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A dilemma story (also dilemma tale) is an African story-form intended to provoke discussion. They are used as a form of both entertainment and instruction. [ 1 ] Unlike many other story forms, which culminate in a firm conclusion, dilemma stories are open ended, and meant to spark conversation and debate.
The Book of Three (1964) is a high fantasy novel by American writer Lloyd Alexander, the first of five volumes in The Chronicles of Prydain. The series follows the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper, a youth raised by Dallben the enchanter, as he nears manhood while helping to resist the forces of Arawn Death-Lord .
A rifle on display. Chekhov's gun (or Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary and irrelevant elements should be removed.
In this book we meet six of the ten men, four of whom we already knew. McCracken is the leader of the ten men and the most dangerous. Crawlings is the most careless (and has only one eyebrow). Garrotte is muscular, with a bushy beard. Sharpe is tall and wears glasses. In this book we meet Bludgins, one of the more eccentric of the Ten Men.
According to Niklas Bengtsson, even though India being the exclusive original source of animal fables is no longer taken seriously, the ancient classic Panchatantra, "which new folklore research continues to illuminate, was certainly the first work ever written down for children, and this in itself means that the Indian influence has been ...
The Handmaid's Tale series cast Strahovski and Fiennes as members of the Waterford family. That was a big shift from the novel, which depicted the Waterfords as an older couple. Their age ...
There is an apocryphal tale told that when Stowe met Abraham Lincoln in Washington in November 1862, [23] the president greeted her by saying, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." [24] Mark Twain's work Huckleberry Finn (1884) is another early American social protest novel.
One can see why this might have seemed a flourish best left to the page, though its surreal, unnerving collision of past and present, of base evil and everyday dysfunction, of a factual and ...