In the story “Departure”, something that evokes mystery is when everyone from the town came to greet George off before he left. “On the station platform, everyone shook the young man’s hand. More than a dozen people waited about...Even Will Henderson... who was lazy...had got out of bed.” (Anderson 7) In other words, George’s departure was so significant to the point that it made the laziest of men move away from his mattress. Something that induces tension is that on the train, he adds up the amount of money he has in secret. “George glanced up and down the car to be sure no one was looking, then he took out his pocketbook and counted his money.” (Anderson 9) That is to say, this story creates tension by making it seem as if someone is spying on George.…
What is the point of any piece of great literature? Or rather, what is great literature? Some would say that accomplished literature is a way of exceptionally telling a story. However, what is the point of storytelling? In many cases, stories are told for entertainment. However, most stories have a moral or theme conveying an important message about life or how to live it. This is the point of great literature, to convey this message beautifully. Some pieces of great literature are The Story-Teller, by Saki, Geraldine Moore the Poet, by Toni Cade Bambara, and Enemy Territory, by William Melvin Kelley. To understand the themes of great literature, you must also understand how to analyze it. The content analyzed in these stories is the setting, plot, and point of view.…
In conclusion, decision making comes in all forms. In these stories there decision making played a key role in their lives. When George Washington decided to resign as president, when the narrator in ‘’The Scarlet Ibis” decide to teach Doodle, and when Jim and Della both sold their most prized possessions to get what the other wanted. In these three stories the main factor was decisions…
The author, Kate Chopin uses marriage to show how powerless women were compared to men during the late eighteen hundreds in her short story entitled, “The Story of An Hour “. At the beginning of the story the main character, Mrs. Louise Mallard has a heart condition. Due to her illness, her sister Josephine and her husband's friend Richards has the hard task to tell Louise that her husband Brently Mallard has died in a train wreck. During this first hour Mrs. Mallard experiences the sorrow of her husband's death and the loneliness she would feel, but also the conflicting and exciting feelings of being able to feel alive and the freedom she will have in the future being alone without her husband.…
There are many different tones, themes, characters, and symbolism in the short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin explains the story of a negative view of marriage by showing the reader with a woman who is overjoyed that her husband has died, also the characters in the story itself goes through multiply changes from fear to depression to finally freedom. The lone character, who goes through the most change be far throughout the entire story is the main character Mrs. Louise Mallard. This transformation doesn’t just help change the character of Louise Mallard, further the themes of the story and solidify the tones that the author are trying to set for the story.…
Sellers, H. “Energy.” The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students. Ed. Leasa Burton. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 69-100. Print.…
Opinion Writing Take A Side Debate Directions: Read the article. Study the facts. Decide what you think. Write an opinion essay. Extremely Dangerous…
The story “A Bag of Oranges” by Spiro Athanas tells about a poor family lived in the rotting slum and the boy in this family became a mature person from a childish kid. Because the boy’s father needs to pay his responsibility to his family and the people who he loved, so his rude behavior and act makes his son hate him for a short time. After the boy notice his family’s financial situation, then he realize it’s not easy be an adult to making life run in the society, and you would lose some important things while you are paying responsibility to your family, so he begin understand his father. When the boy know his father hit by a car, all his emotion spew out and make his act like an adult in the end of the story because he take the responsibility from his father. The author wants to tell us the childish boy becomes a mature boy because the boy understands take care of a family need you pay a lot or got misunderstand. He throws all his childish behavior away and tries to take the responsibility to his family and the people who he loved. Sometimes, it’s not easy to be an adult because you need swallow all tough things with no childish emotion.…
We are reading Great Expectations and our task was to storyboard the opening scene where Pip encounters he convict, Magwitch, for the first time. I am going to analyse 3 of the 8 frames.…
“Novels and stories are renderings of life; they can not only keep us company, but admonish us, point us in new directions, or give us courage to stay a given course.” (Robert Coles). We as humans, all love a good story; whether we are watching a movie, listening to our favorite song, reading a novel or having someone tell us a story, there is always a sense of enjoyment. Stories are all around us and we can trace stories and the act of storytelling back to our early ancestors. "All the individuals of the same species, and the species of the same genus, or even higher, are descended from common parents;" stated by Charles Darwin in Origin of Species, his take on stories was take even though the story may change as humans evolve, they all start with an origin. Looking through the lens of literary Darwinism stories can be a metaphor towards the theory of evolution.…
Mrs. Mallard in the “Story of an Hour” and the girl in the “Hills like White Elephants” are tested by their lives. However, they vary in their function range of responses to their situations. Both stories reveals some major similarities in their lives as well as some dissimilarities in their characters. They both share some characteristics in common like they are helpless and worried. They love their partners but they are not much happy in their lives.…
I believe the the original ending to the short story “Button, Button” creates the best impact on the audience. The ending of this version teaches a lesson about how selfishness and greed can lead to terrible events happening. In the Twilight Zone adaptation of the story, when Norma pushes the button, she receives the money and is told someone she doesn’t know will be given the reprogrammed box. After the suspense was built, the ending was completely uneventful and exactly the offer that was promised with no abnormality or hidden consequence like in the other forms of the story. The movie “The Box,” was least like the original story because it was a test. The ending of killing and sacrificing made the story less relatable because of its complexity…
motives can lead to strikingly different outcomes. This is seen by contrasting the fates and…
How have the authors, Hunter and Dahl, created a sinister tone in their short stories you have studied?…
Blackburn's choice of language is impetrative in positioning the reader to see Button as the Protagonist and Cooke as the antagonist. "The thirteen year old blinked and stammered when he tried to answer the magistrate's questions about why he was wagging school". The words "blinked and stammered" describing buttons actions encourage sympathy and an imagery of innocence. "But now he felt vengeful too. He wanted to spoil things a little for those happy people who didn't suffer like he did", the words "vengeful, and wanted to spoil" associated with Cooke's thoughts, encourage a menacing, and revengeful imagery of Cooke. Blackburn's choice of language also position the reader to feel sympathetic towards Cooke, "Wandering the streets to avoid his fathers belting and abuse at home, it was easy to take things here and there to provide some pleasure in life". The words "belting and abuse" encourage a sympathetic feeling;…