...3 is creating a complex argument that creates a claim for you paper. That claim needs to have stakes. Stakes are basically risks you paper takes in arguing your point. The argument should persuade the reader your way. The claim is essentially what gives your paper direction. It is the main point you are trying to make. The claim is like the heart in the body, without it you can’t survive. It pumps blood through the whole body just like the claim gives direction to every paragraph. This is important because you need to be able to create an argument which sets the basis for your entire paper. It is what gives the paper direction. One basically needs this skill when writing any paper. It can be used in almost every class you have to...
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...Ada Deniz Tan Dr. Aslı Değirmenci IED 134 20 May 2015 Stereotypes of a Fantasy Novel Protagonist Fantasy novels are very popular between not only children and teenagers, but also people of all ages. There are so many fan of the fantasy novels, films and television series of them are produced and almost each other was in vogue usually at young population when they are released. As fantasy novels have gained a great population and so many example of them released in time, they have become obviously an extended part of world literature. Moreover, they have so many genres, subgenres, rules, aims and stereotypes like other types of literary works. In fantasy novels, it can be said that elements and genres are usually similar, however, characteristics of protagonists, which means main character, and other characters are sometime strictly differs between themselves. I read the book The Magicians by Lev Grossman, the first book of Magicians trilogy, one of New York Times Bestseller books, which is published in 2009. In this research paper, my aim is to analyze stereotypes of a fantasy novel protagonist with analyzing the characteristics of Quentin Coldwater from the novel The Magicians. Lev Grossman was born in 26 July 1969, in America. He graduated from Literature Department of Harvard University in 1991 and has worked as a journalist and a cult critic for Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly and so many other newspapers...
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..."Sometimes literature can teach us that conflict is inevitable when pride is at stake." A Streetcar Named Desire is based on betrayal, happiness, and drama. The quote explains about Blanche and Stanley's pride of the difference between fantasy vs. reality. Blanche Dubois, is Stella's older sister. She is a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi and is also in her 30s. She left her town and went to her sister's house in New Orleans. She hoped she can start a new life and leave her past at Laurel. Stella is married to a man name Stanley Kowalski, who is kind to his friends, loves Stella a lot, but dislikes Blanche. Throughout the play he is always nasty to her and tries to destroy Blanche's mental emotions. The theme of the play is fantasy vs. reality. Stanley shows it throughout the play. Stanley shows how powerful and shows pride. In Scene 4, Blanche tells Stella that they must talk. Blanche tells Stella that she doesn't like the way that Stanley treats her and he is not a gentleman. She refers Stanley to animalistic man, and calls him common. He overheard the conversation, this made him upset and hurt. When Blanche first came to New Orleans there seemed tension already with Blanche and Stanley. Stanley enjoys keeping his roles in his home, shows that he is the man of the house. He likes spending time with his friends and his love for Stella is very important to him. Ever since Blanche has came to the Kowalski's house, Stella has been paying more attention...
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...The Fantasy Appeal in the Hobbit Fantasy is a type of genre that allows the reader to experience a place or world unlike any they have before. Fantasy lifts all our ideas of reality, and allows us to be a part of experiences that we would otherwise have no chance of taking part in. One of the first genres to be used in literary fiction was romance and this genre embraced fantasy by creating princesses and princes fighting an epic battle and mythical creatures such as dragons, Vampires and Ghost. In this paper I will explain how J.R.R Tolkien “The Hobbit” fits the genre of fantasy. This is important because every writer has there own writing style and there favorite genre. The novel “The Hobbit” by J.R.R Tolkien fits the characteristics of the fantasy genre because it has everything a fantasy book would have such as mythical creatures, wizards and an epic hero. J.R.R Tolkien was a scholar of English language and was a professor at oxford. He Specialized in Anglo Saxon and medieval literature. Tolkien being writing fantasy novels in 1976 and has said “No other Genre can put you in such a magical state expect fantasy”(A Short History of fantasy pg.123). J.R.R Tolkien has explained that his love for fantasy goes back to his childhood and when he would read books and forget about everything and everyone around him. J.R.R Tolkien has used every aspect of fantasy in his book “The Hobbit”. The majority of fantasy is based in a medieval-type setting, a unique fantasy world...
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...Genre Theory is used in the categorization of films. Genres are dependent on various factors such as story line, whom the director is, and what are the audience expectations In using genre theory we create a short cut in how we describe films. Genres are categorized into and then sub categorized depending on the story and plot. Fantasy is a genre described as, “Any film with obviously unreal, magical, or impossible situations, characters, or settings, often overlapping with various other genres, especially science fiction, but sometimes historical dramas.” (Goodykoontz, 2014) Fantasy is a genre that typically includes a crossover genre, sci-fi, comedy, drama, even horror. The Harry Potter series is a great example of a fantasy genre with crossover and sub genres. It can be categorized also as a family film, and dependent on which movie in the series we are discussing, mystery, romance, and comedy as well. Harry Potter focuses on magic and the wizarding world which is central to it being a fantasy film, an escapism experience. This type of fantasy is a contemporary fantasy with the storyline playing out in modern times. For the purpose of this paper I will focus on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. “The story at its simplest level is the idea about what happens, who does it, and all the reasons behind everything. The writer then chooses key characters and events, and arranges them into the order in which the audience will experience them. In other words, the writer turns...
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...Charlotte Gilman's demented short story “the yellow wallpaper” uses first person point of view to emphasize the narrator's progression of mental insanity throughout the story. The reader is lead first hand along the character's slow creep from a lucid nervous women to a delusional, untrusting, psychopath. In the beginning of the story Gilman describes the narrator as a lucid weak minded character that is well aware of her own nervous condition but is averse to the treatments enforced by her husband John. The narrator is mindful of her condition and would “fancy if it had less opposition and more society and stimulus.” The narrator yearns for less people trying to conceal her in attempt to fix the condition but instead wants to have more interactions with the outside world, she believes that will be a far better plan of treatment for herself but john disagrees. This leads the reader to believe that narrator is confident in her opinion towards her condition but their view of the narrator is changed when she continues on saying “— John says the very worst thing I can do is think about my condition” but she is forced to because she has no one else to talk to since john concealed her in the room. The narrator interrupts her own train of thought by recalling johns instruction, this shows the husband's authority over her very own state of mind. Gilman allows the reader to connect with the narrator through first person, bringing forth the realization of the narrator being physically...
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...Feeding on Fantasy The article “Feeding on Fantasy”- by Lev Grossman, is about the peoples passion for fantasy, which, in his head, is taking over the world of science fiction. The way he’s writing is neither critical nor real passionate. I wouldn’t say Mr Grossman is a real fantasy lover he knows his stuff and is using a lot of facts, but I’m more sure that he doesn’t like science fiction and in that way fantasy isn’t that bad to him. He’s not really into the whole Blizzard1 world, but he still somehow finds it exciting in a mysterious way. He says, “The business of fantasy has become a multibillion-dollar reality, and science fiction is starting to feel, well, a little 20th century.” The “well” in the sentence is clearly a sarcastic way of harassing science fiction, which also clears my statement that he has nothing left for the “so last year” –fashioned genre. This text is referring to that people in these years are tired of the sci-fi (the feature) world, so we are starting to go back and living this vision we have about the past, and we add these incredible creatures to it, that doesn’t exist, so that we can dream about these wonderful landscapes where the sun is always shinning, this passion about this everlasting love between the marvellous man winning his dream girls heart after a rough, very long and extremely dangerous trip crossing the country to defeat the monster who’s keeping them from being together, and this huge gap between being rich and poor and how God always...
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...Unlike the RIP, I got started on this right away and was able to do a significant amount of research and structuring of the essay completed early. To begin the writing process, I looked back at my freewrite to create a clear thesis for my paper: Tolkien fills his writings with many eurocentric themes to emphasize the distinction between good and evil within the story, distracting audiences from understanding the rationalities and reasonings behind the villains. I felt this was a good basis for a paper as it was narrow enough to have specific talking points, while not being too specific. At the same time it was also not so broad that I could discuss anything and everything in Tolkien’s writing. I then started to do some research behind the topic which I found quite easy as there is a lot of information on both eurocentrism and the villains of Tolkien’s books. Because I had drawn inspiration from my anthropology class to create this thesis, I thought back to the readings I had done for that class and chose to use the reading which related to Tolkien’s writing the most. I had also been given a recommendation in...
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...come. This paper will investigate one of the trends Popcorn has identified – Fantasy Adventure – particularly focus on its development in the last ten years. I will examine related evidence observed in various industries and make the claim that this trend has not declined but further developed. Fantasy Adventure refers to the behavior that consumer crave excitement and stimulation as an escape from stress and boredom in essentially risk-free adventures.(Popcorn, 1998) The excitement are taken in small doses, and allow us to return to our “normal” life at the end of the day. They make us feel courageous, open to new exotic experience, and most important of all, they give us the sense of transforming to a better person. There are three underlying forces in creating this trend: the increasing stress brought to us by our routine yet increasingly competitive life, the rising number of cases of the unsafe, uncertain events happening around our environment and the advancement of technologies. In the 1990s only 40% percentage Canadians reported stress in workplace but the statistic had increased significantly recently.(JobStress, 1997) More than 6 in 10 Canadians reported in 2002 that they have experienced a “great deal of stresses at work because of the increasing difficulty to maintain work-life balance while managing the greater then ever demand at work. (StressMap, 2002) Popcorn (1998) pointed out in her book that we all want to retreat from the reality with Fantasy...
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...there are a lot of different types of offenders, building a treatment program is seen as a difficult task. Sexual offenders vary in terms of their characteristics, and their reasoning behind their acts. They are viewed as a heterogeneous group; which means that their types vary according to their characteristics. In order to help keep our society safe, it is important for us to understand the reason as to why sexual offenders commit the acts that they do. It is also important to understand the different types of treatments offered to sexual offenders, and if it reduces any risks of recidivism. This research paper will demonstrate ten different articles with ten very different analysis as to why sexual offenders offend, and what kind of treatment can be offered in order to reduce the chance of recidivism. Types of sexual offenders In order to fully understand this paper we first have to identify, and explain each typology of sexual offenders. What is a sexual offender? A basic definition of a sexual offender is someone who commits a sexual crime against someone. According to the encyclopedia of social and behavioural sciences “Sex offenders force another person to engage in sexual contact against their will. Such force may be physical, psychological, or both. The term ‘sex offender’ usually refers to those who have been apprehended by legal authorities, although sexually coercive behavior is also committed by those who are not caught” (Encyclopedia of social behavioural...
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...Throughout literature history, there have been many famous muses and writing groups. These range drastically, from lovers inspiring historic masterpieces to rival bestsellers sparking friendships. For example, J.M.Barrie and his links to the Du Maurier family, influencing his classic Peter Pan; F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway famous case of ‘frenemy’-ship, the list goes on. It’s fascinating, thinking of all of these famous literary names having bonds, and inspiring each other. However, those mentioned are just the tip of the iceberg. There was one group in the 130s that produced some of the most influential fantasy literature of our time. Interestingly enough, this incredible group is fairly unknown. And, that group would be ‘The Oxford Inklings.’...
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...Despite Catherine’s initial disappointment of the inexistence of her stereotypical gothic expectations of the abbey which ‘Henry had endeavoured to alarm her by the description of’ (p.117), Catherine’s excessive gothic fantasy continues to transcend. Through Austen’s use of free indirect discourse, the reader is aware of Catherine’s uncontrollable pursuit of pleasure by encountering the gothic. –REPEATING? Determined to find this pleasure, the reader is presented with Catherine’s psychological state of mind in which she denies rejecting the gothic as reflected by her transfixion of ‘motionless wonder’ (p.118) as she begins to form/question the possibility of gothic mystery behind everyday objects: ‘This is strange indeed! I did not expect such...
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...sincere regret by the lieutenant Jimmy Cross. The use of syntax and detail can be easily seen throughout the entire passage, especially in describing Ted Lavender’s death “[He] carried 34 rounds when he was shot and killed outside Thai Khe, and he went down under an exceptional burden, more than twenty pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and helmet and rations and water and toilet paper and tranquilizers, and all the rest, plus the unweighed fear.” (O'Brien, 1990) By using compound-complex sentence and listing “twenty pounds of ammunition, flak jacket, helmet, rations, water, toilet paper and tranquilizers [and most importantly], the unweighed fear” (O'Brien, 1990), O'Brien demonstrates not only the physical burdens but also the emotional burdens that a young soldier endures to convey the reader that not only the weight each soldier has to carry in order to survive, but also the weight of their emotional burden. At the same time, Lieutenant Cross feels the pain and guilt because he could have done something to save the young man’s life. Instead, he is addicted in his fantasy towards Martha: “He pictured Martha’s smooth young face, thinking he loved her more than anything, more than his men, and now Ted Lavender was dead because he loved her so much and could not stop thinking about her.” (O'Brien, 1990) By...
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...points specifically to how Helms drew more attention to the art that he wished so passionately didn't exist. Two different sources that Meyer uses to support his argument are that of "The Force of Fantasy: Feminism, Mapplethorpe, and Discursive Excess," written by Judith Butler and the conflict that surrounded Piss Christ. A large, colored photograph of a crucifix submerged in a bath of pee. By using Judith's writings, Meyer points towards how Helms gets a particular description of a picture wrong. By doing this, Judith writes, Helms is summoning his fantasies of erotic...
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...The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, shows the slow progression of insanity the narrator/Jane experiences through the fixation of the yellow wallpaper. In the beginning the narrator seems to be stable, she expresses her shock and pleasure of vacationing at the Estate. We go on to learn the true reason and intent her husband John meant for the stay. John felt it to be necessary for a break, to her cure her nervous condition. By hindering her creativity and imagination, with the stifling role of mother and wife, lead her to become more and more unreliable. We question on several occasions whether if it is truly her illness causing the paranoia, or if it is John’s treatment causing her loss of sanity. As soon as...
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