Despite the story's lack of an easily marketable concept, Cannava selected American Beauty because he felt it was the one Ball had the most passion for.

Ball felt that Mendes liked to look under the story's surface, a talent he felt would be a good fit with the themes of American Beauty.

" Rip Van Winkle " is a short story by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist.

While the plan is successful, Harold, Howie, and even Chester fall asleep along with Dawg, and awaken shortly before dawn due to the rain and constant nightmares, presumably brought on by Chester's story, which is left open to interpretation by the end of the book as to whether or not Chester made the whole thing up or if it was based on actual ' fact ' within the canon of the series, though Chester's belief that the house is an ' American house of Dr. E. A. D ' which lead to the story, is proven to be mistaken by story's end.

While the first three may be ( and usually were ) taken as Doctor Who by another name, the departure here of the Miss Brown character ( for which Nicola Bryant had not used her Peri Brown American accent ) and the Stranger himself being likewise " returned to his proper time and place " at the story's conclusion allowed for a move to divorce the series from any such notions.

Because of the story's occasional macabre and potentially frightening content, it has become a regular target of the censors and is # 56 on the American Library Association's top 100 list of most frequently challenged books.

Benet uses Girty's popular image for the story's dramatic purposes ; all members of the jury are called by Satan and are supposed to be the worst villains in American history.

While most other modern critics have little positive to say about the story's writing, Ralph 124C 41 + is still considered an " essential text for all studies of science fiction " and " arguably the first major work of American science fiction ".

The story's events are set almost entirely in Burden Valley, a small and remote valley in the American Midwest.

Wertham, author of the influential study Seduction of the Innocent, cited a particular panel of the story's dope-dealing narrator about to be stabbed in the eye with a hypodermic needle as an example of the " injury-to-the-eye " motif.

Professor Bill Reynolds: The story's narrator, who is writing a thesis on fame.

This being slowly infiltrates the life of the story's narrator, first via a manuscript describing its cult.

The story's first-person narrator, a private investigator, investigates the death of his ex-wife, found at the bottom of her swimming pool with an iron stake driven through her, and the disappearance of her daughter, last seen falling in with a crowd of vampire cultists.

The most famous exposition of the theory is in Oscar Wilde's short story " The Portrait of Mr. W. H .," in which Wilde, or rather the story's narrator, describes the puns on " will " and " hues " in the sonnets, ( notably Sonnet 20 among others ), and argues that they were written to a seductive young actor named Willie Hughes who played female roles in Shakespeare's plays.

He then lays out a completely reasoned case that the murderer is in fact Dr. Sheppard, who has not only been Poirot's assistant, but the story's narrator.

* Dr. James Sheppard – the doctor, Poirot's assistant ( and the story's narrator )

The story's narrator accepts a case to investigate the disappearance of a woman from a psychiatric Institute, which leads him to the Ensemble.

Miles Coverdale: The story's protagonist and narrator, Coverdale is a simple observer of the activities of the Blithedale farm.

Maximillian " Max " Cohen ( Sean Gullette ), the story's protagonist and unreliable narrator, is a number theorist who believes that everything in nature can be understood through numbers.

The novelette An Account Of A Meeting With Denizens Of Another World 1871, is an entertaining account of a UFO encounter, as experienced by a Victorian, but is notable chiefly for the framing story, in which Langford claimed to have found the manuscript in an old desk ( the story's narrator, William Robert Loosley, is a genuine ancestor of Langford's wife ).

Booth also spent several chapters — which include numerous references to and citations from widely recognized works of fiction — describing the various effects that implied authors achieve along the various lines of interest that he identifies, and the pitfalls they fall into, depending upon whether or not the implied author provides commentary, and upon the degree to which a story's narrator is reliable or unreliable, personal or impersonal.

Shooting an Elephant is a possibly autobiographical account by George Orwell in which he describes how an elephant in Burma had an attack of musth and went on to kill an Indian, leading the story's narrator to shoot it.

The story's narrator is a spirit who has been watching over humans for the last million years.

However, the book seems to hint that this Croc enjoys feeding on human flesh, with the story's narrator remarking that Croc " has a certain ... eccentric way with evidence ".

He then becomes the story's disembodied narrator, following around the young boy Robin.

The story's protagonist and narrator is Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a college student living in Tokyo.

The adaptation retains many of the main characters but places Bette as the story's narrator.

The icicles and meter are references to the story's beginning where the narrator, who prides himself on his careful attention to detail, is transfixed by the minute effects of dripping icicles and umbra cast by a parking meter.

The story's narrator and a handful of strangers find themselves trapped together in a freeway truck stop diner after semi-trailers and other electronic devices are suddenly brought to independent life by an unknown force and proceed to gruesomely kill every human in sight.

One of the six students is the story's narrator, Richard Papen, who reflects, years later, on the situation that led to a murder within the group, the murder being confessed at the outset of the novel but the events otherwise revealed sequentially.

The story's narrator, an unnamed character based loosely on Klein himself, goes in search of his long-lost uncle, Melech Davidson, a Holocaust survivor who drifts to Rome and then Casablanca before immigrating to Israel.

Boris Karloff serves as both the story's narrator and the voice of the Grinch.

* Macunaíma's parrot: The last main character to appear, but the very first to be heard as he's also the story's narrator.

By the story's end the Emperor personality is dominant, and the Daleks agree to follow him and leave Earth.

" While most other modern critics have little positive to say about the story's writing, Ralph 124C 41 + is still considered an " essential text for all studies of science fiction.

In this view, a story's scientific " hardness " is less a matter of the absolute accuracy of the science content than of the rigor and consistency with which the various ideas and possibilities are worked out.

* In the PS3 RPG game, Tales of Graces, Lambda is the name of the main story's antagonist.

The versatility of structuralism is such that a literary critic could make the same claim about a story of two friendly families (" Boy's Family + Girl's Family ") that arrange a marriage between their children despite the fact that the children hate each other (" Boy-Girl ") and then the children commit suicide to escape the arranged marriage ; the justification is that the second story's structure is an ' inversion ' of the first story's structure: the relationship between the values of love and the two pairs of parties involved have been reversed.

The demonic monkey in " Green Tea " could be a delusion of the story's protagonist, who is the only person to see it ; in " The Familiar ", Captain Barton's death seems to be supernatural, but is not actually witnessed, and the ghostly owl may be a real bird.

The arrow remains in the door throughout the serial and through several dematerialisations before being removed at the story's conclusion ; this is repeated in " The Shakespeare Code " ( 2007 ), and the arrow is removed in the following episode.

As with all folklore and mythology, the designation suggests nothing about the story's veracity, but merely that it is in circulation, exhibits variation over time, and carries some significance that motivates the community in preserving and propagating it.

The chaos of the prelude to the attack, as city residents are forcibly evacuated to the country, leads to the story's centre in Rochester, which is struck by an off-target missile aimed at Gatwick Airport.

Amelia begins as a warm-hearted and friendly girl, though sentimental and naive, but by story's end she is portrayed as vacuous and shallow.

Other times, a historical event is used to complement a story's narrative, occurring in the background while characters deal with situations ( personal or otherwise ) wholly unrelated to that historical event.

The academic and author Jody W. Pennington argues that Lester's journey is the story's center.

The story's original version in Sanskrit is known as Valmiki Ramayana, dating to approximately the 5th to 4th century B. C.

He comes to life most fully when he lapses into French or is otherwise momentarily freed from the story's constraints.

In Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1969, a young Tom Marvolo Riddle ( introduced as " Tom ", whose middle name is a " marvel " and last name is a " conundrum ") appears, and becomes the new avatar of Oliver Haddo at the story's conclusion.

However, the story's central character is actually Michael.

In the story's first half, Meursault is an unperceptive man, existing only via sensory experience ( the funeral procession, swimming in the sea, sleeping with his girlfriend ).