Every person has their own story. In the novel “The Things They Carried”, by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien talks about his experiences of being thrown into the Vietnam war as a young innocent soldier and explains how not only did he become strongly affected by the…
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In “A Rose for Emily” the narrator talks about a woman who has a mental illness that is labeled idiosyncratic this illness caused her to suffer and struggle immensely with her instability and with evolving in what happens to be the world around her. Emily…
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Can utopia be attained and maintained without suffering or subjugation? This perennial question has garnered the attention of authors Ursula K. LeGuin and Ewan Morrison in their discourse against the dangers of utopian societies. LeGuin, who wrote the esteemed short story “The Ones Who Walk…
‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’ is a short story written by a Colombian writer named Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The short story was considered by most as an archetype of magic realism that helps the readers to see reality more closely. The story was…
Someone once said knowledge is power and ignorance is bliss. Society may agree that knowledge is power, but too much power can cause someone to lose themselves. In the movie “Spanglish”, there was a little girl who lived with her mom who worked as a…
In the Victorian Era the nineteenth century, women had specific roles that were determined by the Cult of Domesticity. Women, in the eyes of men, were seen as lesser in every aspect than men. In this era, some women became known for their poetry…
Every successful author has various writing approaches within their pieces of literature. These writing techniques are much like an artist’s signature at the bottom of a canvased masterpiece, to indicate to viewers and spectators, or in this case, readers, that a piece of work belongs…
Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer whose works have been influential in discussing the life of minorities in America as well as their internal struggles due to race and culture. Some of his most famous works delve into this topic. Specifically, Díaz focused on how…
Halloween At Luke’s by Priya Pasumarthy is a delightful tale that takes place on Halloween. Every year at this time, the Luke family decorate their home on Arrow Street with pumpkins, skeletons, and spooky witches. This year the theme is, “Togetherness is Happiness!” Will this…
Liz was on night shift duty as a waitress in a restaurant that day. She decided to send her gratitude in an innovative way to the firemen. And she did not expect anything in return for her sweet gesture. But those firemen had decided to…
I will never forget my granddad that cut hair at his shop for a living and preached at a Church of Christ church on Sunday. Elmer, as I called granddad, had his own way of doing things and he really enjoyed conversation with his patrons….
James Joyce’s Dubliners is a post-colonial short story cycle that tells stories about life in Dublin at that time. The stories’ unity is shown “by several different themes and images” such as “religious images and ideas” (Murphy 97; Ghiselin, 39). One of those religious images…
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer, best known for writing about the vast scenery of the American heartland and the pioneers who settled there during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Cather drew inspiration from life in Nebraska after her family relocated there…
I read the story “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather. As I started reading the story, I understand the setting, and the time period. The story holds the reader from the beginning and lets her reader to analyze the reader. The story talks about the boy…
In both Paul’s Case and A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather main characters find escape in music. Paul is a troubled young soul who is having a hard time finding purpose in this world. Paul soon finds happiness at Carnegie Hall Theatre he falls in…
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1. Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Analysis
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
3. “Everyday Use” By Alice Walker: Characters’ Analysis
4. The Feminism In The Yellow Wallpaper And The Story Of An Hour
5. Hills Like White Elephants And Hemingway’s Other Stories Analysis
6. How To Date A Brown Girl (Blackgirl, Whitegirl, Or Halfie): Works Of Junot Diaz
7. Halloween At Luke’s by Priya Pasumarthy
8. How Firefighters Returned the Good Deed of a Waitress
9. My Grandad and Just a Barber
10. How to Understand Dubliners Better
11. Paul’s Case: A Study In Sexuality
12. Analyzing The Paul’s Story And Its Themes
13. The Escapism In Paul’s Case And A Wagner Matinee
14. Paul’s Case: A Short Story About The Obsession With Money
15. The Role Of Money And American Dream In Paul’s Case
Show moreThe short story “Boy and Girls” takes place in the 1940s. This was era where women were viewed very differently from men. Many of the problems women face in today’s world, in regard to gender stereotypes derive from this time period. The girl in the…
The first section focuses on our universe and where we fit in. The first chapter details the Big Bang Theory, which suggests that the universe was formed in just a few brief moments, it talks about what is needed to start a universe and how…
Alice Walker’s Everyday Use, included in the In Love and Trouble short story collection, was published in 1973, a moment in history known as the ‘Black Power Movement’. This movement encouraged racial pride and equality. Everyday Use relates the struggles of African American women due…
The Yellow Wallpaper In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator is suffering from a nervous depression which was a slight hysterical tendency. John, which was her physician and husband did not believe that there was anything wrong. Of course, during the 19th-century mental…
Taking care of his flowers was the only taste of joy in those bland days of prison. I honestly thought this was going to be an educational book filled with short stories about people’s hardships during the massacre’s that happened in Iran in the 1980’s,…
The use of foreshadowing in “secret in Slovakia” keeps us readers intrigued. In the 2nd paragraph, the narrator mentions that her aunt never had children of her own and was a governess. This makes the mood of the story suspenseful, wondering why she never had…
In the short story “Miracle Boy,” written by Pickney Benedict, we are shown the diversity of four different kids Miracle Boy, Lizard, Geronimo, and Eskimo Pie. We can infer by the language usage and the way it was written the time period, which can also…
“The Overcoat” is a short story written by the Russian Nikolai Gogol. This book is about a public servant named Akakiy Akakievich Bashmachkin a man of not very good resources who lived in St. Petersburg, every day he was seen in the same place with…
Author Edwidge Danticat introduces the short story “New York Day Women” as a first-person point of view with limitations based on the knowledge of Suzette. The conflict begins as Suzette starts worrying about her mother when she sees her walking around alone on the streets…
Living Like Weasels is a fascinatingly beautiful story about an encounter between the writer and a wild weasel; an encounter that she claims is the first of its kind for her. While considering the weasel, the writer expounds on a number of ideas, especially those…
The short story, “On the Rainy River” written by Tim O’Brien, is based on his life experience when a month after graduating from Macalester College he was drafted to fight in war. O’Brien talks about the experience of living with the shame of events, which…
“The Gnome,” is a short story about a king’s love for a tree that indirectly causes him to hurt those dearest to him, his three daughters. All three of his daughters are sucked deep into the ground when they trigger a protective spell that was…
One Day Angelou’s “story”, Graduation, appeals to pathos and ethos. Pathos appeals to pity or sadness, basically emotion; while ethos appeals to ethics. As Angelou’s “story” starts she expresses and describes the excitement of her graduation with each detail, such as, “[m]y class was wearing…