Mary Shelley

It seemed to be another depressing day in the insane asylum of Shinjuku, Tokyo. It was a very dull day; it was the same routine over and over again. Two infamous names of Ikebukuro, their minds wasting away. It was simple, Izaya Orihara, a corrupted information broker who was mentally unstable at that. He was sent to an asylum to spend the rest of his years recuperating. All he did in his sorry excuse of a room was talk to himself and hope that the voices in his head would stop screaming. He…

I Am Legend is a science fiction horror story but unlike most horror stories, "I Am Legend" is not a hero versus villain scenario. I am legend is set in a futuristic version of Los Angeles. Robert Neville, the last surviving human fights against a race of terrifying vampires. However what makes the book different to most is it doesn't glorify Neville's hatred towards the vampires, instead the author uses Neville's interaction with the vampires to study the concept of "otherness" - the way one…

One of the main differences between the plot of A Wizard of Earthsea and Tales From Earthsea is that A Wizard of Earthsea uses self vs. self to represent good and evil, although Tales From Earthsea uses man vs. man. One example from the novel that shows a self vs. self action is, “If you go ahead, if you keep running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, it chooses the way you go. You must choose. You must seek what seeks you. You must hunt the hunter.” (178) In this quotation,…

The author successfully presents scary/creepy moments in his writings by using the characters and setting of the story to contribute to it. The conflict of the story could also contribute to making his writing scary/creepy. One reason that I think he uses the characters in the story to make the story creepy/scary is that in The Landlady he makes the LandLady creepy. The text states, “ I stuff all my animals myself once they die so I do not feel alone and so that I have someone to talk to when…

Warren Bennis once said, “Leadership is the capacity to translate visions into reality”. This mean to make your dreams into reality the key component is leadership. A great book that represents this is maximum ride. This book is about a 14 year old girl named max. Ever since jeb left her and her family. Well they weren't family genetically but they acted as a family because they had no family. At the start of the book max and the others had been attacked by eraser. Erasers are human werewolf…

Aurus and his brother, Argent, lived quite lavishly in an unspecified location in California. They live far away from the general population because they had no need to live closer. They were immortal gods who had too much to do on their own to worry about mortals. Aurus was a tall, slender looking man who always donned stark white lab coat with the occasional chemical stain. With his lab coat, he wore a pair of goggles up on top of his head in case of an explosion. Argent always had a casual…

Journey to an island, shrouded in mystery and dark magic... THE MATEGUAS ISLAND SERIES...multi-award-winning American Gothic Fiction! Book I - MATEGUAS ISLAND, A NOVEL OF TERROR AND SUSPENSE Book II - RETURN TO MATEGUAS ISLAND, A TALE OF SUPERNATURAL SUSPENSE Book III - GHOSTS OF MATEGUAS, A MATEGUAS ISLAND NOVEL What could be more idyllic than to live on an island off the coast of Maine? That's what Bill Andersen thought when he moved his family to Mateguas. But Mateguas is more than just…

Everyone has a choice. What matters, is if we make the right one. In the film Harry Potter And The Order of The Phoenix based on J.K. Rowling’s book, Sirius Black says, “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we act on. That’s who we really are.” It’s clear that Dr. Henry Jekyll from the play, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” And Courtney Davidson who wrote the article “Confessions of a Former Hazer.” Both agree with Sirius Black’s quote. Dr.…

Gilgamesh, the king of the city-state of Uruk, son of Lugalbanda, who was earlier king of Uruk. Gilgamesh was born two-third divine and one-third human. Since he was king we would think he would be considered a virtuous character, but throughout the story, he shows he’s not. For example, Gilgamesh insults the goddess, Ishtar when she asks him to marry him. Gilgamesh by insulting Ishtar shows that even though he is considered very handsome and strong, he still wants to keep his pride with his…

Martin’s zombies are forced to toil on after ‘death’ for their overseers or controllers. They are not truly dead, but rather are created through medical and technological means rather than magical means as the zombies of Haitian origin. These poor souls have their brains removed and replaced by a synthetic substitute resulting in a shell with no soul to drive it. That function is fulfilled by their fully living human controllers (Martin, 2008). In this regard, the story is more of a tale of…