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SPECULATIVE FICTION/SCI-FICLASSIC NOVELS THAT HAVE THE GENRE OF SPECULATIVE FICTION/SCI-FI:
1984
Clock Work Orange
A Wrinkle in Time
War of the Worlds
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Atlas Shrugged
The Time Machine
Fahrenheit 451
Catch 22
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Slaughter House Five
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Cat’s Cradle
HORRORCLASSIC NOVELS THAT HAVE THE GENRE OF HORROR:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Legend of Sleepy Hallow
Frankenstein
The Pit and The Pendulum
Dracula
The Picture of Dorian Gray
REALISTIC FICTION/HISTORICALCLASSIC NOVELS THAT HAVE THE GENRE REALISTIC FICTION/HISTORICAL:
A Man With Out A Country
Of Mice and Men
Ulysses
War and Peace
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Grapes of Wrath
The Death of Socrates
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Great Gatsby
Les Miserables
All The King’s Men
HIGH SOCIETYCLASSIC NOVELS OF WHICH INVOLVE THE UPPER CLASS OR HIGH SOCIETY:
Great Expectations
Les Miserables
Pride and Prejudice
Gone With The Wind
Fountain Head
A Tale of Two Cities
FANTASYCLASSIC NAVELS THAT HAVE THE GENRE OF FANTASY:
The Divine Comedy
The Odyssey
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Beowulf
Animal Farm
ADVENTURECLASSIC NOVELS THAT HAVE THE GENRE OF ADVENTURE:
The Princess Bride
Hamlet
The Hunch Back of Notre Dom
The Old Man and The Sea
A Man With Out A Country
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
Les Miserables
Robinson Crusoe
A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Moby Dick
King Arthur and The Knights of The Round Table
Lord of The Flies
The Sea Wolf
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1984 War of the Worlds
Animal Farm The Odyssey Beowulf
Clockwork Orange
20,000 Leagues Under the sea
The Fountain Head
A Midsummers Night Dream
The Divine Comedy
Wrinkle in time
The Strange Case of dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Tale of Two Cities
The Sea Wolf The Lord of the Flies
Atlas Shrugged The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Gone With the Wind
King Arthur and the knights of the round table
Moby dick
The Time Machine
Frankenstein Pride and Prejudice
Robinson Crusoe
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Fahrenheit 451 The Pit and the Pendulum
Great Expectations
The old man and the sea
The Count of Monte Cristo
Catch-22 Dracula Les Miserables The Hunch Back of Notre Dom
Hamlet
Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
The Picture of Dorian Gray
the Great Gatsby
A man Without a Country
The Princess Bride
Slaughter House Five
All the King’s Men
The Death of Socrates
Uncla Tom’s Cabin
Grapes of Wrath
Cat’s Cradle Of Mice and Men Ulysses War and Peace To Kill a Mockingbird
TABLE KEY
All the boxes that are the same color as this box are speculator fiction/Sci-fi
All the boxes that are the same color as this box are both speculator fiction/Si-fi and horror.
All the boxes that are the same color as this box is horror.
All the boxes that are the same color as this box are realistic fiction/ historical.
All the boxes that are the same color as this box are both realistic fiction/ historical and high society.
All the boxes that are the same color as this box are high society.
All the boxes that are the same color as this box is both realistic fiction/ historical and adventure.
All the boxes that are the same color as this box are adventure.
All the boxes that are the same color as this box are both adventure and fantasy.
All the boxes that are the same color as this box are fantasy.
QUESTIONS
Describe the basis of your arrangement. (What unique characteristic(s) allow(s) your objects to be arranged in their particular manner?)
We based our arrangement/ categorization on the themes and genres of the books we categorized. We chose to use genre as our basis of categorization because it is already a widely known and used system in bookstores and libraries. We chose a color-coded table to visually represent this system. Each category is represented by a different color. There are also colors for multi-category combinations.
What are the important features of your table?
There are multiple important features of our table, one of which is the method by which it visually conveys our methods of categorization and the items (books) categorized therein. As stated in the previous answer, each color represents a distinct category that describes one or more of the items (books). Again, there are also colors for multi-category combos. These the categories the colors represent are listed in a key.
QUESTIONS
How is the arrangement of objects similar to the Periodic table of elements? Explain.
There are multiple ways in which our arrangement of objects is similar to the periodic table of elements. One example is that both arrangements can be divided into different groups. In fact, this property is vital to our table. Another way in which our arrangements are similar is that they both categorize their respective contents according to said contents’ properties. In our case, the properties used were genre and thematic components. In the Periodic table of Elements, the properties used are more having to do with electrons and neutrons and such.
How is your arrangement different from the periodic table of elements? Explain.
There are quite a few ways in which our arrangement is different from the Periodic Table of Elements. In fact, there are probably more dissimilarities than similarities. In the PT of E, columns and rows and their relative positions and arrangement hold great significance. This is not so in our arrangement. In ours, we rely more on non-linear groupings to convey information.
QUESTIONS
Mendeleev and other scientists have created a periodic table of elements and predicted characteristics of missing elements. Make a prediction about an object on your table that has not yet been discovered (the object will follow the last known one on your table). You should provide an actual example of the object and you should provide detailed reasoning for why this particular object will fit into your periodic table according to your argument.
I predict that when Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is “discovered”, it will easily fill in a “missing” space in our table. This is because it fits at least one, and arguably more, categories on the table. It first of all fits, most obviously, in the Fantasy and Fantasy/ Adventure categories. It would fit into these categories because it is rife with fantastical elements and the protagonist certainly goes on an adventure.