... more interactive, multi-sense version of Frankenstein, try Interplay's game version!) The version that I actually skimmed over to perform my analysis allowed me to begin reading from two main angles. Either I could begin at the Table of Contents and read one chapter at a time - read a chapter, back to the ... distracting. In short, it was a very unsatisfying experience. But other than physical unease, how did seeing one of my favorite novels on a monitor affect my reading of it? First off, I found myself very distanced from the story. I couldn't instantly flip between pages to compare a...

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... have a specific theme that I call my favorite. However, I, like most readers would agree, understand what keeps my attention in a good novel: irony, thinking in one direction and then dramatically changing speed and direction in a given situation. Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" displays an excellent and intriguingly ironic plot throughout the course of the story. Le Guin ... who confront it walk away in search for something a little more perfect. However, it is the town's attitude of denial that is the ironic churning force behind their happiness. Before readin...

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The element I am focussing on is the state of mind of the key characters. Upon reading the short story, it is plain to see the author is indicating there is a deeper meaning underlying than trying to obtain luck. In the dramatic DH Lawrence writing of the ... winnings anonymously to his mother to do as she pleases. The climax of this story occurs when Paul fell off his rocking horse one night while riding it at full speed. He screamed "Malabar!" and fell off his horse with a crash knocking him unconscious. Paul remains unconscious for three days. A denouement in the story occurs when Pau...

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... the emotions are infinitively worse than wounds to the body, this can be easily proven from a simple light reading of the story. The first thing the reader recognizes is that the main character is in a hospital. This hospital consists of machines, which speed up and completely heal all wounds to the body. Hence making wounds to the body inconsequential, there is however ... ...

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