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Hills Like White Elephants Clean Well Lighted Place
2,607 words"You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like This is a paper about Ernest Hemingway's short stories The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1938? ), Hills like White Elephants (1927), Cat in the Rain (1923? ), The Killers (1927) and A Clean Well-Lighted Place (1933). However, to understand Hemingway and his short stories I find it necessary to take a brief look at his life and background first. It is not easy to sum up Ernest Hemingway's adventurous life in a few paragraphs, bu...
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Rose For Emily Short Stories
1,027 wordsWilliam Cuthbert Falkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. He was the eldest of four brothers from Murry and Maud Butler Falkner (later in his life he restored the "u" to the family name). As a child William always had a strong interest in the arts. He enjoyed painting, writing poetry and other forms of art. During his elementary years William excelled and skipped the second grade (Helmster). However during his early teens he began to waiver and lost interest in school, ...
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Analysis Of Dubliner By James Joyce
1,493 wordsAnalysis of Dubliner by James Joyce Abstract This four-page paper examines and discusses James Joyce constant use of the themes of family dynamics, marriage and economic realities in hist collection of fifteen short stories, Dubliners, published in 1907 -- - Dubliners. The paper references many of the short stories, which through symbolism conveys Joyce's central leitmotif that realistically paints Dublin and its citizenry of the early 1900 s. Joyce use the city of of the setting, Dublin in his ...
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Alice Munro Fairy Tale
2,098 wordsAlice Munro Alice Munro was born in a family of farmers in Canada. One of the brilliant short stories writers she was awarded with a number of literally prizes. The protagonists of her short stories are women of her age. She does not go far from her native place and finds her heroes just in the neighborhood she lives. Being a master of the word she was acclaimed by short-story writer Cynthia Ozick as "our Chekhov." 1 Munro similar to Chekhov succeeds in finding her plots in the everyday life of ...
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Novels And Short Stories Plot Lines
1,052 wordsAuthors Charles Baxter Charles Baxter Authors often write differently in novels then in short stories. This isnt always the case but most times it is. Charles Baxter writes pretty much the same way in his novels as he does in his short stories. In all of Baxter's stories, there is always an element of realistic features. Theres always something you think could happen to you. Baxter takes real life events but always adds a little twist to plot to intrigue the reader. He is known across America fo...
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Story Is Told Chinese Culture
1,310 wordsCulture Clash The two short stories, The Tenant by Mukherjee and The Red Sweater by Ng bear many similarities as well as differences. The authors of these two stories go about conveying basically the same message, however, with a slight variety. In these short stories, Mukherjee and Ng go into detail of the lives of two young women struggling with their identities as immigrants in the American culture. This clashing of cultures, predominantly the Asian culture (in these cases), against the Ameri...
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3,861 wordsDisjunction Vs. Communion In Raymond Carvers Short Disjunction Vs. Communion In Raymond Carvers Short Stories Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carvers Short Stories Raymond Carver, poet, essayist, and short story writer, was very different from some other writers in that he clipped his writing until only the essential remained. Carver not only acknowledged the effect that fiction could have on readers, he proclaimed that it should affect readers. (Bonetti 58) Thus, when Carver writes about i...
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Edgar Allan Poe Detective Stories
713 wordsEdgar Allan Poe had one of the greatest impacts on American Romantic and Gothic literature. All the grief that he put up with he put into his short stories and poetry. He could translate anything bad that came into his life in to words this is one of the ways he would cope with things and he was great at it. Edgar Allan Poe? s mother died when he was two years old after his father left the family about a year prior. ? His mother died at the tender age of twenty-four dealt two-year-old Edgar a cr...
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Edgar Allan Poe First Person Narrative
1,069 wordsEdgar Allan Poe Uses His Narrative Style Edgar Allan Poe Uses His Narrative Style And Element Of Time To Portray A Theme Of Death The Tell-Tale Heart is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. The story has the ability to create an illusion of reality by enhancing the readers senses and therefore allowing them to further enter into the story. Poe emphasizes themes such as insanity, hideous murders and death to entice readers and reach into their fears. Time is slowed down to intensif...
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Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allen Poe
2,783 wordsThe influences of Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe is considered to be one of the best when it comes to Early American Literature. He is most famous for the short stories and poems that he had written. The question posed here is why did Edgar Allen Poe write poems and short stories that are filled with horror and the presence of Death. Many believe that it was his addiction to alcohol and the events that he had to endure during his lifetime. Events such as the death of his mother and abandonment ...
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2,428 wordsErnest Hemingway The Man and His Work On July 2, 1961, a writer whom many critics call the greatest writer of this century, a man who had a zest for adventure, a winner of the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize, a man who held esteem everywhere on that July day, that man put a shotgun to his head and killed himself. That man was Ernest Hemingway. Though he chose to end his life, his heart and soul lives on through his many books and short stories. Hemingway's work is his voice on how he viewed s...
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Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
1,633 wordsIn the genre of science fiction, many writers have changed the way people think about the future and the thoughts of society, but none have created the same amount of change as Ray Bradbury. Through his unique writing style of combining science fiction and sophisticated writing, (Discovering Authors 1) Ray Bradbury changed the genre of science fiction by questioning society's absent-minded use of technology by portraying apocalyptic futures. His works have inspired many science fiction writers a...
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Rises Must Converge Good Country People
1,453 wordsFlannery O? Connor? s Themes: Alienation, True Country, and the Demonic O? Connor uses many themes throughout all of her works. Her most criticized themes are alienation, true country life, and the demonic. Throughout the short stories of? A Good Man is Hard to Find? , ? Everything That Rises Must Converge? , ? Good Country People? , ? The Life you Save Might be your Own? , ? The Geranium? , ? A Circle in the Fire? , and? The River? O? Connor speaks of her heritage and her religious faults. ? Mi...
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Collection Of Short Stories End Of The Book
1,150 words? A novel or a collection of short stories? ? may be a question that a critic asks about Rattlebone. Maxine Clair portrays both arguments with her energetic writing style. A blend of random comments and many unique phrases intermix with the intense plot. Writing like this gives the reader a more relaxed state and the book seems more alive and real. In answer to the critique question, Maxine Clair is writing a novel because of an abundant supply of foreshadowing, a collection of narrators, a recu...
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4,595 wordsGuy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant is acknowledged through the world as one of the masters of the short story; Guy de Maupassant was also the author of a collection of poetry, a volume of plays, three travel journals, six novels, and many chronicles. He produced some three hundred short stories in the single decade from 1880 to 1890; a period during which he produced most of his other works. Five of his six novels were published during the second half of the decade. His short fiction has been c...
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Detroit Michigan Gale Contemporary Literary Criticism
2,165 wordsThe 1950 s were a time of conservatism, the traditional American family, and similarity. During this time of the cherished American dream, a radical writer, who spoke to a nation of young individuals and alienated adults, emerged. Jerome David Salinger, generally referred to as J. D. Salinger, surfaced as a spokesman for a generation of post-World War II students and became one of the most popular American fiction writers. Salinger is most widely known for his only novel, The Catcher in the Rye....
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Detroit Michigan Gale Contemporary Literary Criticism
3,543 wordsA Biography of J. D. Salinger with Concentration on the Early 1950? s, Particularly 1951 - 1952. 1. The 1950? s were a time of conservatism, the traditional American family, and similarity. During this time of the cherished American dream, a radical writer, who spoke to a nation of young individuals and alienated adults, emerged. Jerome David Salinger, generally referred to as J. D. Salinger, surfaced as a spokesman for a generation of post-World War II students and became one of the most popula...
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Goodman Brown Begins Young Goodman Brown
9,627 wordsKate Chopin is one of the first female writers to address female issues, primarily sexuality. Chopin declares that women are capable of overt sexuality in which they explore and enjoy their sexuality. Chopin shows that her women are capable of loving more than one man at a time. They are not only attractive but sexually attracted (Ziff 148). Two of Chopin's stories that reflect this attitude of sexuality are The Awakening and one of her short stories The Storm. Although critics now acclaim these...
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Quot And Quot Katherine Mansfield
1,555 wordsKatherine Mansfield, who lived from 1888 to 1923, is considered to be one of the most remarkable short story writers of her time. Using her life experiences as an inspiration for her short stories, Mansfield sculpted her ideas into masterful pieces of literary work. Mansfield's life was full of interesting experiences that shaped her outlook upon life. The diversity of friends and acquaintances Katherine Mansfield had over her lifetime also had a great influence on her career. Even as a child, M...
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Principal Characters Red Dress
596 wordsThe Red Dress and The Day of The Butterfly are two very interesting stories, written by an exceptional Canadian author, Alice Munro. Both of these stories are well written and can be associated with what goes on in today s society. The principal characters, human relationships, and the importance of symbolism exist, in both of these stories, strongly. There are many similarities, and also differences between the two short stories, that compare and contrast what can be viewed upon in our daily li...
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