Science FictionScience fiction is among the most versatile forms of writing. It can be a romance, a comedy, a war story, a drama, a mystery and as the recent film The Wild, Wild West proves, even a western. Take any literary classic add in a crazed robot bent on world destruction, and a space s...

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451. The main character Guy Montag a dedicated fireman for many years. He liked his job, life and never questioned his bosses' orders; until a seventeen year old girl named Clarisse McClellan suddenly came into his life and changed it ...

Title: Shade's Children Author: Garth Nix This book seems to be one of Garth Nix's better works because he expands the mind more then he did in the last novel that I read by him, (Pullman's journey). Pullman's Journey took place in the mid 1700's and was about a poor m...

Comical in style and language, the message that Catch-22 introduces to its reader is one of a grim world's decay. Heller's fictional story portrays absurd characters and situations, but the underlying theme of human decadence is clearly visible, especially in the last portion of the book. Heller's a...

What is reality? The novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, written by Ken Kesey, explores living in a mental institution through the mind of a patient. As the reader begins the novel, they would naturally think that a patient found in a mental hospital would be insane. As Kesey introduces you to ...

The novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and The Matrix directed by the Wachowski brothers, are very similar with respects to their characters, and settings, and yet so different at the same time. A futuristic society, based on the three principles of the state COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, and STABILITY...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, a troubled society has emerged from a lack of literature caused by the governments control over censorship. The reader becomes aware of this by many literary techniques including symbolism and the portrayal of the sett...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Interested in getting direct access to the psychedelic drugs, Kesey took a job as a psychiatric aide at the same VA hospital. Ingesting various substances and working all night at the mental institution became the inspiration for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Ac...

The Theme of Social Neglect in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and AI by Steven Spielberg Works of art, especially those of literature, had been portrayedeffectively through the print and audio-visual media. Through writing,ideas are expressed vivi...

A Date with KosinskiBeing James Bond is every man's dream. The beautiful women, fancy cars, dangerous journeys, and beautiful women. Many men would love to be in his place where all the danger and excitement take place. We don't have that capability to become an international spy, but in the nove...