Embedded within the delicate wings of a moth lies a story that transcends its physical form. The story of the moth is more than a tale of transformation and the pursuit of light; it serves as a metaphor for human aspirations, struggles, and the eternal...
Frank R. Stockton's short story "The Lady or the Tiger" has captivated readers for decades with its enigmatic ending that leaves the resolution of the narrative up to interpretation. This essay delves into the significance of the story's open ending, the author's intent, and the...
Ernest Hemingway's short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a poignant exploration of the human condition, loneliness, and the search for meaning in an often chaotic world. Set in a quiet café late at night, the story delves into the lives of its characters and...
Introduction “The plough was already scoring the field opposite the window, and where the share had been, the earth was pressed flat and gleamed with moisture.” The book The Death of the Moth, by Virginia Woolf, is a high imagination book which has a lot...
In multiple forms of literature, we see characters struggle to develop their personal identities. These characters often struggle to develop these identities because of conflicts against their environment, society or within themselves that prevent such change. The qualities or beliefs of a character may change...
Similes are quite often used within the short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter”. An example of this can be identified in the title, which can also be interpreted as: “Like a lamb to the slaughter” the lamb in the story is used as a symbol...
Suspense is dominant in both Poe’s and Shelley's novels. However, suspense is demonstrated similarly and differently by the two authors. Firstly, in the short story “The Tell- Tale Heart” Poe used the technique of suspense efficiently by employing frantic diction and first-person point-of-view to bring...
Setting Neil Ramsorrun’s short story “Dukwane’s Deliverance” is set in London and spans over a couple of days. Although the time setting is not mentioned, we can assume the events probably happen around the time the short story was published in 2010. Physical setting The...
Everyone has a dream in life, while on this path to make the dream come true, there can be many hard decisions to make. These decisions can make a big impact on your life, so you need to follow your own instincts. You will probably...
Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written in a period when women were oppressed by men: they were meant to be seen and not heard. The story does not discuss what John is treating the narrator as an official diagnosis. “As the story progresses, the...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper” serves as a perfect example of how women have been persecuted in the 19th century. Throughout the story, the main character, as she observes the house while in isolation, notices the true meaning in life, specifically for women. Gilman’s...
In “The Case for Animal Rights” Tom Reagan argues that seeing animals as resources created for human use rather than beings is fundamentally wrong regardless of how you decide to justify it. (value). In “An Animal’s place” Michael Pollan argues that the brutalization animals endure...
Charlotte Perkins Stetson is recognized as one of the important figures in the social reform movement of the late 1800s to early 1920s. Pieces of her life experiences are woven into the plot of her most recognized fictional short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Stetson’s short...
Author Charlotte Gilman in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' gives a personal tale about emotional wellness care during her time. This record is close to home, as the character in the story has encounters near what author Gilman had during her time of getting the 'resting cure'...
In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses symbolism throughout the story, which gives the story a deeper meaning. After recently giving birth to her child, the narrator, a writer, happens to find herself more and more depressed, as well as undefinably fatigued...
The Yellow Wallpaper written by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman was published in January 1892. The story begins with the narrator describing her marvelous summer home she shares with her husband John. While the narrator hopes to enjoy her summer, she begins to explain her...
A tragic culture is a fanciful society that builds up a severe, hopeless, and unfortunate presence for its residents. A popular American creator, Ray Bradbury composed numerous accounts that course around tragic social orders. Inside Bradbury's accounts, expectations on innovation and oversight are regularly shown....
Children in our society are often thought to be clean slates, innocent and free of any grim intentions. The idea of a child killing or feeling any need to kill, is not seen often in a civilized society. However, actions like these were seen in...
A symbol is a literary device that contains several layers of meaning. The symbol, is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. Authors and writers use symbols to connect to the theme or themes of their work. Symbolism can...
A symbol is a literary device that contains several layers of meaning. The symbol is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. In the short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “The Yellow Wall-Paper” both have it significant...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born on 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories and nonfiction. In this essay I am going to deeply investigate how are women represented in a particular way in six of Chimamanda Adichie's short stories and why this...
By definition, a candle is a cylinder of block or wax or tallow with a central wick that is used to produce light as it burns. However, the symbolic definition of a candle is a production of light in darkness; it symbolizes life being produced...
The conflict of interest between the upper-class Sheridan family regarding the death of their neighbour Mr. Scott seems purposely emphasized by Mansfield to shed light on the presence of prejudice to the working class living in modern communities. The social class division became coherent when...
This short story offers a Marxist reading as it employs the concept of social divisions and class constructs paired with the historic setting of society in the Victorian era. 1921 certainly portrays a time when appearance and style were much more important than substance, and...
In The Scarlet Ibis there are multiple witnesses throughout this story to support the narrator's innocence. The death of Doodle was a simple misunderstanding and can be easily defended by many symbols in the story. The witnesses that are called to the trial are Doodle’s...
'The Swimmer' by John Cheever and 'A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, both focus on magic realism in the way that people are never content. 'The Swimmer' is a story of how one man's ego can change his life. The...
The Scarlet Ibis: I chose the dying scarlet ibis from the end of the text. Just like Doodle, the birds' strength has become very little, and though it had overcome flying through a terrible storm it just couldn’t keep going in its weakness and loneliness....
In “The Masque of the Red Death”, Edgar Allan Poe artfully utilizes symbolism and themes of morality and inevitability to highlight the inescapable nature of death. Poe utilizes symbolism in this story through the decor of the abbey and the ebony clock. The rooms of...
An author that exclaims his love for gothic poetry and portrays it through his works is a man by the name of Edgar Allan Poe. His dark and domestic way of writing makes his short stories and poetry mysterious and extremely interesting. He creates an...
In the Old Bible in Titus chapter 1 verse 16 it saids “They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work”, this words utterly emphetazie with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the message in...
When it comes to love we all have an idea of what love should be like and what love really is. In the short story of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” by Raymond Carver, love is discussed in terms of three...
The short story that I have studied is A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri. In this short story, communication and the secrets people keep from one another appear as one of the major themes. Following the loss of the couple’s stillborn baby, Shoba and Shukumar...
Mark Twain was successful in his own story “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was written in November 18th, 1865. This story can be said as a “first step” in his big career, helps him be famous not only in America but also in...
The narrator, in the short story “Greasy Lake” written by TC Boyle, learned a few hard lessons throughout the story. In the beginning of the story they believed they were dangerous characters and that it was “Good to be bad”. The narrator describes a world...
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri is a collection of a variety of short stories that show the life of immigrants of India since the author is an immigrant novelist and writer of the Indian diaspora. In her collection of short stories, one element...
The term symbolism is nothing but a literary element used in literature. It helps the readers to understand a literary work. Symbolism is everywhere. Symbolism exists whenever something is meant to represent other meaning. In Greek mythology phoenix is a bird with long span of...
Since all writers and artists are heavily influenced by the society around them, different eras in history have different literary periods; Modernism is one of those periods. “Modernism is defined as extending from 1880 to 1945, giving “priority to the prewar years” or “postwar years”...
Revenge, vengeance, retribution and malevolent all have one thing in common; the evil desire to inflict harm as retaliation for an injury or insult. When many people think of these words, they visualize a week, sadistic, and cruel person. In this circumstance, the short story...
Edgar Allan Poe is a name that has become synonymous with Gothic literature, and his exceptional talent is brilliantly showcased in "The Cask of Amontillado," a gripping and haunting tale that employs setting, symbolism, and character traits to create an atmosphere of horror and impending...
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses by Irwin Shaw is a short story about the beginning of the end for a couple. It documents the exact moment that both Michael and Frances, the main characters, realise that the marriage and bond they committed to each...
The three women from the short stories “Jury of Her Peers,” “Miss Brill,” and “The Chrysanthemums” are very much alike in many ways yet their stories are so different. The women all start out being distant from their communities, then events happen that change all...
In this day and age, the conversation about mental health is growing. What once was an extreme taboo is now getting more and more light shined upon. For years, those with mental illness lived with the fear of their struggles not being understood by the...
‘Eveline’ is a fiction story wrote by James Joyce which talks about a young Irish girl and her strive to liberate her from the cold and dead life she lives to go live in the beautiful sunny Buenos Aires with the love of her life....
This assignment is on “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie. It makes an analysis of rhetorical devices used in the short story. "Indian Education" is a semi-autobiographical short story written by Sherman Alexie, a Native American writer. The story follows the protagonist, Victor, from his first...
Dubliners, by James Joyce, is an assortment of short stories that all touch on the idea of maturity and coming of age. Joyce’s main idea for all the short stories that have been placed into the novel show a moment where the character has a...
Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges, is a collection of short stories that portrays different plots and themes. Borges is an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He brings the reader into his world of magical realism. In several of...
The secret life of Walter Mitty, composed by James Thurber, fixates on the humorous and interesting fantasies of Walter Mitty a customary man, who lives in Waterbury, Connecticut, with his oppressive, pestering spouse Mrs. Mitty. All through this short story, Mitty is described just like...
“Lamb to the Slaughter” is a short story written by Ronald Dahl. it is about two people who love each other, but the love is one-sided. One day, the man wants to get a divorce from the woman while she is six months pregnant. She...
Mary Maloney is the protagonist of Roald Dahl’s short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter”. She is introduced as a typical middle class housewife who is six months pregnant and is devoted to her husband, Patrick Maloney. She is described as beautiful woman, with soft skin...
Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are usually imaginary or a gothic tale. But however “The Cask of Amontillado” is not imaginary an imaginary gothic tale. The primary purpose of Poe writing this story was due to his literary feud with writers names Thomas Dunn English and...
Do you remember that thing you did, yeah THAT thing, that one you got away with? You get that sick feeling every time you think about it, that feeling is called guilt. You regret doing it so you blame the feeling on something else, but...
In Alice Walker’s short story ‘The Flowers,’ the author depicts the story of a ten-year old girl named Myop growing up in a day. The story begins with Myop's feelings of peace and happiness. Walker's descriptions depict Myop skipping happily exploring the forest behind her...
Winter Dreams, a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, describes the story of a covetous man named Dexter Green. Basically, when he was a young boy at the age of just fourteen years old, he came across a lovely girl, Judy Jones. This encounter...
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas by Reginald McKnight introduces a story about an African American boy named Clinton who goes through racial challenges. The story is set in the 1950s, where racism was still prevalent in the United States. Throughout the story,...
The two stories Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron are similar in the that that there government and rules merge. They have laws that have been passed to confine what people can do. The legislatures keep citizens from considering and associating with one another in positive...
Have you ever heard of Dystopian Literature? Well if you haven't Dystopian literature is a genre of science fiction that tries to make up a horrible world or tries to predict a horrible future that we get to look forward to. In a Dystopian world,...
The Necklace is a short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores the theme of conflict in various dimensions. The story focuses on Madame Loisel, who is a middle-class woman with dreams of living a luxurious lifestyle. However, her aspirations come into conflict with her...
I am analyzing the story called “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot.” It was written by Robert Olen Butler, and first published in the New Yorker on May 22, 1995. It eventually became a part of his book “Tabloid Dreams” that was published by...
An author can change how a reader interprets a piece of writing in a number of ways. They can use gaps, motifs, and symbols to possibly bring the reader's attention to a potentially large message to internalize and seek its meanings. Nevertheless, the understanding of...
By labelling his story “a tale for children,” Gabriel Garcia Marquez leads his readers to consider traits of stories often found in children’s literature, and to contemplate how “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” satisfies, or rather manipulates, these expectant, inadvertent criteria. Perhaps most...
“A & P” is a humorous adventure story in which a young fellow acts in the name of romance and love. One might believe that this sensitive hero has been set free from a job that would lead him nowhere and a restrictive moral code....
Kate Chopin in her short story, Desiree’s Baby, depicts an abandoned mother and child seeking desperately to appease a stone-cold father and an unforgiving society. Upon reading this short story, it is said that Desiree was that of an unknown lineage and was adopted by...
Author Charlotte Gilman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” gives a personal short story about mental health care during her time. This account is personal, as the character in the story has experiences close to what author Gilman had during her period of receiving the ‘resting cure’...
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story published by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892 and has since been described as ‘An American Feminist classic’ (Lanser). It follows a woman’s deterioration at the hands of her husband’s prescription of the ‘rest cure’ which is ultimately detrimental...
Everyone at least has a moment in his or her life of waiting for something that is important, memorable such as a cute gift from a long-distanced friend or a special person like a family member or lover. So does Edie, she puts all out...
For most years, my husband Alan, his brother Sean and I have enjoyed getting into the great outdoors, which includes a lot of hiking and day fishing, specifically for my brother-in-law who considers himself a sort of authority in fly sport fishing. When we camped...
“A Rose for Emily” is an American short story written by William Faulkner, published in 1930. The story is fictional and is set in a southern county of Mississippi. It is set during the reconstruction period, after the civil wars. This short story begins with...
Have you ever felt that your opinions and beliefs opposed the wider set of beliefs held by your society? In the narrative “Shakespeare In The Bush”, Laura Bohannan explores this exact topic -- whether or not the opinions humans hold are universal in nature. Bohannan...
The Analysis of Harold Green In the short story “A Loaf of Bread” by James Alan McPherson, the protagonist Harold Green is faced with a dilemma that jeopardizes his job as a grocer and his reputation. As a grocer, Green owns various grocery stores in...
The human need is to make a commitment towards an ideology, situation, or belief. Whether this commitment is required to be fixated is a new question. In the modern world where society has access to a wide plethora of information, the importance of maintaining a...
In “Black Body” by Teju Cole, Cole writes a summary about his stay in Leukerbad, Switzerland, reflecting off of James Baldwin’s first visit there and the struggles he endured in his most significant piece of writing, “Strangers in a Village” towards his own. In order...
There are several Indian and Islamic stories involving a king and his jester. For e.g.: Haroon-al-Rashid and Buhool, Mahmood of Ghaznar and Talnak, Shah Abbas and Inayat. And on the Indian side, we have King Krishnadeveraya and brahmin Tenali, and Raja Krishna Chandra of Nadiya...
I’m not aging, I like to think I’m growing in value. Isn’t that a better thought? In the story “A&P” and “Barn Burning” both main characters experience significant life changing events that will alter their lives forever changing their perspectives from adolescence to adulthood. Sammy,...
The present paper discusses about the physical and mental analysis of women characters in the select short fictions Haunting and Hunger by Joyce Carol Oates. Oates makes it clear how women are entrapped in their environment. In this collection, the writer points out that women...
Perception and knowledge of the world is gained from the beliefs and experiences of individuals. It is through the culmination of these beliefs and experiences that form identity. To discuss this theme I'll provide a summary of Jon by George Saunders and analyse the protagonist,...
Unlike many short narratives, “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury does not center around human interactions or human society. The readers follow the story of a house that is loaded with artificial intelligence that continues its actions even after the demise of its...
I walk down the vacant city street on a crisp autumn evening, but I am not alone. I am followed by someone. A man tall but skinny, dressed from head to toe in black, with skin as white as ice. I do not know who...
Tim Gunn and a Leaky Shower: Welcome to My Life, Little Guy Y'Quilla R. Jones Ashford University Positive Thinking “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart Is your glass half...
Have you ever experienced a random encounter or a sequence of events and wondered if it all happened for a reason – if there might be a lesson in there somewhere? That is the premise of Rob White’s 2013 collection of autobiographical stories. And Then...
John Muir and William Wordsworth, both wrote about nature, they depicted nature in a path as though nature were the most excellent and puzzling thing in the whole world, in this paper you will find out about their charm towards nature and the animals in...
The Money by Junot Diaz: summary The Money by Junot Diaz summary provides an insightful analysis of the short story's plot and themes. Junot Diaz's short story describes a time in his life in which he and his family were robbed of their belongings. Diaz’s...
It is insane how “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison was her only published short story ever written by her has only received limited attention, despite being the first African American Women to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Reading this story I believed that Morrison tried...
Words can have a very powerful impact and influence towards someone. The words we all exchange daily can have a tremendous influence towards what we feel and do, weather that would be in a negative or positive way. It is also interesting that the words...
In the short story The Warrior and the Captive the characters experiment a change on their identity causes by different events they pass through. He first talks about a warrior who died for a city that he didn’t belong to and them about and Indian...
A theme the writer develops early and then carries throughout is that of the façade, the false front hiding some other reality. This theme of appearance masking truth is signaled very early in the story, initially through the use of the word “pretext. ” Numerous...
Quinton Seitz Character Analysis “The Lost Continent” by Tui T. Sutherland centers on a dragon named Blue, who lives on a continent named Pantala. Blue lives in a tribe named the SilkWings, throughout this story he is faced with many challenges, one of the most...
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