The Canterbury Tales. Geoffery Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is an example of an extremely complicated and wondrous piece of fictional work. This story is a fourteenth frame narrative from Britain. The main story line's plot is a contest between thirty pilgrims on their way to Thomas Becket's Canterbury shrine tell tales. Harry Baily is the lead pilgrim and is identified as "the host," states that in order to win the contest the pilgrim must tell “tales of best sentence and moost solaas,” this means that the pilgrim which tells the tale with a moral lesson and must be entertaining to the group during the few days that it took to make their way from London to their destination (800).
Pine Ridge Players to perform Tartuffe! By Lizzy Parsons Special to the Beacon Remember being little and having your favorite Dr. Seuss stories read to you at night? There were hypocrites, liars, funny little men, and creatures of all sizes. Well, Tartuffe brings that to life, minus all of the silly creatures. “Tartuffe reminds me of a grown up version of a Dr. Seuss book.” says Casey McCall, who plays Mariane, “It really is a great Show, and I think that people will enjoy it a lot.” The audience is in for quite the surprise when they see this show.
(bookrags.com) His work for young adults has also drawn great praise and respect. He is greatly appreciated for his rich language, crazy plots, and sophistication of theme that does not show itself directly in the novel which creates readers to think deeper while reading. (bookrags.com) This analyst would have to say that Tim Wynne-Jones has had a remarkable career in literature. He has won many awards and is extremely popular with the children throughout
After reading ‘Superman and Me,’ the essay written by Sherman Alexie, one can’t help but feel inspired and get that warm feeling inside. My first reading experience was similar to Alexie’s comic in that it was a random piece of literature that was being read. The first thing I ever read was a Christmas letter from my grandma’s neighbor and unbenounced to my family, simply grabbed it and read it from beginning to end. If I didn’t know a word I made it up and kept reading as to not lose my rhythm. For as long as I can remember, I have always been advanced for my grade in my reading abilities but the problem I cross in regards to reading is the interest level.
F.Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, published in the early nineteenth century, became an immediate success with professional writers and the curious underground of serious readers in America, at the time. Over the eighty-seven years since Fitzgerald, first released the novel to the public, it has received a staggering critical reception from readers all around the world. The book itself, centralises the ideas of, post war, of hedonism, materialism, alienation and morality, viewed and experienced through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Carraway a young man from Minnesota. In addition to its great success over time, the text has also had a major impact in the field of literature and is viewed as a great. Born September 24th, 1896, Francis
Many novels in this genre tackle personal issues such as dating, relationships, weight issues, life issues and many more. Often told from a point of view that pulls the audience in as if the narrator is confiding in them, Chick Lit novels offer something to identify with, and a great percentage of the audience take comfort from this. I love the odd book to read that’s light and funny and easy going and I am one hundred per cent a sucker for a happy ending; everything that is beheld in a Chick Lit novel, but can we call it literature and is it really any good when compared to Authors such as Stephen King and
Researched Argument Paper In his What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, James Paul Gee strives to prove that video games lead to “good learning of hard and challenging things”(Gee 4), and does so rather successfully. He supports his claims with many examples from his own personal experiences as well as a few research experiments he has done in classrooms. The results of these examples in addition to other professional journals clearly agree with his main assertions. When it comes to credibility of this book, James Paul Gee is very qualified to be speaking about the topics he addresses. Not only has he studied linguistics and philosophy in college, but he has also taught for many years in classrooms.
The Missing Story: How Don Quixote Met Sancho Panza Translated By Lauren Sherman Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s “Don Quixote” meets Robert More’s “Utopia” HONRS 202 SPRING 2012 LAUREN SHERMAN 4/4/2012 Through many translations, edits, and condensed versions of stories, modern textbooks today often leave out a great deal about many classic stories. A group of scholars have recently found part of the original story, Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. This group has undergone an intense process to translate this text to a modern-day understanding and has given its readers a much better understanding of a critical part of the text. In this excerpt from the salvaged story, Don Quixote actually meets his rational sidekick, Sancho Panza in a small town called “Utopia.” This is the true story of how Don Quixote met Sancho Panza… As Don Quixote rode in with the sunrise, his eyes slowly widened as he neared what looked like to be civilization. The sun set and rose so fast Quixote never gave a second thought of visiting a town one of his favorite books referenced.
Both Alexie and Welty’s pallets of reading ranged dramatically. These examples could be considered both as similarities and differences. Welty talks about the books that were there to help them “grow up arguing” around the dining room table: Unabridged Webster, the Columbia Encyclopedia, Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia, etc. She spoke of the Every Child’s Story Book that she read very often. It consisted of a variety of fairy tales such as Robin Hood, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the Yellow Dwarf.
Fiction for children is a means to encourage reading and understanding, as well as an avenue to open and broaden their imagination. There are many genres of fiction and their titles are Modern Fantasy, Historical Fiction and Realistic Fiction, each providing children and young readers with the tools needed to delve into worlds of make-believe or to experience past or future events through characters on a page. There are many reasons why fiction holds the appeal of children and writers of such material are often listed on “Best Sellers Top Lists”, as the written fiction word can create avenues for escape. Modern Fantasy is fiction that can almost be seen as real. This type of fiction has books that create new worlds, experiences, events and characters that cannot be found in the real world, but they still have a hold on reality that almost brings life to them.