Essays Tagged: "Short Stories"
Stephen Edwin King - The King Of Terror
ifferent types ofwritings such as movie scripts, nonfiction, autobiographies, children's books, and shortstories. While Stephen King might be best known for his novels The Stand and It, someof his bes ... be best known for his novels The Stand and It, someof his best work that has been published are his short stories such as "The Body" and"Quitters Inc". King's works are so powerful because he uses his ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Poe Comparative Essay
In Edgar Allen Poe's short stories "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" there are many similari ... wo iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally. From one of these depended a short chain, from the other a padlock. Throwing the links about his waist, it was but the work of a ... ontressor was only feeling sick because his conscience was so heavy and guilty.In Edgar Allen Poe's short stories "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" there are many parallel ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe
Use of First person point of view in "Raymond's Run" and "Cathedral"
The authors of "Raymond's Run" and "Cathedral", both use a first person point of view in their short stories. In "Raymond's Run", by Toni Cade Bambara, the first person point of view shows how th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Elements of Gothic Literature - describes the most important element of gothic literature with examples from various canonical texts.
ld be some sort of damsel in distress, threatened by some man. The words chosen in these novels and short stories were very descriptive, creating overwrought emotion and often, feelings of gloom and h ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"Barn Burning" by William Faulkner
Barn Burning: An Endless Circle William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" is the tale of a southern man forced into a role by society. "Barn Burnin ... the move from helping hand to the enemy by burning down barns. Along with many of Faulkner's short stories, "Barn Burning" is set in the imaginary Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha. During th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Comparing Three short stories by James Joyce; Araby, Eveline and A Little Cloud
James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories that offers a brief, but intimate window into the lives of a variety of characters, ma ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
BOOK REVIEW- The Modest Proposal by Janathan Swift
The Modest Proposal by Janathan Swift and Top of the food chain by T. Coraghessan Boyle are short stories written to make the reader realize how humans do absurd things which as a result have ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
A general overview of Maxine Hong Kingston's "the Woman Warrior" done for an english class.
ngston's The Woman Warrior is a book of blending cultures, and woman's rights. It vaguely ties five short stories and anecdotes to these themes. Kingston puts to use, a lot of symbolic figures in the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Willa Sibert Cather
She wrote about the qualities of courage, sensitivity, and perseverance. Most often, her novels and short stories took place in rural townships. She was born sometime in 1873, in her grandmother's hou ... he also taught English in a high school. Willa published 'The Dance at Chevalier's,' and four other short stories under a pen name of Henry Nicklemann. Another major publication for her was in April 1 ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
critical analysis of "Death of an Author" by Roland Barthes
tuck and depressed because his life is not a story as it is boring and repetitive. I have read such short stories with similar titles by authors like Raymond Carver and others. I was surprised when I ... cize Barthes himself. We rarely look at the writers who write in the magazine articles, newspapers, short stories that we read today. we read today magazine articles, newspapers, short stories. We do ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
An Analysis of Various Hawthourne Short Stories. "Rapaccinni's Daughter, " "Young Goodman, " "The Birthmark,""Look up to heaven, and resist the wicked one"
In many of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories, he creates characters with either a malicious or evil feature to relay to the reader ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Madman, personal essay about feelings on horror,
This is a short essay (2.5 printed pages) about my feelings on horror No commentThis is no fantasy. This is no ... ed madmenas my personal mentors sounds sick, but I tend to think as they do. Most ofmy writings are short stories of horror (usually about the length of Poe's'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Masque of t ... first draft of this essay, I startedout writing about writing horror stories and ended up writing a short storyabout a vampire in London. It is safe to say I get ideas out of thin air.When I do captur ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Tools of the trade. Speaks of Geoffrey Chaucer
known as the father ofEnglish poetry. He wrote Canterbury Tales which is a collection of narrative short stories writtenin verse. 'The Pardoners Tale is among the more popular of these varied tales. ... tonous. In anodd twist, after he tells the story he trys to sell others counterfiet relics. In this short story aboutgreed, disrespect and death Chaucer utilizes three important literary tools personi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Life's Not Over Yet. Personal essay which includes "Four generations, by Joyce Maynard", "God is Not a Fish Inspector " by W.D. Valgardson, and "To Set Our House in Order"
mily, and how they influenced the future generations. I have gathered examples from three different short stories and will discuss them in detail regarding the topic I have chosen and focus on the asp ... use of hers. If she didn't think about herself all the time she'd realize a valuable lesson "Life's short so try to have fun while you can, always try to get the most out of it, because before you kno ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Edgar Allan Poe. Includes his poem "The raven"
's tobaccoshop. After some time Poe moved to Boston where he started publishing his small poems and short stories in newspapers. In 1827, Poe's first book 'Tamberlane and other poems' came under the p ... hich gave him respect as a critic. Poe was influenced by the British 18th century's romantic horror short stories. That is why he wrote those. He was also very influenced by Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipli ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
John Steinbeck, A Common Man's Man
said John Steinbeck (Shaw, 10). That may be true, but I think that he wrote many of his novels and short stories based on many of the same views. He often focused on social problems, like the "haves" ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck
Ray Bradbury
n Americaand the canals of Mars. His dreams are not only popular, but durable. His work consists of shortstories, which are not hard to publish, and keep in the public eye. His stories have stayed in ... of the greatest years of my lifebecause I was acting and singing in operettas and writing, my first short stories.'In 1934 his family moved to Los Angeles, where Bradbury has remained. He attended Los ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"The Painted Door" by Sinclair Ross
For a short story to be effective, it must be able to produce high levels of intensity, emotion and drama. ... levels of intensity, emotion and drama. To do this, it must convey a great deal of information in a short space of time. As a result, the short story usually leaves a great deal of its content open to ... deal of its content open to interpretation and examination by the reader. Also, the denouements of short stories frequently remain inconclusive and unfulfilled. Together, these attributes add to the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A Comparison of Contemporary and Romantic Literature
Contemporary literature in the form of a short story consists of a plot, characters, point of view, setting, and theme (2). These elements ca ... ting, and theme (2). These elements can vary a great deal from one story to thenext. An author of a short story also reveals a tone and a mood shown by his or her style of writing. Although romance li ... ough romance literature contains the elements mentioned above, they are very differentthan those in short stories and are somewhat static from one tale to the next. Romance literature is about the adv ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time
, the 'lost generation' that appears to result from Hemingway's novel.Ernest Hemingway uses intense short stories to leave a feeling of awe and wonder in the reader of In Our Time. One begins to becom ... ' can be highly speculated on and can be interpreted in many ways. For instance, in chapter 13, the short story 'My Old Man,' seems to bring about much emotion. This story is told by a man's son(Joe), ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway