![]() ![]() Economic inequality grows ever wider while wealth and power are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a brazenly corrupt few. ![]() A wave of right-wing and openly fascist governments have been elected to power across the world. ![]() Introduction: With Love, From the End of the WorldĪnd began again in the morning.” – Nayyirah Waheed, SaltĪs I write these words, the world is preparing to enter the year 2019, and it has become something of a truism among my community of queer people of colour that the end of the world is nigh. ![]()
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![]() As a junior guard, she’s excited to prove herself to her company-and that means sacrificing anything that won’t propel her forward.īut then a routine drill goes sideways and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners.Īt first, she’s confident her commanding officer-who also happens to be her mother-will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.Īs a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar’s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. ![]() ![]() Alien meets Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station-only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a 1995 interview with The Sun-Sentinel, original Tin Man Buddy Ebsen revealed that early in filming, he developed a life-threatening allergic reaction to the metallic dust used in the Tin Man makeup. In addition, there was no union to protect the stars and stuntmen if they were harmed.Įighty years later, the Wizard of Oz’ disastrous production remains legendary. In the book The Making of The Wizard of Oz, writer Aljean Harmetz noted that some of the dangerous special effects seen in the movie had never been attempted before. While MGM shelled out big bucks to produce the fantasy film, the Oscar-nominated special effects nearly killed several cast members, according to Time. Before its release on August 25, 1939, the movie was riddled with so many on-set accidents and near-fatal mishaps that some felt the film was cursed. The Wizard of Oz is one of the most beloved films of all time, but the production of the Judy Garland classic did not come easy. ![]() ![]() He puts the reader into the shoes of the narrator through the language he uses. Haddon uses narrative in the first person is by itself a distinct technique that woos many readers (Mark). ![]() He captures the reader from the beginning, makes him feel like he is playing part in the narrative, and finally leaves him delighted and encouraged to reread the narrative. Mark Haddon can be termed as a well-gifted narrative author, with highly creative ways to capture readers into his work. It will also see the ways in which these techniques remain outstanding. This essay seeks to find out and explain the distinctive techniques used in the Haddon’s novel, which draw many readers into its world. On top of the normal and expected techniques by most readers, he uses extraordinary ones capturing many readers in a distinctive way. However, mark Haddon, in his novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- time”, uses distinctive techniques to make his work interesting and outstanding. ![]() Others have also used distinctively interesting characters at the center of their literature. With this, novel authors have used variety of writing skills varying from dramatic openings to use of fictional techniques to convey their ideas. In literature, many authors have well used writing techniques that capture the reader and create a desire within to read their work. ![]() ![]() The Landers are determined to destroy her, but the Freedom’s Ark, a fractious and riotous band of rebels, may prove to be her downfall. While other competitors have spent their lives training, Koral must rely on pure grit and her knowledge of maristags to stand a chance of surviving and saving her family. Driven by desperation and rage, Koral risks it all to sneak into the Glory Race. ![]() Forced to serve Landers but shunned by Renters as sellouts, her family’s crippling debt worsens when they fail to capture a maristag and can’t afford the medicine for Koral’s ailing younger sister. As a Hunter, a member of a Renter subcaste, she captures and trains maristags-deadly, temperamental sea monsters-for Landers participating in the Glory Race, a lethal chariot competition in which only one Champion is crowned. ![]() In Sollonia, a world where the line between upper-caste Landers and lower-caste Renters is strictly defined, Koral’s family is condemned to fall in between. A young woman defies the caste system by entering a competition reserved for the elite. ![]() |