![]() In this way, the experience of reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories can become a highly personal experience. Additionally, an individual reader's interpretation and experience of the novel is extremely dependent on his or her familiarity with the referenced works. ![]() Further, by making these references to outside fictional works, the novel insists that made-up, fictional stories in general can be meaningful, as their inclusion creates layer upon layer of meaning. In this way, the novel is able to essentially borrow meaning from these stories, rather than create meaning solely out of thin air. By including so many references to outside works, the novel then gets to pull meaning, morals, and ideas from those outside works. The outside references are numerous and range from One Thousand And One Nights to Beatles' songs. ![]() Haroun's story relies very much on the stories of others in order to add meaning and create different meanings. ![]() This process and style brings into question the purpose of the novel itself as it simultaneously explores the purpose of the stories within its own pages, as well as its place in the world. As fiction, the novel tells a story that, by default, isn't necessarily true, and the obviously fantastical and magical elements emphasize this almost to absurdity. The first question the novel asks is, "what is the use of stories that aren't even true?" The novel then sets out to answer this question, as well as complicate the answers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Big Read Library is a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) program designed to restore reading to the center of American culture, and provides competitive grants to support innovative reading programs in a very large number of selected communities. True Grit is a National Endowment for the Arts 2013 Big Read Library Selection ![]() True Grit is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the 2010 version starring Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers. Portis is the author of five novels, including the number one New York Times bestseller True Grit, as well as The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, Gringos, and Norwood. He later moved to New York, working for the New York Herald-Tribune as London bureau chief until 1964, when he retired from journalism and moved back south to be a full-time novelist. ![]() During the Korean War, Portis served in the Marine Corps where he attained the rank of sergeant. After he graduated, Portis worked for various newspapers including two years at the Arkansas Gazette. Charles Portis (1933–present) Charles Portis began his writing career in college, working for the University of Arkansas student newspaper as well as the Northwest Arkansas Times. ![]() ![]() ![]() That conversation above was with the very insightful Rob West, Artistic Director at the time, who said, “I believe in you” and lit a spark for me to put pen to paper for something I’d always wanted to do. My adaptation was one of the first that wasn’t a one-woman show but a full-blown play with characters. In March of 2003, we opened The Yellow Wallpaper an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novella written and directed by me, at Theatre Schmeater in Seattle, WA - a theater that I both acted and directed in for what some call the heyday of Seattle Fringe Theatre in the early 2000’s. ![]() “Yes, pick one, you have eight months, and you can direct it.” “Well, why don’t you and I’ll put it in the season.” “I’ve always wanted to write adaptations of the Aristophanes play Lysistrata and a short feminist novella that I read in college.” “Well, what plays have you always wanted to do?” Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relations Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution “to free an entire half of humanity from an artificial position to release vast natural forces from a strained and clumsy combination, and set them free to work smoothly and easily as they were intended to work to introduce conditions that will change humanity from within, making for better motherhood and fatherhood, better babyhood and childhood, better food, better homes, better society, this is to work for human improvement along natural lines.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Maggie cannot agree to meet him as it would thwart her purpose of putting other people's happiness in front of her own and her desire to give up her discontent with her narrow life. He first suggests that it is their duty to repair the enmity between their families, that their meeting would affect no one, and finally that meetings with her would provide the only happiness of his days. Philip protests, asking Maggie to meet him in the woods now and then. Maggie is frank-she is happy to see him and thanks him for the kindness shown to her and her brother in their youth and explains how she is sad that they cannot restart their friendship. Maggie's chosen life of deprivation has suited her-she looks stately and older now, though there still remains "a sense of opposing elements, of which a fierce collision is imminent." Philip Wakem emerges from the woods and admits to Maggie that he has followed her there, wanting to see her again. Several days later, Maggie goes out for her usual walk in the rocky area near her house, called the Red Deeps. Philip tips his cap to her, and Maggie runs upstairs, unwilling to spoil a reunion with Philip by the presence of their fathers. ![]() Wakem approach and notices that Philip is with him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fascinated by the occult, Potocki studied ancient cultures, rituals and secret societies. During his extensive voyages he actively documented prevailing customs, ongoing wars, revolutions and national awakenings, which made him a pioneer of travel literature. As a soldier, he fought in Austrian ranks in the War of the Bavarian Succession, and in 1789 was appointed a military engineer in the Polish army. He frequently visited the salons of Paris and toured Europe before temporarily returning to Poland in 1778. He is known chiefly for his picaresque novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.īorn into affluent Polish nobility, Potocki lived abroad from an early age and was primarily educated in Switzerland. ![]() Count Jan Potocki ( Polish pronunciation: 8 March 1761 – 23 December 1815) was a Polish nobleman, ethnologist, linguist, traveller and author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a celebrated figure in Poland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perfect Chemistry is a romantic novel that is similar to West Side Story, a novel of misunderstandings and miscommunications that work to keep two lovers apart until finally love propels them past all obstacles.īrittany Ellis has worked hard to appear perfect in order to make her mother happy. When Alex and Brittany are forced to become partners in their chemistry class, they find themselves on a path that will lead both to discover that looks are not all they appear to be. Alex Fuentes is a poor Mexican boy from the wrong side of town who became a member of the local gang to protect his mother and two little brothers. She appears to be a girl who seems to have it all. In this novel, Brittany Ellis is the daughter of wealthy parents from the right side of town. Perfect Chemistry is a novel by bestselling, young adult author Simone Elkeles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |a Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime. |a Peter Nimble and his fantastic eyes : |b a story / |c by Jonathan Auxier. ![]() ![]() health and comfort, Steele contends that women’s experiences of corsetry varied considerably and cannot be fully understood within these narrow frames. Whereas most historians have framed the history of the corset in terms of oppression vs. ![]() ![]() Valerie Steele, one of the world’s most respected fashion historians, explores the cultural history of the corset, demolishing myths about this notorious garment and revealing new information and perspectives on its changing significance over the centuries. Why did women continue to don steel and whalebone corsets for four hundred years? And why did they finally stop? This lavishly illustrated book offers fascinating and often surprising answers to these questions. Although regarded as an essential element of fashionable dress from the Renaissance into the twentieth century, the corset was also frequently condemned as an instrument of torture and the cause of ill health. The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the history of fashion. Named one of the 2001 Best of the Year by the Globe & Mail of Toronto Winner of the 2002 Millia Davenport Publication Award, sponsored by the Costume Society of America Selected for inclusion in the 2002 "Books to Remember" list by the New York Public Library ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stefanie pitched Diana Lopez as the "Latina Judy Blume"-not a bad comparison! Here's the summary of Confetti Girl:Īpolonia "Lina" Flores is a sock enthusiast, a volleyball player, a science lover, and a girl who's just looking for answers. I had given her a copy of The Year of the Dog as an example of the latter, and she told me she had the perfect novel to send me. I had mentioned that I was looking for more multicultural projects, both projects that had very much to do with cultural identity, and other projects that featured main characters of color, but of which their ethnicity was not the main focus in terms of the story and plot. Beyond the Book: Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez Confetti Girl was submitted to me by agent Stefanie von Borstel of Full Circle Literary after we had met at a conference. ![]() ![]() ![]() This Book was ranked at 16 by Google Books for keyword Children's Books Biographies popular. Full Book Name:Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya Author Name:Donna Jo Napoli Book Genre:Africa, Biography, Childrens, Cultural, Environment, Nonfiction, Picture Books Series Detail: ISBN 9781416935056 ASIN 1416935053 Edition Language:English Date of Publication:JanuPDF File Name:MamaMiti-DonnaJoNapoli. Wangari Muta Maathai has changed Kenya tree by tree-and with each page turned, children will realize their own ability to positively impact the future. Today more than 30 million trees have been planted throughout Mama Miti’s native Kenya, and in 2004 she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. This picture book tells the true story of Wangari Muta Maathai who encouraged Kenyan women to plant trees to improve their lives and their country. ![]() ![]() Through artful prose and beautiful illustrations, Donna Jo Napoli and Kadir Nelson tell the true story of Wangari Muta Maathai, known as “Mama Miti,” who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization that has empowered many people to mobilize and combat deforestation, soil erosion, and environmental degradation. ![]() Mama Miti PDF By:Donna Jo Napoli Published on by Simon and Schuster ![]() |