... Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award. Past Master is one of Lafferty's better-known books. In the year 2535, a utopian civilization has achieved the earthly paradise, Immanent Zed the Echelon, and is now in inexplicable crisis, facing extinction. Saint Thomas More is fetched out of the past to solve ... weirdly charming novel of innocence and experience layered onto a mystery seething with vivid characterizations and magical realism. Shake again. The exact latitude and longitude of Paradise: go there and see, Shake, the exact name written upon the Devil's tombstone. This book is a strange ...

• Word Count: 2850
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... he discovers the bloody sow's head impaled upon a stake in the middle of the clearing. The bloody offering to the beast has disrupted the paradise that existed before-a powerful symbol of innate human evil disrupting childhood innocence. Motifs Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help ... group of English boys was shot down over the ocean. It crashed in thick jungle on a deserted island. Scattered by the wreck, the surviving boys lost each other and cannot find the pilot. Ralph and Piggy look around the beach, wondering what has become of the other ...

• Word Count: 11237
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School

... get in bed and horribly in love with her man. Anthony is broke, drunk, and is returning home from the war. Book three portrays Gloria and Anthony who have totally lost their youth, their dreams, and every last ounce of love they had for each other. They are used up, spent, and pathetic. Gloria takes a shot at being in the cinema ... , Dick becomes a fourth-rate writer. He says, "You know these new novels make me tired. My God. Everywhere I go some silly girl asks me if I've read This Side Of Paradise. " (p.421). Through this clever touch, Fitzgerald is advertising his own first novel. "A...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School