buying salmon and salad and green grapes and coffee beans but mostly getting out to remember these days are precious, even at their most ordinary, even with money worries and the housework not done (for months), the novel unfinished; it’s...
One summer when Kataryn was just eight years old, she so angered Miss Abby with some trivial infraction that her aunt threw her first belongings in a bag, took her to the train station, and put her aboard a train to Montreal, where the girl’s long-missing father was known to have so...
A really funny time travel story, as historians attempt to prevent the unraveling of the universe after a seemingly impossible accident. Romance, confusion, rare goldfish, a remarkably ugly Macguffin, and a lot of laughs, to say nothing of the dog. ...
. Often, key elements that would help the reader solve or reveal aspects of the plot are deliberately hidden or withheld in order to confuse; or left in full view to distract and mislead by using literary devices like aRed Herringor the device popularised by Alfred Hitchcock, theMacGuffin....
Welcome to Triforcebooks.com - Pandora's box triforce books are hybrid books combining fiction and history by Alan Davis. The fictional story revolves around life lessons and my past experiences.
Hitchcock brilliantly took a minor character from the novel, Marion Crane, and elevated her story into one of the greatest MacGuffins in film history, while reshaping the character of Norman Bates into something creepier and more dangerous than the alcoholic, middle-aged version in the book. ...
The notion of the whale-hunt really just seems to be a device – the “MacGuffin”, as Hitchcock called it – to motivate the characters, and thereby allow certain themes to be explored. The first third of the book consists largely of an introduction to characters and locations, with the...
work here. There is an interesting premise, but then it goes to macguffin town (which is fine), and also just misses a spark for me in terms of its characters. I am a character reader, so while the plot had great peaks and valleys, the characters left a lot to be desired for me....
s revolutionary periods and the Scarlet Pimpernel delivers on that and sweetly – despite being absurdly purple in its prose, snobbish, and xenophobic as all hell. What I liked most of all is that the Pimpernel is not the hero, but the macguffin. He’s what everyone’s after. Fun stuff....
who needs the Dial of Archimedes to rewrite history. Alfred Hitchcock famously said that it mattered very little what the MacGuffin was so long as it provided the requisite narrative jolt. In this sense, these Nazis are the film’s real MacGuffin, a vacant fabrication with none of the histori...