John Collier’s “The Chaser” is based on the situational irony of a young man with unreal hope. John Collier creates the short story almost entirely in dialogue between a young man‚ Alan Austen‚ who is head over heels in love and wants to possess his crush to be completely devoted to him‚ and an old man who believes in a life with zero romantic involvement. The situation reflects hidden discontentment that the story may in fact be called cynical. This is made plain by the situation‚ the unnamed old
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something sometimes causes for you to take your distractions off the consequences‚ because you do not see them. These ignorant people will become understanding as they mature‚ and realize that some things in life our not quite as easy as they seem. "The Chaser‚" by John Collier shows how some people who are urging for things such as love‚ are so single minded that they ignore all other consequences and concerns. The bad affects that might occur are neglected and left for the future to make them dwell on
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The Chaser by John Collier provides many meanings in the title that present clues as to what the story may be about. These meanings can vary from a chaser being someone who chases a person that chases after another person. It can also be a drink that is drunk after another different type of drink and it can be defined as a hunter. The word chaser can provide a sense of tone that can set the mood for the entire story. The title of this story was selected for not just one meaning but for multiple meanings
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As two great stories “Appointment with Love” by S. I. Kishor‚ and “The Chaser” by John Collier‚ were love is seeing from two different perceptives. S. I. Kishor’s “Appointment with Love” shows the audience the deep feeling of love‚ and John Collier’s “The Chaser” is based on the situational irony of the unreal hope of youth as opposed to the extreme disillusion of age and experience. “Appointment with Love” and “The Chaser” are two similar stories were love takes a different path. While Kishor story
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While driving over to Chasers‚ Nola hit Ian with a barrage of questions regarding his existence as a vampire and his relationship with Natalia. Clearly‚ her interest in him extended beyond a casual crush. From the moment she first laid eyes on him‚ during the struggle inside Simone’s condo‚ she had decided to delve deeper into the personal life of her newly found hero. Fascinated by his distinct British accent‚ the fact that he was about as handsome as they come and willing to kick butt at the drop
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The Story Alan Austen‚ a young man who is passionately in love with a young woman who is indifferent to him‚ comes to the establishment of a mysterious old man who deals in magic potions. Austen has been told that he can buy a potion that will make the object of his affections fall madly in love with him. The old man shows little interest in the financial profit to be gained from selling Alan a love potion. Instead‚ he devotes most of his sales talk to recommending a potion that he calls a spot remover
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In“The Chaser”‚ a short story by John Collier‚ a theme seen is that people will do absurd things when they are in love. This is shown in the beginning of the story while Alan Austen walks into a spooky building. He enters the apartment and is greeted by an old man on a rocking chair that seems to have been expecting him. First‚ Alan asks “You really sell love potions?” This shows what Alan originally comes to the old man for. It also means he is interested in buying a love potion to possibly give
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Puddles rippled as the rain dropped down. Lights were flickering on and off and traffic was slower than it was supposed to be. Cars were honking and people yelling. Boom! A lightning bolt went‚ scattering the birds sitting on top of the power line. They flew around in circles‚ but they didn’t just fly in circles anywhere they flew right on top of a wide long alleyway. The alleyway was lit up by the uncovered moon‚ drip drop‚ was all you could hear as it hits the ground‚ but if someone were to listen
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“The chaser” was the short story written by “John Collier”. The story was based on the fantasy world of humans in which they talk about the love potion that made someone madly fall in love. In the exposition‚ they talk about the character Alan‚ who went to his neighbourhood to meet someone. He found one of the doors in an old street where the name of that person was written “obscurely” (3). He entered the room and found no furniture inside it instead of “a plain kitchen table‚ a rocking chair and
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Shoshi Bicky November 2014 Ms. Bloch English Comparing “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Chaser” Revised Throughout the short stories “The Chaser” by John Collier and “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs‚ there are similarities‚ like the interference of fate and the concept of consequences that stands out when comparing the two. In “The Chaser‚” Alan Austen comes to the Old Man with hope that he can buy a potion to give his love‚ Diana. Alan intends to give Diana a love potion causing
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