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A minor character flaw is an imperfection which serves to distinguish the character in the mind of the reader / viewer / player / listener, making them memorable and individual, but otherwise does not affect the story in any way.
Poetic justice describes an obligation of the dramatic poet, along with philosophers and priests, to see that their work promotes moral behavior. [10] 18th-century French dramatic style honored that obligation with the use of hamartia as a vice to be punished [10] [11] Phèdre, Racine's adaptation of Euripides' Hippolytus, is an example of French Neoclassical use of hamartia as a means of ...
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit".
"Sometimes I put the work ahead of [my family], and that is a tragic mistake which won’t happen again." This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times . Show comments
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
Whether you are or always have been a bookworm or stopped reading books at 16 years old, you should know all these big names in this literature trivia. From Dickens to Hemingway, this trivia has ...
Sam Sacks of The Wall Street Journal described Pancake's death as "A Voice Stilled Too Soon," and called his suicide a "tragic mistake," insisting that it was the result of a particularly bad night rather than an inevitable circumstance. Sacks concluded this argument by stating that Pancake's stories, which carry on his legacy, are ...
Hoover has written four book series. You can read one or all of the series, in any sequence. The Slammed Trilogy. The Hopeless Saga. The Maybe Trilogy I. It Ends (and Starts) With Us. According to ...