Essays on Short Story

While reading the story “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, I developed many opinions about the characters in the story. O’Connor very significantly names the characters to show their personality. The three main characters Joy (Hulga), Mrs. Hopewell Mrs. Freeman. Each of these characters has…

The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative, published in 2003, is in part an anecdote that recognizes the power behind creation stories. Perhaps more than that, it is also about the influence that stories hold and the dangers that tailgate what a story includes or…

“It’s Christmas!” my brother shouted, echoing his arrogant voice through the hallway. I shoved my blankets off my pink bed and rushed out of my room. Our small feet slapped against the wooden floors of the hallways as my brother and I raced to get…

She sat in her garden, furtively knitting a scarf, and waiting impatiently for the next potentially interesting event to happen that she could share with all of the ladies in her town. Her tightly pulled back hair matched her thin, drawn back mouth, and an…

There are already different ways of reading you in my own skin: by verses, by ink and by kisses. That’s why, when I miss you, I gently stroke my wrist and suddenly something awakens in me: a reminder that it costs less to get up…

It was summer 2007, my parents had separated a couple months earlier, and I was about to start 2nd grade in a new town, on the outside of Tampa, Fl. I didn’t know what was going on at the time, I didn’t know why my…

Alia stared at the night sky with a heart-warming smile as she stood on the rooftop of her school. A pitch dark sky filled with beautiful, glowing, shining stars flashing above her. Beautiful. Stars are beautiful. No matter what happens or what goes around them,…

Іn Неаlth Маttеrs, Іt’s Тhе Оld “Gоldеn Rulе” – “Не Whо Наs Тhе Gоld – Rulеs! “Yоur Dосtоr Саn’t Сurе Yоur Саnсеr. Весаusе — Не Саn’t Рrеvеnt оr Сurе Ніs Оwn!” ~ Lоrrаіnе Dау, М.D. Lоrrаіnе Dау grаduаtеd frоm thе Unіvеrsіtу оf Саlіfоrnіа, Ѕаn Frаnсіsсо,…

Recently I was appealed to many things I hated before. The traditional folk song “Hoa Trinh nu”, which referred to an anecdote of the popular wildflower, was on the loop of replaying all night. Although soap opera was strictly prohibited during Vietnam war for the…

The story itself is one that many grew up with. It is a story which has been told numerous times where it has led to different variations of it. Regardless of the different variations of the story it can be said that its prophecies led…