Brianna D'Amico- Lit. of Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction

The annotated hobbit reflects the hero's journey. He goes through the process of the call to adventure, by going on the adventure with Gandalf. He refuses at first as most hero's on the journey do. After he decides to go he goes through self doubt and troubles being heroic. He makes selfless decisions and saves the day in the end. The hero's journey doesn't always have to be specific to the pattern as every hero and hero's tory is different like this unique story.

Sunny the main character is takes the role of the protagonist but deals with a great amount of ridicule and sexism from men in this story. She feels out of place in the world and doesn't know where she belongs. She befriends her classmate who helps her to discover her magical talents. Although this relationship is nice, some others are not. The boys bash on her for even trying to join the soccer team even though she is quite good at the sport. Her friend sticks up for her arguing for at least a tryout. She is her supporter. They make her tryout so much harder than any of the boys. She deals with this tension of having to prove herself just for being a woman and for being albino and sensitive tot he sun's rays. Anatov her wise leader archetype position teaches her and others lessons on her magical identity. The evil Black Hat Otokoto the antagonist archetype position has been murdering dozens of Nigerian kids. Sunny's position soon grows to the driving force to stop these

I am very excited to see Generation Dead on the list of books that we could write about this week. I read this book years ago when I entered high school. I found it so compelling because of the relationships that the characters have with each other, both dead and undead. Phoebe, the main character is liked very much by her friends but somehow falls for a "living impaired" (as they call the undead) boy named Tommy. She finds him sweet and gentle while most of the other male characters in the book would like him to be gone.. again. With help from the principle Tommy joins the high school football team. None of the jock boys like this idea one bit. The coach is evenly openly offending tommy and instructing the other boys to take him out be rough with him so that he can no longer play on the team. Adam, a football player, is Phoebe’s neighbor and also has feelings for her. What is remarkable though is that he decides not be hostile towards Tommy and refuses

After reading “A wild sheep chase” by Haruki Murakami, I was left with a sad understanding of his novel. Something that I greatly appreciate about his writing style in this particular piece is the fact that he only gives you enough information about the characters to understand their place in the novel. Many authors chose to exaggerate and detail their writings to keep the reader engaged with a mental picture. This was such an interesting read because instead of mental imagery and personal connection with the characters, we are fully immersed into the scene as if we are there. We understand the narrator motives and desires but we never get close to him or the others in the piece.   We also never know the main characters first name which is extremely bold.   I believe that this is a directly related to the different cultural aspects of the author, Haruki Murakami compared to what we may be use to in English literature and western horror or gothic. We usually get all