The Shore Book Review

Before the genesis of writing, people’s stories were often personal stories and with that, the culture of a society was shown through the characters and setting. For example, Of Mice and Men tells the story of George’s and Lenny’s friendship; however, it is only a meter within the song of the American Depression. Many fantasy stories, such as Lord of the Rings, work well because the characters and the setting have culture as characters and stories that do not have the same depth often fall flat. The same is true for A Song for Lya. Many science-fiction and fantasy stories’ universes only extend as far as the story will take them, making them appear superficial. The novella, on the other hand, is part of George R.R. Martin’s Thousand Worlds universe, in which humans have battled an alien race called the Hrangan Minds and have colonized to different planets. Despite there being no war in the story, there is culture to the story. The telepathic culture that Robb and Lyanna are both part of is vain and when the protagonists visit the culture of the Shkeen, they are humbled not only by the different language, food, and religion, but also by their superiority in telepathy and

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

When one thinks of a novel, a word that usually will come to mind is fiction. In fact, other meanings for the word novel are new and unique. Although an author may use real places, real time, or base their story on real events in part, their outcome is essentially a creation. We, as readers, are in a sense captive to the writer's imagination and must conform to the rules of the worlds they create.

I know a lot of people asked if your dogs are in Vancouver with you.

On the Waterfront is a classic, award-winning and controversial film. It received eight academy-awards in 1954, including best-picture and director. The director, Eliza Kazan, in collaboration with Budd Schulberg wrote the film’s screenplay. Based on actual dockside events in Hoboken, New Jersey, On the Waterfront is a story of a dock worker who tried to overthrow a corrupt union.

Much of the appeal surrounding science fiction is the fact that a lot of the genre exists far from what we experience in our own world, and far from what exists within our own imagination. The phrase, “cognitive estrangement” has been used to describe the way that a lot of science fiction makes us feel. In his essay, “Estrangement and Cognition,” Darko Suvin describes cognitive estrangement and its relationship with Science fiction as a genre. He writes, “Thus it is not only the basic human and humanizing curiosity that gives birth to SF. Beyond an indirect inquisitiveness, which makes for a semantic game without clear referent, this genre has always been wedded to a hope of finding in the unknown the ideal environment, tribe, state, intelligence, or other aspect of the Supreme Good (or to a fear of and revulsion from its contrary). At all events, the possibility of other strange, covariant coordinate systems and semantic fields is assumed,” which explains that the strange is what drives interest in Science Fiction. He emphasizes that it’s the weird that sets science fiction apart from other genres, including fantasy. This sentiment has been echoed by many other writers. In the same essay, Suvin writes, “The effect of such factual reporting of fictions is one of confronting a set normative system—a Ptolemaic-type closed world picture—with a point of view or look implying a new set of norms; in literary theory this is known as the attitude of estrangement.” This statement

Are you interested in history or about the navajos of world war 2, well I did my book report that I find very interesting, code talker, the author of this book is Joseph Burchac. This book Is based on the Navajos of world war two, that are in war with the Japanese, which takes place back in the 1940’s,The genre of this book is tragedy, and A adventurous book.

Nathan Nuttboard by John Eaton (2002) is a story that has a substantial amount of action and emotional content. This novel is definitely not a boring book. It has short chapters and is a good, interesting read right to the end. This book is about a young boy named Nathan That goes on a family camping trip to a place could paradise bay, while they are there they are faced with some critical situations, valuable lessons, and some harsh conditions. In paradise bay they had a sticky situation which occurred because of a couple events which kept escalating. This book was very relevant to me because I like to surf and this novel showed how quickly something could evolve which may result in a near death situation.

Fiction is a term used to classify a story that focuses on the imagination of the writer instead of history or fact. Many people are able to express their form of creativity through writing because of the different genres included in fiction. A famous fictional story is the “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis and is a part of the Chronicles of Narnia series. The book followed four children, Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter, they travel to a Land called Narnia and with the help of powerful allies they plan to defeat the evil White Witch. Ursula, K. Le Gain, a science fiction writer stated, “While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers.

The possibility of the tale to be written for different audiences and motives allows an intriguing perspective for the reader.

This story is about Ms. Morrison meeting another woman who is sitting fishing at a seawall. They start talking to each other and Ms. Morrison asked her if the woman lived there, but no she did not, she lived in a nearby village. She said that she was just sitting fishing there because the owners of the house allowed her to do that. She said that she came there often, sometimes a few days in a row. After talking for a while they went separated ways, and Ms. Morrison thought she would see the woman at the same spot tomorrow or after a few days. She looked forward to talk with her more, and she imagined them getting friends. But she never showed up, not during the whole summer. When she asked around if anyone knew this woman,

While reading the novel we get the feeling that the novel does not belong to the author but rather to a history, culture or even religion.

Fiction is, and has always been a mirror for the real life. Therefore, literature, as the artistic tool used to deliver works of fiction, has been parallel to history from past to present. As the ideas evolved, the cultures evolved, and as the cultures evolved, literature evolved. However, there have been times when this evolution had help. In its core, this is what happened in the Renaissance era. As people rediscovered the ideas and cultures of the past civilisations, Middle Ages, in which the evolution of thinking was going backwards, came to an end with a leap in thinking style. People realised they have been stuck at one point because of twisted religion and blind violence between people, and learned to look through individual glasses. These new individual glasses gave huge importance to human, rather than vast kingdoms and large groups, and focused on the core. They moved on from their one-sided viewpoint in life, which was giving the ultimate importance to the afterlife, and gave themselves to discovering

and rituals of tribal communities and it is chiefly this element of his fiction which has

There are some travelers who see a “paradise” as their final destination; however, it may end up to be exactly opposite of what a paradise should be. This can be seen in Alex Garland’s The Beach. The novel is about several backpackers, Richard, Francoise, and Etienne, who come together and travel to an island community, their paradise, within Thailand. Ultimately, the story portrays the idea of a utopia-like society taking a turn for the worst and becoming a dystopia, something that the backpackers would not have expected. Throughout the story, the theme of a utopia turning into a dystopia could be seen through symbolism such as the “cancer” of traveling and the destruction that it brings.