Orson Scott Card. Who is Orson Scott Card? Orson Scott Card (from now on OSC) is a comtempory writer from the USA. He is a prolific writer of numerous genres but best known for his sci-fi novel "Ender´s game" and the sequel "Speaker for the Dead", on which he won two of the most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo awards, in consecutive years. OSC writing is dominated moral issues and the relationship between characters. A devoted Mormon, he believes that all fiction has a strong moral message. He believes that the message should be positive. Nevertheless, his choice of subject matter and the amount of violence in his books have led raised eyebrows in the Mormon church. Card's characters are usually put in a position of having to make difficult and interesting moral choices. Card believes that it is the character's interaction with other people which makes him interesting. Family is also an important theme in his work. Background. OSC was born in Richland, Washington, 1951 and was named after his grandfather, Orson Rega Card. OSC great-grandfather, Charles Ora Card, was the founder of the Mormon colony in Cardston, Canada. The mormon beliefs is something that is like a red line in the Scott-family, I will come back to this later. OSC was an avid reader at young age, at 8 he red "The Prince and the Pauper", which first attracted him to english history. OSC red plenty of history novels, about the civil war, french and indian wars and even "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. Alongside all of the history and sci-fi readings, he red scripture, the Book of Mormons and the Bible to name some examples.. He was also fascinated by histories of medicine and by books about the exploits of archaeologists. The inherited a love for performing, he loved to sing (and still does) and there were many singalongs in the Scott household. At age 16, the family moved to Orem, Utah (they had moved around a whole lot). The got a scholarship and entered BYU as a archaeology major but found himself spending more and more time in the theatre department so he changed his major. It was as a theatre student he began to school himself as a writer. "It's the best training in the world for a writer, to have a live audience" he says. Close to graduation, Card left for Brazil on a two-year mission for the LDS Church.
The Enders Game written by Orson Scott Card provides understanding of the characters and their relationships with others through indirect characterization and diction. Orson Scott Card uses literacy devices and specific word choice to let the reader draw conclusions about the characters and the relationships between Peter and Ender, the symbolism of the bugger mask/bugger-astronaut game, and the foreshadowing of Peter and Valentines death.
He graduated from the “White Station High School”, where he was the senior class president. Following the graduation he enrolled the Harvard University, however he dropped out of studies after taking only one semester. He returned home and started taking acting classes at the Memphis State University, until one day he was spotted by a film producer and got an invitation to audition for a role. Needless is to say that he got that part, and soon moved to Los Angeles in order to further his career.
Stephen King is one of the most influential authors of today. His award-winning novels and short stories are known world -wide. His many awards and nominations have created a space for him in the literary world. King is a true “Horror King”, for his books, turned movies, have scared millions world- wide. Stephen King has helped bring America to prominence through his many books, essays and short stories.
When he was fifteen years old, his mother died from appendicitis. From fifteen years of age to his college years, he lived in an all-white neighborhood. From 1914-1917, he shifted from many colleges and academic courses of study as well as he changed his cultural identity growing up. He studied physical education, agriculture, and literature at a total of six colleges and universities from Wisconsin to New York. Although he never completed a degree, his educational pursuits laid the foundation for his writing career.
He began reading when most of his friends wouldn’t even think of reading at level. In high school, he was exposed several writings of different author, some of the writers include Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Johnathan Swift (1667-1745) including the great Williams Shakespeare 's(1564-1616), he carefully analyzed their works and was amazed with them. He was fascinated to the point he started adopting the norms of what he has read in them. Before graduating from high, he also had the chance to read some rare works of African cultures by foreigners such was the one written a polish-born English author. Although his books seem to psychologically his way of thinking decided to conform to cohort himself to his local traditions (African). Reading is one of the skills the acquirer earn do, either it was learned a young stage or adult, to read is an aspect, but to write another important which many often consider less necessary important.
Kurt Vonnegut Served as a sensitive cell in the organism of American Society during the 1960's. His work alerted the public about the absurdity of modern warfare and an increasingly mechanized and impersonal society in which humans were essentially worthless and degenerated. The satirical tone and sardonic humor allowed people to read his works and laugh at their own misfortune.
Kurt Vonnegut is an impressive author who combines comic fiction and social satire in his novels. He often writes about the main character Kilgore Trout, who seems to be more like Vonnegut’s alter ego. He has written many books including Player Piano, Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Galapagos, Bluebeard, and Fates Worse Than Death.
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 11, 1922. After attending Cornell University from 1941-43 Vonnegut served in World War II and was captured during the Battle of the Bulge. As a prisoner of war, he survived the fire bombing of Dresden by Allied forces on 13 February, 1945 in an underground meat-storage cellar. When he emerged the next morning, Vonnegut was put to work pulling corpses from the ruins of the desolated city once known as "the Venice of the North." In one night the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden killed more people than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, more than 135,000 in all. Vonnegut's first-hand experiences of this, one of the darkest episodes in human history, would later provide the basis for his most influential work, Slaughterhouse Five (1969), though it would take him more than twenty years to come to terms with his wartime experiences and complete the novel.
Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother and father where both actors, David and Elizabeth Arnold. They had financial difficulties, which soon caused the father to abandon the family. Poe's mother soon had another child; however, she was having physical conditions causing her death on December 8, 1811. Becoming orphans, both Poe and his sister were split up in family friend’s houses. Poe went to live with the Allan's. As Poe grew up he started having problems with his John Allan, his foster father, which caused future problems. Poe's first step to start a career was attending the University of Virginia in 1826. "Allan failed to provide Poe with enough money for necessities such as furniture and books and Poe soon ran up a tremendous gambling debt and began drinking, despite his very low tolerance for alcohol" (Loveday 2). After a time he moved to Boston, "The Great Literature Capital." What was helping Poe start of his career, where the big hopes of one day becoming a writer despite the harsh life he had since he was little. Poe's work has had an impact on literature. Throughout his most famous pieces of literature, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Raven," and "The Cast of Amontillado," we see common factors that influenced these types of works through his plots and characters. "Madness, alienation, and mankind's long love affair with morbidity were the his subjects, and he didn't mind admitting to being more to being more than half in love with easeful death, to mangle a line from his favorite poet, Tennyson," (Allen 2).
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