William Saroyan is an Armenian-American author whose family immigrated America before Saroyan was born from Bitlis‚ Ottoman Empire. He was born in Fresno‚ California and at the age of three‚ his father died. But there’s a strict thing that you can notice in his writings‚ Saroyan is influenced by his father too much. Because of the fact that he decided to become a writer after his mother showed him some of his father’s writings. Saroyan usually writes stories‚ stories of ordinary people
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In the short story Gaston by William Saroyan uses the bug‚ Gaston‚ and the peach to symbolize the girl’s father. In the story there is a girl whose parents are divorced and during the story she is with her dad. Her mom is also so rich and her dad is poor. The girl’s dad buys a kilo of peaches and within the peaches‚ there is a bad peach with a a bug. They continue to have a conversation about Gaston and the girl soon wants a peach with a bug inside of it. The father leaves to go get more peaches
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The Fire ‚ William Saroyan William Saroyan was an American dramatist and author. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in and won the Academy Award for Best Story. He is recognized as "one of the most prominent literary figures of the mid-20th century." Stephen Fry describes Saroyan as "one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century and suggests that he takes his place naturally alongside Hemingway‚ Steinbeck and Faulkner. The heroes of his works were always simple and not very happy
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A. Nemtin‚ A-339 THE FOREIGNER by William Saroyan Text analysis Those who remain under the Saroyan spell can only hope that the world will come around. His work simply seems too extraordinary and universal‚ to be cleared from the shelves... Peter H. King‚ in "Saroyan’s Literary Quarantine"‚ in the Los Angeles Times (26 March 1997) I do not believe in races. William Saroyan. One of the most famous writers in the United States‚ William Saroyan (born August 31‚ 1908 Fresno‚ California‚ U.S.) is best
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“The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse” This short story is a part of a book written by William Saroyan that centers on Aram‚ a nine-year-old boy from the Garoghlanian family. The Garoghlanian family is a tribe of Armenian descent that has immigrated to California. In this tribe they value honesty above all else “most important of all‚ though‚ we were famous four our honesty” (p.160). Aram and his cousin Mourad went on an adventure during a summer season; it emphasized the tribe’s behavior
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The text I’m going to analyze is “Shepherd’s Daughter” by William Saroyan. As an immigrant he lived and died in America being noted several times for his great work seasoned with gentle humor.. He even got awarded(but didn’t accept) the Pulitzer Prize. Features of American and much older Armenian cultures and their interaction have effected his works. The story starts like a piece of autobiography‚ told on behalf of a 1st person singular‚ as the author introduces his grandmother as a women‚ who thinks
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Gaston the Lonely Bug Parents happiness is to have a family‚ and not to be lonely. Not all parents have an easy life‚ full of happiness and joy. There are those families that are happy‚ but there are also families with a broken home. The children of that broken home are the main victims of the struggle between the parents. In this short story “Gaston” by William Saroyan‚ the father is symbolized as the bug Gaston. This story takes place around a table‚ in the fathers apartment in Paris. The characters
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perfect; there’s still a lot people don’t have a happy family as they wish‚ there’s still many broken homes around us and the children is always the victim of the conflict from their parents‚ particularly here is the family in the short story “Gaston” by William Saroyan. Throughout this story‚ the author gives us about the importance of a discipline and an influence of the parents to their children. They both have the responsibility to help their children shaping a good characteristic for themselves‚ to
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Text analysis of the short story Piano by William Saroyan Piano by William Saroyan Text Analysis Saroyan‚ William (1908–1981) was a successful playwright. The eccentric‚ spirited author was born in Fresno‚ California‚ where his Armenian parents were fruit farmers and where he worked at odd jobs before gaining fame as a short‐story writer. He came to playgoers’ attention with My Heart’s in the Highlands but became famous with his much lauded The Time of Your
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Gaston Maspero Gaston Maspero was a French Egyptologist and he was born in Paris on the 23rd of June 1846. He died suddenly in 1916 while attending a meeting of the Académie. Maspero was talented in the subject of history and at the age of 14‚ he started to be interested in hieroglyphic writing. Maspero was originally trained in linguistics but soon began his career in translating hieroglyphics. On the death of his colleague‚ Auguste Mariette‚ Maspero took over the directorship of excavations in
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