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The character's name has been bestowed upon things, especially in the Great Lakes region of the United States. A ship bearing the name Minnehaha wrecked off the western shore of Lake Michigan in 1893, only 38 years after Longfellow's poem was published. [4] A Minnehaha Bay adjoins the small town of Sturgeon Falls in Ontario, Canada.
The heroine of the novella, [15] Liberty 5-3000 is a "born radical", in the words of literary scholar Thomas Horan, and by the time Equality 7-2521 meets her, she already understands the value of individuality. [1] Literary critic Mimi Reisel Gladstein states that Liberty 5-3000 "knows no guilt" and "project[s] a hard, glowing, and fearless ...
The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha , a Dakota woman.
A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1] The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides examples. Some character archetypes, the more universal foundations of fictional characters, are also listed.
The following is an incomplete list of fictional characters featured in the books and stories of P. G. Wodehouse, by series, in alphabetical order by series name. Due to overlap between the various classifications of Wodehouse's work, some characters appear more than once.
Pip, short for Pippin, is the African-American cabin-boy on the whaling-ship Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby-Dick.When Pip falls overboard he is left stranded in the sea, and rescued only by chance and becomes "mad."
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"The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. [5] The Guardian called it "deeply personal", [6] while Lambda Literary said it was a "standout". [3] Kirkus Reviews described it as "so beautiful it hurts;" [7] however, the Los Angeles Review of Books described it as "(u)ndoubtedly sweet but also rather ...