Paradise Island: A Dreamer's Guide to the Life Lessons We Learn From Our Own Human Nature

· Maven Publishing
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Paradise Island is a fable about a young adventurer who travels to the sunny, fun-filled island of his dreams, but struggles to keep paradise found from becoming paradise lost. This illustrated short story presents a satire on human nature. “Human nature” are two words that are used often, but what exactly do they mean? This work explores, in narrative form, that mysterious collage of traits, emotions, and idiosyncrasies that describes the way we are and the way we behave — our envy, vanity, greed, and white lies as well as our loyalty, generosity, love, and honor.

Target audience: This story is ideally suited to high school or college students studying English literature or philosophy and lends itself to classroom or group discussion. Weaving together fantasy, satire, and philosophy, and using the bar world as a backdrop, Paradise Island explores the topic of human nature and shows the folly in believing that we can control our own human nature.

“A delectable dish of human foible, served with parsnips baked in irony oil, all topped with a sprinkling of satire-roasted fennel seeds.” —Justin Hurwitz,
 Editor, The Harvard Lampoon

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3.5
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About the author

Brandon Royal is an award-winning writer whose educational authorship includes The Little Blue Reasoning Book, The Little Red Writing Book, The Little Gold Grammar Book, and The Little Green Math Book. He continues to write and publish in the belief that there will always be a place for books that inspire, enlighten, and enrich.

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