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Edgar Allen Poe Red Badge Of Courage
3,021 wordsFear is defined as a condition between anxiety and terror either natural and well-grounded or unreasoned and blind. Fear is one emotion that everyone dislikes, and it is as unavoidable as night or day. Through the use of novels, plays, films, short stories, and poems it becomes clear that fear is an emotion that the writer like to heighten not only in the protagonist, but also in the reader. After reading great works by people such as George Orwell and Stephen King, it becomes clear that fear in...
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Complicated Realm Sexual Encounter
1,162 words'SOLDIER'S HOME': ANOTHER STORY OF A BROKEN HEART He knew he could never get through it all again. "I don't want to go through that hell again. " In the works of Ernest Hemingway, that which is excluded is often as significant as that which is included; a hint is often as important and thought-provoking as an explicit statement. This is why we read and reread him. "Soldier's Home " is a prime example of this art of echo and indirection. Harold Krebs, the protagonist of "Soldier's Home, " is a yo...
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Katherine Anne Porter Holy Spirit
1,063 wordsBorn May 15, 1890, in Indian Creek, Texas; Katherine Anne Porter has written numerous short stories and a novel. Katherine Anne Porter uses autobiographical information and symbolism to relate the story of Miranda's maturation into adulthood in her short story The Grave. In The Grave, Miranda discovers her feminine side (West 28), and although she is only a child, Miranda understands a few of the events that shape a person into adulthood (Mooney 20). Porters genius as a writer is most evident in...
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Point Of View Miss Moore
1,086 wordsA social activist, writer, teacher, and graduate from Queens College, Toni Cade, who later changed legally to Toni Cade Bambara, is one of the representatives of the Afro- American writers and black socially political black activist in American history. She has made many contributions to the inner city especially in her own upbringing in Bed- Study, NY and Harlem where she was born, March 25, 1939. Growing up in what was then one of the roughest cities she managed to succeed in life with her man...
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Miss Moore Main Character
542 wordsIn the short story "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara the story is an instrument for social transformation. The story represents an instrument of Social transformation because the characters standings in society in the short story is very poor and Miss Moore teaches guides them to acquire greater things in life by one trip to the town. The characters in the story are poor and are guided by Miss Moore. This story indicates the beginning steps of social transformation. Throughout the short story Mi...
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Shirley Jackson Inanimate Object
1,121 wordsThe theme of violence and tradition is persuasive in the short story The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson. This theme is not a generalized theme of violence, but a theme of ritualistic violence. This violence is shown in the traditional town-wide lottery drawing that takes place on each June 27 th. However, this lottery is not to draw a winner of some great prize, but seeks to draw a loser whose life will be taken. This ritual has been practiced for so long that the townspeople are no longer a...
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Nazi Movement Short Story
560 wordsWhat if a there was one feature on or in a human being that separated them into two groups, with each filled with hate for the other? With the Asian ethnicity and white race being the two most dominate ethnic / racial groups in the world, imagine these two groups having nothing but pure hatred for the other, and a world completely divided. This scenario is the basis for James Alan Gardners short story, Three Hearings Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream. In this story, instead of using r...
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Anton Chekhov Sons Death
660 wordsAnton Chekhov's Misery relates his readers to the awful reality of death. Iona, the main character in the story, is a cabdriver who desperately tries to find someone to talk to about his sons death. He is able to meet and talk to different people of different background because of his job but he is not able to communicate about his suffering, so in the end he tells his mare about his sons death instead. Misery is told in the first persons point of view. Iona, being the central character, has fla...
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Edgar Allan Poe Dramatic Irony
630 wordsOne of the main themes of Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask Of Amontillado is revenge. In this summary theme I intend to demonstrate how dramatic irony is used all along the short story as a way of reminding us the true intentions of the character who vowed revenge. Firstly I will make a brief summary of the short story: the story is supposed to happen more than a hundred years ago (it was first published in 1846) during Italian Carnival festivities. The main character, a man called Montressor, feels t...
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Rises Must Converge Flannery O'connor
1,553 wordsFlannery O'Connor was a Southern writer especially noted for 32 incisive short stories before a tragic death at the age of 39. Mary Flannery O'Connor was born March 25, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia, the only child of Francis and Regina O'Connor. The family lived on Lafayette Square at 207 East Charlton Street in Savannah, adjacent to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, where Mary Flannery was baptized into the Catholic faith on April 12, 1925. She attended school at St. Vincent's grammar school,...
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Kate Chopin Silk Stockings
591 wordsIn his Essay "The Art of Fiction" Henry James speaks through his character Walter Bessant about twelve points dealing with how fiction is an art. Three of these points which I found to be important were how fiction can be portrayed as a form of art but he explains also that fiction has no set form in which a book can be written. He views fiction as being more artistic than paintings and he also believes that fiction is not to be judged by morality like a painting might be. Henry James states "A ...
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Alice Walker Mending Wall
636 wordsRoselily -A short story by Alice Walker In the short story? Roselily? , Alice Walker tells two stories in one. The most obvious story is the one about the Black American woman Roselily, who stands before the alter, just about to marry a muslim, while she thinks about her past, wonders about the future and is questioning whether she is making the right choice. The other, hidden story is the story about Black American women in general, their history and their ongoing search for something better. T...
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J D Salinger F Scott Fitzgerald
1,544 wordsJ. D. Salinger The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. -James Bryce In 1945, a novel was published that would forever change the way society views itself. The book, entitled The Catcher in the Rye, would propel a man named Jerome David Salinger to fame as one of the most famous authors of the twentieth century. This same man, not ten years after the publication and while still in the peak of his career, would depart from this society- the one that he so greatly ...
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Eyes Were Watching God Melting Pot
1,399 wordsDr. Jordan Humanities Diversity Casey Knapp Dr. Jordan Humanities 002 4 / 27 / 98 Diversity in the American Society For years America has been considered a melting pot containing people of all backgrounds who have come to this land to make a new start as one. The promise of America was the promise of equal opportunity regardless of class, religion or ethnic origin. However, Native Americans had been forced off to reservations, African Americans left the segregated South to find themselves living...
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3,390 wordsShort Story Perversity Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. He defined the form of the American short story. As one might expect, Poe himself eschewed conventional morality, which he believed stems from mans attempts to dictate the purposes of God. Poe saw God more as process than purpose. He believed that moralis...
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Good Country People Boston G K Hall
2,703 wordsA Good Man Is Hard To Find and Good Country People are two short stories written by Flannery OConnor during her short lived writing career. Despite the literary achievements of Oconnor's works, she is often criticized for the grotesqueness of her characters and endings of her short stories and novels. Her writings have been described as understated, orderly, un experimental fiction, with a Southern backdrop and a Roman Catholic vision, in defiance, it would seem, of those restless innovators who...
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Clean Well Lighted Place Older Waiter
972 wordsHemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place and His Life Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21 st, 1899. He was the son of Dr. Clarence Edmonds and Grace Hall Hemingway. He grew up in a small town called Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway was brought up in a somewhat conservative household by his parents who pushed the value of politeness and religion. It wasnt until he began English classes in school that his writing talent began to shine. After he graduated from high school Hemingway turned his back on ...
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Rose For Emily Introduction To Literature
587 wordsMany Letting Go Letting Go Many people hate to let things go. People find security and comfort in their possessions and the company they keep. If all this is ripped away from a person, it can have a very negative effect on that person? s life. In Faulkner? s short story, ? A Rose for Emily, ? everything that a person knows is gradually taken away from her gradually leading to her madness. Miss Emily, the main character in this short story, is an example of a time that once was. ? Miss Emily had ...
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Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,540 wordsNathaniel Hawthorne is a nineteenth-century American writer of the Romantic Movement. Hawthorne was born is Salem, Massachusetts, and this is the place he used as the setting for some of his works: such as? The Scarlett Letter? , ? the Blithedale Romance? and? Young Goodman Brown? . In writing, Hawthorne was known for his use of allegory and symbolism, which made his stories a joy for everyone to read. Hawthorne was said to be the first American writer who was conscious of the failure of modern ...
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Short Story Quote Shows
2,022 wordsOn The Short Story Phineas Comparison Of On The Short Story Phineas Comparison Of Character Traits Phineas And Gene Phineas and Gene: A Comparative Study To be an opposite of something or someone means to be the furthest from being like that person or object. One can say this for Gene and Phineas in the short story Phineas by John Knowles. Through reading the story one comes to see that Gene is an exact opposite of Phineas. One could say that Gene is insecure, envious, an admirer, intellectual a...
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