideas or his fiction. Poe was influential in making American literature more philosophical and metaphysical than it had been heretofore, especially in terms of the dark Romanticism of Germany rather than the sometimes sentimentalized romanticism of New England Transcendentalists. Poe also helped to make periodical publishing more important in American literary culture. American writing in the mid-nineteenth century was often discouraged by the easy accessibility of English novels. Lack of copyright laws made the works of the great English writers cheaply available; thus, American writers could not compete in this genre. Periodical publishing, and the short story as the favored genre of this medium, was America’s way of fighting back. Poe was an important figure in...
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