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Intellectual and the Comic in 'The Third Policeman' by Flann O'Brien

"Atomic Theory" (Taaffe, 2002). The novel begins with the frank statement "Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers" (...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien as Fact or Fiction

without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...

Race Issues in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...

President Kennedy's Assassination According to Jim Garrison and Oliver Stone's 1991 Film JFK

(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...

Fiction of the 20th Century and the City

the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...

Goodbye Tsugumi and N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto

narrates her story with forthright honesty. She explains that--while she is named after the Virgin Mary--she is far from saint-lik...

Novel Analysis of Ender's Game

power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you cant...

Opinion Juxtaposition of Second Front Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War by John MacArthur and 1984 by George Orwell

conditioned to blindly follow the directives of Big Brother. For the people, double-speak was perfectly acceptable, and soon they...

White Freedom Rider James Peck's Diary

when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...

Pirates and Are They Fact or Fiction?

country" (Wilczynski, 2004). In addition, we find that many times a government or a leader would actually employ the help of pi...

Civil War Letters

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

Adolf Hitler, Thomas Jefferson, and Frankenstein on Achieving Justice Through the Legitimacy of Violence

fall of the Tower of Anor and the end of the realm of Savron. He encourages the people to:...

Christ A Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles

by the Nazis to advance their agenda (and died insane) and Paveses died by his own hand. Miles posits that Gods intention in i...

Kurt Vonnegut and William Gibson's Science Fiction

cyberworld just ahead of the concern which began to take place in the real world. Unlike many of his predecessors who liked to pre...

Apocalyptic Representation Supporting Authoritarianism in Science Fiction Movies

What often happens though is that there is evidence in some films that the authoritarianism is a positive influence. This is ofte...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

Crime Fiction and Alienation

solve this crime. The extent to which any ethics and morals exist at all reflects the primary aspect that separates each mans lev...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

The Sparrow by Mary D. Russell

conveniently Earth-like, with an oxygen atmosphere, abundant plant-life that is non-toxic for human consumption, and bi-pedal, rou...

Evaluation of Sudden Fiction Edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas

he is about to leave home, his oldest daughter asks her mother to do the can-can. His wife kicks up her heels and begins to dance....

Analysis of Alan Lightman's “The Diagnosis”

has a serious neurological breakdown of his own. Bill has a sudden and disturbing memory loss - he is unable to remember the name...

Science Fiction Writing and Ray Bradbury

realms that were considered science fiction. For example, one looks at his work "The Martian Chronicles" and immediately assumes...

Gates and Jobs and Hewlett and Packard

he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...

Slavery Theme in Dawn by Octavia Butler

power structures and organization are often present in her writing. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe her writing as ...

Four Works of Gary Paulsen Compared

They fought and screamed and never should have been married. I can remember hiding under the kitchen table one day and just wishin...

Myths and Legends Surrounding Vampires

The term "myth", on the other hand, is reserved by anthropologists and folklorists for those stories which deal with the creation ...

Naturalism and Realism in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century

is often an important feature. The individuals portrayed are not depicted as standing outside of their own historical background a...

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Denial

As mentioned before, the first edition of The Martian Chronicles was written in 1950, a time during which the Cold War was startin...

Actor John Travolta

time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...

Education and Historical Fiction Uses

time and place, the cultural and historical reality of the storys characters and the capability and comprehension of the person re...