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Ursula K. Le
Guin’s utopian parable: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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Detective fiction: is a subgenre of crime
fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either
professional or amateur—investigates a crime,
often murder,
such as one thousand and one nights, Sherlock
Holmes.
Amateur
Abnormal
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Sherlock Holmes is a
fictional character created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a graduate of the University
of Edinburgh Medical School. A London-based "consulting detective"
whose abilities border on the fantastic, Holmes is known for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to
adopt almost any disguise and his use of forensic
science to solve difficult cases.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his
fictional stories about the detective Sherlock
Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
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physician
musician
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Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic,
considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of
the short story, and is generally considered
the inventor of the detective
fiction genre.
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The immortals
mor-death
morgue
mortician
mortify
Homicide: is the illegal killing of a person.
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Adventure Fiction is a genre of fiction in which an adventure, an exciting undertaking
involving risk and physical danger, forms the main storyline.
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and
other supernatural phenomena
as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the
genre take place in imaginary worlds where
magic and magical
creatures are common.
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Herbert
George Wells —known as H. G. Wells—was
a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history,
politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. He is
now best remembered for his science fiction novels,
and Wells is called a father of science fiction. His most notable science fiction works
include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), and The
Invisible Man (1897).
didactic: Something that is didactic is intended to teach people something, especially a
moral lesson.
cremated: When someone is cremated, his or her dead body is
burned, usually as part of a funeral service.
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A utopia
is a community or society possessing highly desirable or near
perfect qualities. The
term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal
society, and imagined societies portrayed in fiction. It has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia.
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A dystopia is
an imaginary community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is
literally translated as "not-good place", an
antonym of utopia.
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A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse,
which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants,
inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have
human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.
parable
paragraph
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Nowhere is somewhere.
Neverland Valley Ranch is a developed property in Santa
Barbara County, California, located at 5225 Figueroa Mountain Road, Los Olivos, California 93441, most
famous for being the home of American entertainer Michael Jackson from 1988 to 2005.
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Juvenile: A juvenile is a child or young
person who is not yet old enough to be regarded as an adult.
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Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English
novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction,
and polemical journalism. He is perhaps best known
for his dystopian novel Nineteen
Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal
Farm (1945).
Brave new world
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Movie: The island
The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller film directed by Michael
Bay, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. It was released on
July 22, 2005, in the United States and was nominated for three awards,
including the Teen Choice Award.
Movie: Demolition man
A police officer is brought out of
suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis that is
loose in a non-violent future society.
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The Handmaid's Tale (1985) is a dystopian novel, a work of speculative, by Canadian
author Margaret Atwood.
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"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a 1973 plotless, short, and descriptive of philosophical fiction, popularly
classified as a short story, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Its narrator seems deliberately uncertain or indecisive, sparsely and
abstractly describing a few nameless characters in a
vividly imagistic description of
a summer festival in Omelas, a utopian city whose prosperity and success
depend on the perpetual misery of a single child, kept locked beneath it in
squalor and torture.
scapegoat : If you say that someone is made a scapegoat for something bad that
has happened, you mean that people blame them and may punish them for it
although it may not be their fault.
procession: A procession is a group of people who are walking, riding, or
driving in a line as part of a public event.
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