EIGHTH GRADE SUGGESTED SUMMER READING BRAGG MIDDLE SCHOOL Gardendale‚ Alabama 2011-2012 FICTION Austen‚ Jane. Pride and Prejudice. In early 19th-century England‚ a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. AR 27.0/Level 12.0. Classic Fiction. Avi. Crispin: the Cross of Lead. Falsely accused of theft and murder‚ an orphaned peasant boy in 14th-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life
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In The essay‚ "Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres"‚ Jean-Loup Bourget discusses what is implied about social groups in movies. In the last paragraph of the essay‚ Bourget asks "Must American society be like this? Must the Hollywood system function like this?" (57). Bourget actually answers these questions within his essay and I agree with his interpretation of the complexity of films‚ especially in regards to context meaning and the meanings implied by techniques. Bourget describes several
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of linguistics with a Ph.D. from Cambridge University‚ argues about the definition of a discourse community. Swales‚ who is also the co-director of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English at the University of Michigan‚ has his response to‚ “Genre
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In the film “Shallow Grave” directed by Danny Boyle several techniques including visual and verbal were used to show the genres and film styles of gothic and film noir as well as exploring ideas of true friendship when it comes to the choice of friends or money. The gothic style consists typically of a castle‚ beast and a mystery. The film opens with the tipsy turvy image of David saying “If you can’t trust your friends‚ what then?” right at the beginning of the film the audience gets hints that
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Al Samarrai 20th Century English Literature 29 April 2007 Araby: Escaping Reality through Fantasy Reality is often bleak. It is only natural when the bleakness becomes too much to bear‚ that fantasies of escape are born. These are latched onto‚ basked in‚ and consumed until they take over the senses and drive the spirit to the edge of feeling. Then‚ they hurl their owners into despair‚ for fantasy‚ in the very end‚ will slam into the harsh wall of reality‚ and dissolve‚ causing despair. In
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Shirley Jackson wrote “The Lottery” the genre is speculative fiction and starts out giving us the date‚ which was the 27th of June and was clear and sunny day‚ but also had the feel of a really hot summers day. The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The Story starts off as a normal story but progresses to be very different and unpredictable including the ending. The introduction starts out as making it sound like a normal place but as you keep on reading the story and
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Genre theory is used as a motion picture category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film. In using genre theory we create a short cut in the way we describe films. In order to understand genre we may look at several examples. When we speak of horror we know that in this category we expect to see monsters‚ blood‚ or the expectation for everyone to die. As for in a western movies we know that there will be cowboys‚ dry climate‚ guns‚ mild violence
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Rape Fantasies: Female Victimization Margaret Atwood¡¦s ¡§Rape Fantasies¡¨‚ a monologue of a woman discus her concern about the topic of rape‚ demonstrates the power struggle between men and women and how female are victimized by the society. Furthermore‚ Atwood talks about the importance of having ¡§voice¡¨ as a power or solution to victimization. In the story‚ there is an exploration of female vulnerability‚ and victimization in the rape fantasies. Atwood through using the voice of the first-person
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Each character in the Noir genre has their own story; secrets and ambitions they are willing to fight for or die protecting. The protagonist of a hardboiled detective novel is no exception to that rule‚ hiding and nursing his damaged past and secrets through bottles of hard liquor. Complementing the his state of perpetual pain is the femme fatale‚ whose destructive tendencies exacerbate the woes of those around her. More often than not‚ the femme fatale serves a dual purpose of catalyzing the devastating
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Genre is a set of codes and conventions that guides both reading and writing‚ but transforming contexts and values bring about changes in such conventions as writers deviate in new ways and create formation subgenres that include new subversions and transformations of the codes. These deviations later solidify into conventions which science fiction writers use to challenge our assumptions about what it means to be human. Within the variety of forms‚ Aldous Huxley’s 1931 dystopian novel Brave New
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