Essays on Short Story

It’s raining. He wipes away at her perfectly smeared makeup on her delicately painted face. After a dramatic pause, they share a passion filled kiss as a symphony engulfs them. Then, the music suddenly cuts and a person in a director’s chair tells them they…

Charles Perrault’s original version of “Blue Beard” is about a very rich blue bearded man who looked scary and was despised by most people. Besides the fact that Blue Beard was unattractive, he underwent several wives in which all of them started crossing their marital…

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…

As you grow into a teenager, reality begins to hit you all at once. Everything you once did not care about all begins to matter. Your social life and appearance become very important and this is why most teenagers hate the idea of growing up….

It is Sunday around 7pm and a little quiet so here goes, I received two more letters from you yesterday, I was delighted to have the two articles, and have not grown tired of looking at them. I hope you are all looking fine and…

The Martian is a story about Mark Watney, a botanist on the third mission to mars called Ares 3. Mark and his crew flew for nearly a year to land on mars to study and run experiments. But then one day when they were collecting…

The Miller’s Tale: A Parody of Courtly love Throughout the Middle Ages, courtly love was a common practice used by knights and noble men. It was considered a noble way for them to idealize and make a woman an object of worship. These men would…

One day a girl named Victoria was going on an adventure to explore her new surroundings of her new home. She moved with her tribe from Maui to Hawaii Island. So, when she set off to go adventure she made sure to let her tribe…

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese storyteller that allegedly allows the reader to become very aware of the story but if not the actual meaning. Murakami short stories convey many overwhelming themes that affect the characters in drastic ways. He also uses distraction as a way…

Throughout the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, eastern Europe was a region of constant oppression and objectification. Tight communities, including the Jewish people of small villages, were frowned upon by many, and in return, developed their own unique way of living life on…