... try and clarify the meaning of this book - the author's meaning - but the superficial nature of its story certainly puts it in a category of post-modernist writing. Rushdie has painted a picture of social agenda utilizing the literary tools of fiction, fantasy, allegory, and a dash of imagination to bring us an example of modern-day metafiction. Trying to put things in context ... metafiction as "fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality" (2). The ...

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... the Old; modern society against southwestern Indian culture. In The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia she formalized this tension in a technique of embedding, allowing fragments of a legendary history-Cliff Dwellers, conquistadores-to surface momentarily and disappear. In The Professor's House, embedding became a central, self-conscious structure, with "Tom Outland's Story" opening what Cather called a "window" to a stronger, cleaner past ... ...

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... takes away from this short story the emptiness felt by Charlie as a result of his materialistic life style in Paris. "He (Charlie) remembered thousand-franc notes given to an orchestra for playing a single number, hundred-franc notes tossed to a doorman for calling a cab. But, it had been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an ... ...

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... takes away from this short story the emptiness felt by Charlie as a result of his materialistic life style in Paris. "He (Charlie) remembered thousand-franc notes given to an orchestra for playing a single number, hundred-franc notes tossed to a doorman for calling a cab. But, it had been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an ... ...

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... the TV even though he knows Nurse Ratched had turned it off: And we're all sitting there lined up in front of that blanked-out TV set, watching the gray screen just like we could see the baseball game clear as day, and she's ranting and screaming behind us. If somebody would of come in and took a look, men watching ... ...

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... of the days because he knows there is hate around him, and he wants to dwell on that alone. Everything finishes the way a nature dictated: the days became rainy, and gray. Finny's life started to move towards its death, the carnival, which pictured the important symbolic point of passage for the Olympian spirit its flame of Life from Phineas to Gene ... ...

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... America, having to make unusual sacrifices to ensure well-being of the family. Barely reading past the first paragraph the author places, a distinct and precise picture in your mind of just what the setting is like where Rosa's family is living. By uniquely describing the setting throughout the story, it allows ... the reader can adapt and relate to, throughout the reading of the story. The author of Recuerdo seems to have the ability to place a perfect picture in the mind of her readers, and this is clearly evident in this short story. In fact, the first couple of sentences of the story...

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... with vivid imagery making her a round character, while the narrator being so generalized remains a flat character. "When we saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray" (96.) Another contrasting element relating to the theme is how Miss Emily is a static character that remains essentially unchanged throughout the ever-changing action of the times, as opposed to ... ...

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... side of him is vulnerable to Montresors pompous and skillfully wicked character. The descriptions of what chracters wear and how they act makes the story more realistic and easier to picture the characters as realistic people. In depth scene descriptions including carnival as well as the Montresor cellar really engulf the reader in these realistic surroundings. The ... picture that Poe paints in the reader's mind about each scene really proves the story is a true literary piece. Descriptions are given about room sizes, materials the walls are made of, ... ...

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... subject of The Tax-Gatherer is concerning the underdog which is Martha Williamson; this is done partly through the use of characterisation. The first chance we are given to build a picture of the woman is from the surroundings in which she lives. The home is in a state of disrepair with overgrown weeds and desperate attention towards the state of the house ... powerful clean-cut unfeeling bureaucracy that we would expect from his title. This is however not what someone who is new to the tax-gathering job is like. The first picture we get we get of the tax-gatherer is of someone who is v...

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... audience, captured its imagination for a short period of time, and left the people laughing or staring in wonderment" (431). It is difficult to strongly agree with Zipes opinion, as he notes on page 428 that one of the crucial functions that the literary fairy tale served was to encourage dreaming, miracles, and the use of imagination, and this is also what ... ...

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... , the white of their clothing raises them to an unattainable angelic status while theor dresses fluttered like a butterfly- fickle and temporary. Throughout the novel, the composer uses language to paint a picture of his characters and, as in the case of Daisy and Jordan, this ... ...

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... digital storytelling depends upon the user's - the audience's - sense of narrative intelligence: "how to portray and sustain a character, how to develop a situation to a crisis and resolution, and so forth." She notes that the success of a given experience relies on (1) the improvisational skill of the players, (2) the situations in which they find themselves, and (3) the robustness of the virtual environment's interactivity. It ... ...

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... generally catered to those who wish to experience something in a format that doesn't involve much investment, whether that be time or emotional. You are granted the privilege of painting the picture of the story as you see it without visual stimuli. You ask questions, make assumptions, and develop character personalities and details not otherwise provided. When we view films we are ... ...

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... reader a better understanding of who these people are. Sharon Old uses the known environment of New York and the technological advancements in our everyday physical world to further paint the picture of the suicidal character's environment at the buildings edge. The setting of new technology, both in the form of "iron stairs through the roof of the building" (Old ... ...

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... can only give readers basic understanding of context. But accurate historical fiction will give us a first-hand account to piece together all the attitudes/emotions of people and get a complete picture through the viewpoint of the person(s) involved. However, I believe there are disadvantages with historical novelization. A piece of historical fiction work cannot stand alone. You would not be able to understand ... ...

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... can bring. For instance in one scene in the book Christopher exclaims to a lady trying to help him "ill stab you with my pocket knife". We can really picture this happening in real life and laugh at the dispassion and unreason at which Chris does this, but it can also increases our knowledge of his condition and this is ... ...

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... resentfulness, anger, and jealousy for this reason. The inclusion of this event in the story could be interpreted as a criticism how people succumb to these feelings without understanding the whole picture of what is really happening. On the conclusion the father explains to him the real reason for why he is celebrating, which is the way in which the younger son ... ...

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... very calm and common even with the conflict that amplifying the story's mysterious mood. Because the story contains an unreliable narrator, we cannot trust that we are seeing the real picture or truth of the story. Exploring how Edgar Allan Poe depicts the atmosphere in his story by utilizing various stylistic devices such as diction, symbolism and metaphor, teaches us how ... ...

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... story, The Moment Before the Gun Went Off captured the heart of the country in a way that no other story during the time period could, a snapshot not only containing the picture of what was happening, but the feeling in the air, the thoughts on everyones minds, and what everyone knew was eventually coming. With such a large impact on so many people ... ...

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... work for a pound." Even though, in both cases where the reader encounters Rip Van Winkle, Rip only counts as one main character. Characterization occurs when the author draws an overall picture of the characters. Characterization happens in two ways in literature, by description and personality. The author uses the words a story to describe a character or imply the appearance of the characters ... ...

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... characters but real people. The use of the epistolary form gives the novel a sense of dramatic immediacy as events are revealed to the reader soon after they occur and a full picture of Celie's character gradually emerges. Celie's letters give the opinion that she is writing in the moment and a relative sense of spontaneity is conveyed. However, an obvious disadvantage of this ... ...

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... at the Agricultural Fair. Minnelli clearly recognizes the dramatic possibilities of the ballroom scene: "[his] instincts told him that in cinematic terms this world be the dramatic highlight of the picture--the occasion for Emma's illusions and Charles' forebodings to converge in a turbulent sea of music and movement" (201). He creates a visual tour-de-force which is still studied in film ... ...

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... the question if this man has good moral values or characteristics of those needed by a father. Shifting from one scene to the next, the pool brings additional information into the picture, giving a generalization of what the father lives like. At his apartment, the pool is "smaller than it sounded on the phone," and the front lawn has "patches of bright-green ... ...

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... ultimately the resulting theme. The writer chose to start the story with a quite extensive build-up of the stories two main characters, Hawkheel and Strong, which I felt then set the picture for the rest of the story. She firstly detailed Hawkheel starting off when he was a "half-wild boy" where she described him "smashing" branches giving the impression that he was ... ...

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