teach lessons about life. Within that purpose‚ authors write science fiction stories with elements of science fiction. This essay will be comparing and contrasting three elements of science fiction‚ which are technology‚ imaginary characters‚ and surprise ending by two stories‚ “Zoo” written by Edward D. Hoch and “The Ruum” written by Arthur Porges. The first element that will be discussed is technology. Technology that the story “Zoo” uses is spaceship‚ and the story “The Ruum” uses are spaceship
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the wife throws a surprise party‚ of sorts‚ for her husband‚ but instead of being surprised and grateful‚ he becomes “hotly embarrassed‚ and indignant at his wife for embarrassing him”. This is ironic because the reader first believes that he will be delighted‚ but their expectations are not met. The author uses the irony to contradict what the readers expect and create drama and suspense. The irony also serves as a lesson that actions can be misleading and to expect the unexpected.
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happened." Douglas Adams The opening line: "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move‚" pretty much tells the reader what to expect throughout the book: the unexpected. The unexpected is exactly what Douglas Adams specializes in during THE RESTAURANT
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to create this surprise. This intensive contrast captured Lellie’s moment of life change to be more dramatic. Finally‚ the author captured this moment of life change in an unpredictable and ironic way. The author manipulates us to believe Lellie is dumb by the frequent use of the word. Plus‚ most of the story is told at Duncan’s point of view and we didn’t see much of Lellie’s thought at a deep level. All of the descriptions of Lellie’s naïve personality lead us to this unexpected moment of change
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Dana Butler 12/08/14 Music of the 18th Century Derived from the Portuguese barroco‚ or “oddly shaped pearl‚” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenth century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750. Comparing some of music history’s greatest masterpieces to a misshapen pearl might seem strange to us today‚ but to the nineteenth century critics who applied the term‚ the music of Bach and Handel’s era sounded overly ornamented and exaggerated
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downfall. Arguably‚ people must develop strong character traits in order to succeed and get along with each other. But sometimes life is not that neat and easy. Character strengths are challenged in a world filled with pressures resulting from unexpected surprises and unbearable expectations. These challenges result in inner struggles that Phineas and Lance Armstrong cannot overcome with their strength of character. Having a strong character does not always lead to good outcomes. The character strengths
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adrenaline. Especially when the murder is unexpected and scary. Then the audience enjoyed it so much‚ they want more and cannot wait for the next murder. When I have
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Explore the manipulation of expectations in ‘Great expectations’‚ with particular reference to the first eight chapters. By Narmina Clark Charles Dickens manipulates the reader’s expectations greatly throughout the novel; he does this by focusing mainly on his idea of the ‘social class’ in society and how his characters transform through lessons learnt of their own life experiences. He subtly gives the information across‚ while controlling the readers mind’s with style as he slowly unravels
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the bottle of whiskey in his pocket. He desperately wants a cigarette to catch him and instantly‚ a bullet hits the wall near him‚ He rises to look over where he was‚ but another bullet will pink his head and crushes against the ceiling. In an unexpected moment a man arrives in an armored car and the sniper believes that he was an enemy because he knew that he could not shoot knowing that the bullets would not penetrate‚ however he did not stop pointing until waiting for someone to leave‚ after
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couple who gets an unexpected visitor in the middle of the night. When this visitor asks for a favor the couple must decide whether or not they should help him. This story’s humor belongs to the Incongruity theory because at the beginning of the story when the main character refuses to help someone‚ the audience begins to think that something bad may happen to the husband or the man will be stranded in the rain. But at the end of the story‚ the reader gets a hilarious surprise when what they expect
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