Science fiction stories are fictional stories with scientific theories that explains known phenomenon or predicts new phenomenon. ... When the atomic bombs were used in a way that science fiction had predicted, science fiction got more promotion and found many new readers. Science fiction was seen as serious literature, perhaps because people thought that it could predict the future. ...
Knowing this, we can predict, that Ralph will eventually be alone; foreshadowing also plays a major part in the novel when Jack backs away from killing the trapped pig. ... From this we can predict that Jack will become uncivilized and violent. ...
The end of the short story "The Lottery" was unexpected, but it was possible to predict the end because the author had left some foreshadowing. ... This lets us know that there's something strange, dark and sinister going on and, therefore , we can predict what's going to happen later on. ...
Grapes of Wrath Not only was Grapes of Wrath a terrific literary piece but it was an artistic masterpiece. John Steinbeck could have never predicted the success of what would probably be called his masterpiece Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck went out to write an honest novel, and created a book tha...
Lonely Marty Minor characters can often play major roles in the outcome of a play or tale. In Paddy Chayefsky's play Marty, there are several minor characters that contribute to Marty's life in a major way. The play without these characters would decrease the motivation and purpose shown by the ...
Lonely Marty Minor characters can often play major roles in the outcome of a play or tale. In Paddy Chayefsky's play Marty, there are several minor characters that contribute to Marty's life in a major way. The play without these characters would decrease the motivation and purpose shown by the ...
This short story provided excellent descpitions of beliefs and betrayal in the characters. By using this form, flannery O"Connor gives the story a sense of reality. Appearing to be the narrator of this story Mrs. Hopewell is divorced with one child. She is a woman of great patience who believes t...
In the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, setting plays an important key role. It creates irony because the ending of the story completely contradicts the upbeat impression that the reader gets all throughout it. Jackson creates this irony very well in her writing. She keeps it going ...
Humans have been progressing in technology as fast as time passes. Soon, in the near future, humans will be able to create machines far beyond our imagination. In time, humans would have to learn how to co-exist with robots and machines. But will robots learn how to co-exist with humans? In the poe...
The short work, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,"" by Ambrose Bierce, showcases a fine example of a crux in the first of the story's three parts. The crux is highlighted in the following quote: "As these thoughts, which have to be set down in words, were flashed into the doomed man's brain rather...
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor that depicts the tragic end of a family that consists of a father (Bailey), a mother, their children (June Star and John Wesley), a baby, and the main character, the Grandmother. The family goes on a vacation together ...
Jane Austen, the famous 18th century novelist, inherited the tradition of using letters and giving them a natural shape in the form of dialogues and further, making them a successful fictional composition. She reveals the same virtue of using letters as a dramatic device in her famous novel Pride an...
In John Marsden's novel of Tomorrow When the War Began (TWTWB) the characters face a number of life threatening situations that force them to change and adapt in order to survive in their new, 'war zone', environment. Once the invasion had started, Homer completely transformed as a person. ...
Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" is an excellent short story of tragic irony. The beginning of the story opens with Mrs. Louise Mallard being told by a friend of her husband that her husband, Mr. Brently Mallard, has been involved in a terrible accident and is now dead. They tell her carefully b...
Different mediums of production have different purposes, audiences and techniques available to them, creating a different impression of a story. The visual and audio elements of the film medium have the capacity to convey many pages of written description in a single moment, but in order to compress...
One of the key elements of science fiction is its ability to enlighten as well as to entertain. An age old form of entertainment and enlightenment is the myth, or tales of legend. In very many science fiction stories we can see various elements of mythology, or at least mirrors of the same type ...
Flannery O"Connor's Magnificent Use of Foreshadowing in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Foreshadowing is a literary technique used by many authors to provide the reader with a glimpse of future events that will transpire within the work, thereby hooking the reader into the story and retaining the r...
Introduction In the novel A Simple Plan, by Scott Smith, the reader discovers how a peaceful, quiet and happy life of a person can be instantly changed by an event which he or she considered to be a sign of happiness and prosperity. However, sometimes those events, which we often dream abou...
