They can be comprised of only one narrative or a collection of short individual stories. ... From there entire magazines for comics and superhero stories were made. ... The most popular type is the superhero story. ... These are sometimes referred to as perzines, and are autobiographical stories (What is a Graphic Novel, getgraphic.org). ... The combination of that with the illustrations that deepen the expression of the story is the ultimate duo. ...

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Some of Vonnegut's short stories reflected on his life as a young adult, as well. most of his short stories and essays are now collected into one book called, "Welcome to the Monkey House". ... Since then, Vonnegut has gone on to write many more novels and a countless amount of short stories. ... Since then three other movies have come out based on Kurt Vonnegut's novels and several short tv programs have been dedicated to his short stories. ... This affected many things in "Slaughter House Five" along with other short stories that he wrote. ... He expresses his thoughts on life...

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James Baldwin is considered one of the most important African American writer of novels, poetry, short stories and essays, as well as a civil right activist. ... The short story "Sonny's Blues" is considered one of Baldwin's amazing works. ... Sonny is a main character in this story. ... In the short story, the author uses the images of light and darkness to illustrate the theme of man's painful quest for an identity (Murray 354). ... "The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings" by Randall Kenan "is gathering of some sixty previously uncollected essay...

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L"Amour wrote more than one hundred books, including eighty-six novels, fourteen short story collections and one nonfiction-a chronicle of life on the American frontier. ... L"Amour has also published hundreds of stories in at least eighty magazines in the United States abroad. ... His first short story sales concerned the West Indies, football, rodeo, and a few westerns. ... In all, forty-five L"Amour novels or short stories have been made into feature films or television movies (New York Times). ... Among his first published books were some volumes of poetry and stories about the Far Ea...

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The short tales formulate the common themes for the novel as follows: isolation and loneliness, discovery, inhibition, and cultural failure. ... At the end of the story Adventure, Anderson writes began trying to force herself to face bravely the fact that many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg (Anderson, Sherwood). ... The first chapter is called Hands and involves the sad story of Wing Biddlebaum. ... For example, the short moments of embrace shared between him and Elizabeth Willard. ... Through the use of short tales combined to create a novel, Anderson is able to communicate...

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He tried to develop a plan to recover humanity again, and even eventually found a short time companion. ... With only a short notice, the rolls are flipped for Neville from being the hunter to the hunted. ... This allusion draws an analogy to the story because the characters of Dracula are very similar. ... Conflict gives a story an interesting plot as well as adding momentum. Without this element, the story will be very bland with little attraction and plot. ...

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The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952. it is a short and fable story, about an old Cuban fisherman Santiago and his battle against a giant marlin. ... It is a simple story, in which there are only two main characters the old man and the boy. ... On the whole, the story can be divided into parts. ... Therefore, we have a general idea of the background of the story and the unfavourable situation of the old man at the beginning of the novel. ...

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Characterization may be achieved through what other characters in the story say. ... This kind of visual adds interest to the story; being able to put a face on the character makes the story more real and relatable. Characterization is an important element in almost every work of fiction, whether it is a short story or a novel. ... Characters make the story come alive and have more meaning and impact. Without characters there would be no story. ...

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While working as an editor and a writer for The United States Information Service and The Manila Times Magazine in Manila, Jose also engaged in writing short stories and eventually novels. ... This was eventually followed by 5 more novels, five books of short stories and a book of verse. ... The story chronicles how the brothers fought for justice- one by sword, the other by pen. ... However the story is not as original as I had hoped it would be. ... The different life that he has breathed upon the characters and how he depicted the different emotions that each were experiencing gave the read...

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This would have been unbelievable, risible even, at the start of the book, but the reader has become so engrossed in the story, so completely immersed by King's telling of it that even if we were to find it doubtful we would not admit it to ourselves. ... In Stephen King's novels and short stories (excepting the "Dark Tower" series) we are faced with extremely unusual, often even supernatural events, but they happen in a familiar situation to familiar people. ... Even if we are not completely aware of it, there is a likelihood that most people in the English speaking world have at ...

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The story begins on the evening of the last Friday in August 1944, in a small southern town. ... The people in the story spoke as real people of the 1940's would. ... All of this waiting leads up to the climax of the story. ... The claustrophobia was broken by short trips to the outside world. ... Frankie, John Henry, and Berenice played cards two times during the story. ...

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The story follows its main character, Lucí, on her quest to the truth behind the tragic death of her boyfriend, the novelist Lorenzo. ... Numerous flashbacks take the story back and forth in time revealing the course of Lucí and Lorenzo's relationship. ... As the story continues the problems between the two lovers and soul mates build up. ... In my opinion this demonstrates the short-sightedness of the American movie industry. ... I do agree that the movie is slightly too ambitious and that the story does not reach its full potential, even though, it is not a bad effort at s...

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Knowing this, she does a beautiful job of taking what were originally meant to be a series of short stories and creating continuity in what became a novel - with one small exception. ... This intentional breaking point is evident also in the shift from story to story, even within the groups of daughters or mothers. ... However, Jing-mei is a paradigm beyond the placement of her stories. ... The beauty of Tan's story is not something I've overlooked. ... The stories she tells have an everyman ...

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The majority of the story is told in multiple viewpoints, and in the second section of the book, the reader begins to get inside the head of Robbie. ... In fact, these two protagonists serve to move the story forward as their unresolved problems with each other and with the events that were set into motion that night circle around them. ... She has come to realize that affairs of the heart, of the mind, the spirit and body, like those war torn bodies of the war, cannot be mended with nice stories. She finds that the lies people tell themselves are as damaging as a bullet, and the biggest mis...

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The House on Mango Street is a short novel written by a Latina author known as Sandra Cisneros. ... The story takes place in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago most likely around the 1960's. ... In my opinion, I thought this book was a very interesting book to read because of all the little stories it had. ...

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When creating Frankenstein in the 1800's, the story and the idea of bringing in inanimate object to life or even to create new life artificially was something of science fiction or just plain impossible. ... In the past there have been many Frankenstein stories and many people in the field of science have been quick to criticize these works of science fiction. ... Who would've known that in just a few short years, this movie of science fiction would become science "fact!" ... Who would've thought that in a little over a hundred years, the story of Frankenstein would become so...

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Shelley's novel was inspired while she was visiting Byron in Switzerland with her husband, Percy, in which they challenged each other to create a horror story. Many people think that this event happened but we cannot be certain, but the account of how Shelly came upon the story adds to the stereotypical image of the genre. ... Frankenstein begins his story in Geneva, at home with his family, during chapter three, his mother dies of scarlet fever after attending to Elizabeth, whom she contracts it from. ... Biblical and spiritual references are used throughout the story to describe various...

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These things, to him, fall short of his ultimate goal, which is to "fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets.... The second theme that is continuous throughout the story is imprisonment. ... However, HumbertHumbert, in telling his story, uses puns, literary allusions, and repeating linguistic patterns to render this dark tale in an enchanting form. ... In order to uncover the actual story of paedophilia, rape, and murder within the text, readers have to immerse themselves in Humbert's words and their shadowy meanings, and thus they must enter Humbert's mind. ...

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Didactic Fiction in Alcott's Little Women And Barrie's Peter Pan On the surface, children's literature appears to be very straightforward and light-hearted, failing to carry within a particular story any deeper inherent meaning "the language is simplistic, there's a limited viewpoint, and characters oftentimes are portrayed as caricatures. ... Nevertheless, Little Women is a story about teaching and educating young women about maturation, and Alcott effectively uses her characters to relay her messages across to her readers. ... In short, both novels, in their re...

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Yet the narrator is compelled to give a short summary of the man's history. ... But the narrator is vital to the detail and authenticity of the story. ... The narrator, as a "thinking man," tells the story as he sees it (realistically) with as much detail of the characters and customs as possible. ...

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In the end the group seeking a long-term reward beats out the group looking for short- term rewards, as Ralph's group prevails, causing Jack's to lose stimulating death among the other boys. ... Ralph continues to useideas from Piggy throughout the story, but they are ignored more and more. ... As the story progress', Jack's actions give the idea that he is fed up with the way Ralph governed certain circumstances. ... Their characters throughout the story follow the same outline, as both belong to the same choir in the start, and at the end, both hunt and think alike. ...

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In Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha' Roddy Doyle does not use a straight-forward method of narrating his story like Charles Dickens does in David Copperfield, it doesn't have an obvious beginning, middle and end. ... The first chapter in David Copperfield is appropriately called I was born' because Dickens uses David to narrate the story looking back on his life, "to begin with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born."" ... This makes the ideas of the child more meaningful, it is easy for the reader to fall into the mind of Paddy because it is nearly imp...

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In order to do this she painstakingly devotes much time in her short novel to the description of the nature and environment that comprises the novel. As the story progresses, chapter by chapter, the ties between the environment and to the representation of the characters in the novel become more apparent. ...

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Cultural values of the 1960s called for men to keep their hair short, and the greaser style is a clear rebellion of this social convention. ... This idea parallels the movie West Side Story where one gang is seen to be the menace while the other is the real root of the problem. ...

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