Novel: Guide to the Galaxy Author: Douglas Adams Genre: Parody; Fiction Douglas Adams who was born in Cambridge, England in 1952 wrote "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" which was published in 1979. ... The novels sold quickly and inspired Adams to write four sequels following "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". ... Argument over the demands of communication and information were released in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" in 1979. The humor of the novel saved the initial shock from society when the book was first released. ... Literally anything can happen in Adam's book...

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In "The Tradition: Fact and Fiction," Robert Coles says that "in shaping an article or book, the writer can add factors and variables in two directions: social and cultural and historical on one hand, individual, individual or idiosyncratic on the other" ( Coles 177 ). ... Through documentaries, the public is guided see things in a certain way. ... In addition, Coles promotes the addition of both cultural and idiosyncratic factors to shape an article book. Basically, the writer's scope guide the viewer to whatever the photographer wants him or her to see in terms o...

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The ban on the book is almost ironic when approached in the same light as the actual book itself. ... Sandy Lane Avery, a parent who was involved in a drive to have the book removed, said she objected to the book's explicit details. ... One parent even went as far as objecting to the novel's use of terms such as "clairvoyance," "transcendent," and "guided imagery," because these are "all occult New Age practices the Bible tells us to avoid" (Hastings 2). ... In the book, Jonas is upset when he discovers infanticide (Lowry 149). ... Although the book does mention death rather freque...

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Prosecutor Pinard denounced the book, concerned that it would corrupt the public taste. ... In his letters to Louise Colet, he explains his plans for Madame Bovary: "What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the strength of its style, just as the earth, suspended in the void, depends on nothing external for its support; a book which would have almost no subject, or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible, if such a thing is possible. " The book, indeed, is about "noth...

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"Monument 14," by Emmy Laybourne, bears several characteristics, including fear, that defines the novel as a thriller. One characteristic of a thriller novel that is exemplified in Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14, is the ominous atmosphere that gives the novel a foreboding undertone. In Th...

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In Little Women, Alcott accepts this inevitable changeover with the four March sisters maturing as the book progresses. ... The critic Isabelle Jan contends that a child making such a flight into another, dreamlike world is no easy task: Peter, like all children, "require a sponsor and a guide- (68). ... I would argue that he did not have this guide, as his relationships with the other children in the book are far from overwhelmingly cordial. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the normal bounds of reverie. ... (Shelley) Fitting perfect with the ideas of her time, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was a book which required much imagination in order for it to be written. ...

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My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the normal bounds of reverie. ... (Shelley) Fitting perfect with the ideas of her time, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was a book which required much imagination in order for it to be written. ...

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Around the World in Eighty Days is a very fascinating novel. This novel dealt with the quest of Phileas Fogg to travel around the world in eighty days. It is an adventure novel because it retells the adventure of Phileas Fogg and his companions around the world. The theme of this novel is one o...

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The frame work for "Like water for chocolate" as a book divided into monthly installments with romances, recipes and home remedies, establishes the way in which the reader will imagine the experiences in the novel. Like Tita whose way of life is based on the kitchen, the reader must navigate her world through the power of food, guided by the recipes at the beginning of each chapter. ...

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"Everything is Illuminated" was Foer's first novel and was named book of the year by The Los Angeles Times in 2003. Additionally, the novel won the 2002 National Jewish book award and the Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year award. ... Heritage Touring provides Jonathan with a translator, Alex, and Alex's grandfather who is the guide and driver. ...

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The interesting and intricate character of Heathcliff in the 1847 novel "Wuthering Heights" is portrayed in different and complicated ways by the different narrators. Also the emotions he goes through and the way he reacts from different incidents through out his life gives us an insight on his c...

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Part III: Overall Critique Guided by the displaced Huron warrior Magua, four people--Major Duncan Heyward, Psalmodist David Gamut, and Alice and Cora Munro--strike through the wilderness forest for Fort William Henry, which is tormented by the French near Lake George. ... Although the terminology was sometimes hard to understand, I enjoyed the book very much. ...

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The capacity to choose what we integrate into our personal repertoire of images and ideas is both a central function of the moral imagination and a central feature of one's own personal character formation. The moral imagination then is not only a storehouse but also an intellectual guide " (Bohlin,...

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Indeed, the full title of the book is "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" and it is therefore written in first person. ... The conversation between Jane and Helen (pg. 69-70) has a life-long effect on Jane's values and guides her behaviour as an adult. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate