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    interesting book, staying up all night and reading a good, fictional story until you fall asleep, and waking up early just to see how it end. A person’s reason for enjoying fiction can differ but it is almost for the fact that fiction can make the reader feel as if they have been transported to another world. People read fiction for the curiosity and authors can state/make points mixed with their own creativity. In class, we discuss authors and their messages hidden through their story’s plot. The

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    Realistic Fiction Book

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    The genre of the book is realistic fiction. What made this book a good quality realistic fiction book is. That the things going on in the book could actually happen, focus on relationships, and the characters were realistic. The book is for advanced reader, I felt that it was apposite for the age group. Since the text was much more advanced, it had storylines that younger children could not understand. The book talked about controversial issues such as race. Which was a big theme in the book since

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    Amontillado a literary or commercial fiction? People might have thought of giving a revenge on someone that you really hate, but if the revenge is to kill that person, what would it be like? There is a book named "The Cask of Amontillado" which handles this kind of subject. This book seemed to be a fiction, and is this book a literary or commercial fiction? While I was reading the text, I thought the plot, characters, and the theme was more towards the literary fiction. As I read this book, the unique

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    Reading fiction, in my experience, creates an unforgettable vivid mental image in my brain. In “Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading and Daydreaming,” Neil Gaiman asserts that reading fiction is vital for everyone. Fiction can lead to answers. It has the power to teach us lessons that plain non-fiction cannot. Moreover, fiction can improve our imagination. It can let us imagine things that are abnormal for common sense but beneficial for humankind. Perhaps most importantly, fiction can let

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    Dystopian fiction is one such genre. In fact, it reflects the present perhaps more than other genres, as it evaluates current times by creating a possible future. The first documented use of the word dystopian was said in a speech by English politician John Stuart

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    this claim and would less mislead readers by label of “representation”. By its label within literature, nonfiction creates a greater fantasy than fiction. Literature is seen to be separated. Nonfiction is an account of what lies outside the

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    Our future here on this Earth is a bleak one. Our society is on a dangerous slope of promoting vanity at a rate that is ever more increasing, and thus resulting in stunted mental capacities. We are teaching the youth of today to disregard literature as a whole while we shove products and electronics down their throats. With the fast paced changes of social media, there comes a decrease in attention, which is crucial to critical thinking skills, analytical skills, and the time it takes to process

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    Pulp Fiction Essay

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    the postmodern style is characterized by pastiche, intertextuality and nostalgia by referring to Quentin Tarantino’s most talked about, controversial, and black comedy crime film: Pulp Fiction (1994). The films title refers to the American pulp magazines that had graphic violence and punchy dialogue. Pulp Fiction has led critics to describe it as a prime example of homage and pastiche, with plot trends that emerged from the post-classic movie era such as neo noir. There are many critical positions

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    Historical Fiction has been around since the beginning of history. Historical Fiction is always changing and adapting to the new history around us. Since time changes so fast and so much, it is important to learn about the past. When learning about the past it is less likely that one would repeat some of the same horrific actions that happened in the past. Historical Fiction is important because it is the background information to people's knowledge,  it is important for the world to learn and know

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    Someone asked me once why I liked reading young adult fiction and I said that it is within this genre that I am able to read and explore that which most people do not like to talk about. It is this genuinely truthful nature behind the genre that I believe would create a class where students could explore and question the world and the lives people live. Books often times reveal something about society and the time, in which it was written, YA fiction is no exception. Protagonists in YA novels are still

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