![]() ![]() Mattie’s quest for information leads her to the Soul-Smoker, who contains the soul of a dead woman who had looked into this problem before Mattie. Tired of their fate of turning to stone, the gargoyles seek Mattie’s aid in creating a potion to prevent this from happening. ![]() Mattie occasionally needs to be wound up with a key or she will cease to function – a key that her creator refuses to give up to her. Upon finishing her studies, Mattie moved to her own home as an emancipated automaton, to Loharri’s great chagrin. ![]() She boldly asks to be an apprentice to an alchemist and is accepted since it is apparent she is intelligent enough to learn the trade. Capable of both thought and feeling, Mattie craved her independence from her master and became interested in alchemy upon discovering Loharri’s fear of the alchemists, a group in opposition with the scientific mechanics. ![]() Mattie is an automaton created by Loharri, a prominent figure among the mechanics of the city. While it is a thoughtful tale, it can be read quickly and easily without getting bogged down by too many themes and not enough storytelling. This beautifully written, character-driven story focuses on themes of social inequality and humanity within a fantastic steampunk setting combining science and magic. The Alchemy of Stone is the third novel by Ekaterina Sedia, author of The Secret History of Moscow and According to Crow. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Thank heavens, our characters are not dumb and they figured out already what happened to them and who are them and what are they to each other. There’s so many ways the first scenario would not work. It’s just really hard to talk about Never Never without spoiling it. The beginning alone was just the worst case scenario for any main character ever to exist! It was SO GOOD but kind of still not good enough or it could have been better. I’m having a love-hate relationship with this book. It was so intriguing and so mysterious, I don’t know if it’s contemporary or fantasy. I have so many issues with this book and I don’t know how to address them. I have never been so excited to finish a book and to know what happened next and never have I also experienced extreme cliff hanger. Scattered all over the place and I have no idea how to gather them. ![]() She’ll do anything to forget.”ĭude, my mind was blown to pieces. This is about 2 main characters forgetting everything about themselves. This is my second book of Colleen Hoover and first book of Tarryn Fisher. ![]() ![]() Thanks to my friend, Marielle Pangilinan, who practically begged me to read this one, for convincing me. ![]() ![]() ![]() The third chapter deals with the theme of resistance and subversive strategies that the captives adopt against their masters in order to preserve their culture that is threatened by the encounter with the Other. The second chapter is about the effects of captivity on the captives’ identity, culture and religion in both narratives. The first one deals with the representation of the issue of captivity and slavery in Oroonoko and in The Noble Slaves. This work consists of three main chapters. To achieve our aim, we have relied on New Historicist principles and Michel Foucault’s concepts of power and domination that insist on the importance of the interpretation of literary works in relation to their historical context. It aims to argue that captivity has a great effect on the captive’s identity, religion and culture. ![]() A True History (1688) and Penelope Aubin's The Noble Slaves (1772). ![]() ![]() This dissertation intends to study how the issue of captivity exposes identity both religious and cultural to the threat of the Other in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko or, The Royal Slave. ![]() ![]() This has provided a selection of stories that fully stand out from the rest within her genre, as she effectively turns it upon its head. Knowing her audience, she’s a gifted writer with much to say, really delivering on a number of different levels. This has seen her establish a strong profile around the world, creating a body of work that is quite unlike any other. ![]() Becoming a household name for many, she has built a strong following worldwide, bringing in readers regardless of their background. Written with a sense of eroticism, her books are followed by readers throughout the world, with their fun and compelling premises. British author Louise Bay is well known for writing engaging and thrilling romance novels that really arrest the attention of the reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The society’s citizens are given a drug called Good to keep them compliant. “The Era” takes place in a future dystopian society that forbids expressing emotions. He went outside and discovered ashes in the grass his mother had built a fire and cooked the meal outside. He remembers one day in particular when the gas and electric had been turned off, but he came home to find chicken and rice in a pot. In “Things My Mother Said,” an unnamed narrator recalls his difficult and impoverished upbringing with a mother who was tough but loving. Though Emmanuel raised his arms to surrender, the police killed him. However, when it came time to kill them, Emmanuel could not do it. Emmanuel agreed to join, and the group singled out a young couple kissing in their car. Emmanuel ran into an old friend from high school who invited him to join a vigilante group who were killing innocent white people in acts of retributive justice for the murders. In “The Finkelstein 5,” protagonist Emmanuel battles rage and disillusionment after the acquittal of a white man in the murders of five black youths. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.įriday Black is a collection of 12 short stories, many of which are interrelated through common themes, characters, and settings. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame. ![]() |