Aïssatou Cissokho, a Senegalese writer, in Dakar, la touriste autochtone (1986; "Dakar, the Native Tourist"), depicts a character returning from Europe and finding things much the same in Dakar.
It's not a good sign when a main character returns to the stage, and it takes you a couple of seconds to remember who he is.
The book turns the sprightly, whirring tradition of picaresque on its head: in contradistinction to the outward-bound jauntiness of Henry Fielding's heroes, we have a book whose one stab at a central character returns home only to get lost in the crowd.
The film tries to imitate the hip self-consciousness of the "Scream" movies by introducing deliberate cliches (a murdered character returns as his own twin brother) and spoofing hoary conventions (instead of running toward safety, potential victims invariably flee toward the nearest dark wood).
After a decade-long hiatus from national advertising, the Jolly Green Giant, an 80-year-old character, returns in a campaign beginning today in print ads and broadcast commercials from General Mills.
When an escaped fictional character returns to his book, the reader Meggie is trapped there too; a sequel to "Inkheart".
Pollack believes that Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr .opposed the pun simply because Holmes said so, claiming, in "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," that if you killed a man for punning, "the jury would be judges of both the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide".
Mirisch revealed that because of the famous scene in which Poitier's character "returns" a slap in the face to a white plantation owner (which does not appear in the 1965 novel), Hollywood producers strongly considered not making "Heat" altogether.
Despite Whedon's claim that the fourth season is a 'final statement' for Connor, the character returns for a couple guests appearances in the fifth.
