Clive Barker Essays

In the book The Thief of Always by Clive Barker, a young boy by the name of Harvey Swick is swallowed by the great beast February, but is “saved” by Mr. Hood’s Holiday House. A place of magic, wonder, and mystery. Harvey discovers new friends, and together they realize that something is terribly wrong. In this essay, the purposes of Mrs. Griffin’s three cats; Clue Cat, Blue Cat, and Stew Cat, are uncovered. Because of these unique and wonderful animals the reader discovers secrets and solves long

Alicia Cook was born on January 25, 1981 in Harlem, New York, and was raised by her mother. She enrolled in piano lessons when she was 7 years old. Four years later Alicia started writing her own songs. Her music was a combination of contemporary and R&B. She got an education at a Professional Performance Arts School, Columbia University. This helped her develop her vocal skills. She then graduated at the age of 16 and was valedictorian of her class. She began working with Columbia records and ever

It seems strange that all the regular novels featuring Artemis Fowl disguise his actual looks from us, and yet here is the character's creator collaborating on the graphic novel of the first book in the series. With the great intelligence of Fowl at large it is understandable that no-one knows what he looks like, with his technological nous and Butler's bulk to protect him from hidden CCTV and whatnot. And now we do know what he looks like, what is the result? Well, a bit of an unattractive sight

ON CONTEMPORARY DIRECTORS AND THEIR INFLUENCE Modern directors take a leaf out of the books of early directors all the time; be it in a form of a shot, character traits, or just generic similarities, it has all been done. These contemporary directors tread the thin line between plagiarism and influence with great competence, and produce work which is bound to go down in the vaults, like the ones they took inspiration from. Owing to his unconventional shooting methods, Hitchcock has a whole

Hybridity: Hybridity usually defined as “the creation of new trans-cultural forms within the contact zone produced by colonisation” (Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin, 2003). It takes many forms comprising cultural, political and linguistic. Ben Okri records a modification and addresses hybrid cultural models in The Famished Road. He connects the hybridity with structure that shapes the narrative. He states that “One of the strongest impulses which made me write The Famished Road is that I got tired

Alicia Keys is a singer-songwriter, actress, and producer, born Alicia Augello Cook in New York, 1981. Born an only child, Alicia Keys parents Divorced when she was two years old, after which she was brought up by her mother, Teresa Augello in a one-bedroomed apartment in "Hell’s Kitchen" neighborhood in Manhattan. At the time this was no place to raise a child, it was a boiling pot for the negative, a place where prostitution, drugs and gang violence strived. Despite all the struggles her mom was

‘British literature through the first half of the nineteenth century was written in the shadow of the French Revolution, with its promise of liberation and its “Reign of Terror.” The Romantic poets championed the rebel - even if it happened to be Satan - in several their works’ (topics). Charlotte Brontë was a writer her entire life and published her first novel, Jane Eyre, in 1847. Even though there was controversial criticism of society's treatment of impoverished women, the book was a success

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destroys that belief. Would you work to hide what was found in order to preserve your way of being or fight to let the world know of the important discovery? Nina Kirov and Kurt Austin decide to do the latter and choose to inform the world in Serpent by Clive Cussler. After a series of organized massacres and multiple other murders, Nina and Kurt make it their mission to bring the organization responsible to justice. They uncover many artifacts and secrets but the three most important objects are the wreck

Laws have maintained the order and stability of society from old days of ancient civilization to today’s contemporary society. As law-abiding citizens, we allow the laws to be enforced through punishments and consequences; however, when these laws threaten ethical values and justice, they are challenged in a non-violent method known as “civil disobedience.” In Sophocles’ Antigone, Antigone challenged the political authority of Creon in a defiant act that related the struggles between her duty as

In The Tragedy of Hamlet , by William Shakespeare, some of the most significant events are mental or psychological events that make the audience feel and have an emotional connection with the characters. Moreover, these significant events are categorized as new awakenings, discoveries, and changes in consciousness that set off a mental or psychological effect to the readers. The author, Shakespeare, gives these internal events to characters such as Ophelia, Gertrude, and Hamlet throughout the play

Alice Walker is one of the best known of African-American writers. In 1982, Walker published her most famous novel, The Color Purple. The novel is written in an epistolary form. Ita has also been made into a movie by Steven Spielberg and into a musical. The novel primarily focuses on the problems that the African-American women faced in the 20th century in the south of the United States depicted on the example of Celie, who came through a number of events and finally managed to self-actualize herself

The Three Cats Clive Barker’s Thief of Always is about a young boy named Harvey who is stuck in a fake but amazing world where every dream comes true. Mrs Griffin is a kind old woman living at the house. She owns three cats, Clue Cat, Blue cat, and Stew cat. The three cats have a very important hidden meaning which is revealed later in the story. The cats travel around the house, there goings unanswered and questioned. Each cat finds Harvey in a unique way. Stew cat, blue cat, and clue cat each lead

Clive Barker wrote a book called the The Thief of Always. In this book a kid named Harvey adventures into the mysterious Holiday House. In this novel Barker uses food in an unexpected way to advance the plot of his story. Clive Barker doesn’t only use food as a thing to fill a child’s stomach,but as a tool to keep him/her in the house and even a weapon. Food is used as a tool to keep the kids attracted to the holiday house. Food makes the house seem like the perfect place to stay. About 2 minutes

Today, horror stories continue to be the most popular genre in books and on the big screen. Many works of literature and movies today are inspired by gothic writers like Edgar Allan Poe, his themes, use of horror, style in which he wrote developed from his life and influenced horror writers present day. The life of Edgar Allan Poe was very interesting and mysterious. Poe was born on January 19th, 1849 In Boston Massachusetts to actors Eliza Poe and David Poe Jr. When he was very young his father

In the Thief of Always, by Clive Barker. A boy named Harvey is taken to the Holiday House. He discovers that there is a great evil to the Holiday House. There is a man who sucks children’s souls. So harvey tries to defeat this man, first he flees, then he remembers a friend, and then he attempts and succeeds in defeating hood. Barker implies that evil is equal to nothing. He implies that through characters, objects, and settings.All of the evil characters that are defeated turn to nothing. The foods

The Thief of Always The story, The Thief of Always, by Clive Barker is a fantasy that is a thrilling and fun book. Lulu and Wendell, who are friends of Harvey and parents of Harvey are minor characters, but play a major role in advancing the plot. These minor characters helped tell this story. They do this by giving hints, making discoveries and helping Harvey, the main character, defeat Mr. Hood. Wendell advances the plot by giving hints that the Holiday House isn’t perfect. First Wendell notices

In Clive Barker’s The Thief of Always, Hood, the antagonist, creates 4 servants to help him on his path to evil. 3 of those characters are very similar to Hood and each other and those are the points that will be highlighted in this essay. Hood put aspects of himself in Jive, Carna, Marr, and Rictus but that what he put into the first three are the most important. Carna and Hood seem very similar in the way that they are both very harsh. Carna is extremely harsh and seems very violent. When Harvey

At its finest, horror is seductive. Some of the best works of horror are those which test the limitations of degrees of wrongness and still manage to keep audiences enticed. Like Clive Barker’s “In the Hills, the Cities”, a story following a gay couple, Mick and Judd, celebrating their honeymoon in Yugoslavia during a decade of celebration in the nearby cities of Popolac and Podujevo. Only this celebration involves a ritual where the thirty thousand citizens of each city are bound together to create

HELLRAISER, released in 1987. Directed and written by Clive Barker. Casts included were Andrew Robinson, Ashley Laurence and Clare Higgins. This is a story of man who had brought a box abroad. When he died, his wife and brother had transferred into a new house bringing the said box with them. The box was used