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  • How Discrimination Is a Major Theme in the Short Stories

    How Discrimination Is a Major Theme in the Short Stories

    How Discrimination is a Major Theme in the Short Stories. How Discrimination is a Major Theme in the Short Stories. The trait of discrimination is the basis for the stories, Harrison Bergeron, after you my dear Alphonse, and Lottery. Discrimination is when someone is hated or acted upon negatively for the reason of race, sex, or nationality. In the short stories the author's feelings of discrimination are expressed through the characters differently. In these stories

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    Essay Length: 524 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Jack
  • How Discrimination Is a Major Theme in the Short Stories

    How Discrimination Is a Major Theme in the Short Stories

    How Discrimination is a Major Theme in the Short Stories. How Discrimination is a Major Theme in the Short Stories. The trait of discrimination is the basis for the stories, Harrison Bergeron, after you my dear Alphonse, and Lottery. Discrimination is when someone is hated or acted upon negatively for the reason of race, sex, or nationality. In the short stories the author's feelings of discrimination are expressed through the characters differently. In these

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    Essay Length: 524 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Fonta
  • From the Collection of Nineteenth Century Short Stories You Have Studied, Select Three with a Supernatural Theme, and Consider Their Effectiveness Within Their Genre.

    From the Collection of Nineteenth Century Short Stories You Have Studied, Select Three with a Supernatural Theme, and Consider Their Effectiveness Within Their Genre.

    Short stories started to gain popularity after the industrial revolution; as printing became more widespread it was much easier to get a short story published in a newspaper or magazine. The advantage of a short story over a novel is that it manages to hold the readers attention, as the short story tends to be dramatic, has no need for a sub-plot and are without lengthy description. Where novel writing is complicated, has many different

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    Essay Length: 383 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Critical Analysis of "the Necklace" Short Story

    Critical Analysis of "the Necklace" Short Story

    Critical Analysis of "The Necklace" Short Story The short story, The Necklace, by Guy De Maupassant, follows the life of a woman and her husband living in France in the early 1880's. The woman, Mathilde, is a very materialistic person who is never content with anything in her life. Her husband, a lowly clerk in the Ministry of Education, is not a rich man, but he brings home enough to get by. He enjoys the

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    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Tasha
  • Short Story Analysis of "araby" by James Joyce

    Short Story Analysis of "araby" by James Joyce

    Short Story Analysis of "Araby" by James Joyce In James Joyce's short story "Araby," the main character is a young boy who confuses obsession with love. This boy thinks he is in love with a young girl, but all of his thoughts, ideas, and actions show that he is merely obsessed. Throughout this short story, there are many examples that show the boy's obsession for the girl. There is also evidence that shows the boy

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    Submitted: December 8, 2008 By: Mikki
  • John Updike’s Short Story A&p

    John Updike’s Short Story A&p

    Professor Al Osborn, M.A English1302.011 February 9, 2007 A&P. Discuss John Updike’s short story, “A&P” is fictional in a sense that it has a common pattern that leads the reader through a series of events. These events began when three young ladies in bathing suits walk in A&P, and catch the eye of a young man named, Sammy. He seems to favor the chunkier girl of the three that walk in to the store.

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Written Analysis of the Short Story “the Revolt of ‘mother’ ”

    Written Analysis of the Short Story “the Revolt of ‘mother’ ”

    Written analysis of the short story “The Revolt of ‘Mother’ ” Shirlley Padia Lopes This work will treat about the short story “The Revolt of Mother”, written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and it will be based on the feminist criticism. By this criticism, this short story from Freeman is a kind of innovation in literature made by women. Feminist Criticism has been developed with the rising of the feminist movement in sixties, and particularly

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    Essay Length: 1,184 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Differences Between the Birds the Movie and the Birds Short Story

    Differences Between the Birds the Movie and the Birds Short Story

    The Birds The Birds, the movie was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and was based on the short story “The Birds” written by Daphne du Murrier. If you would have read the book and then watched the movie, you would see that very few things are the same. In both the short story and the movie flocks of gulls, robins, crows, and sparrows join each other. This is really weird because different species of birds never

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    Essay Length: 594 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Jon
  • Willa Cather’s Short Story Paul’s Case

    Willa Cather’s Short Story Paul’s Case

    In Willa Cather’s short story Paul’s Case we learn of a young man who is fighting what he fears most: to be as common and plain as his world around him. How others perceive Paul only encourages him to fulfill his dream of escaping his monotonous lifestyle. Paul feels he is drowning in his everyday environment and his only breath of air is his savior: the theater. Paul has very little interest in his

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    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: July
  • Short Story (ap English Midterm) 95

    Short Story (ap English Midterm) 95

    Tara and tom, part of an average family living on the northern coast of California, had a lot of family and friends but not many material things. Sure they were happy but they wanted more. Tara spent most of her day at a local clothing shop working and tom at a drug store just making there monthly bills and there small donation to charity. They barely had time to themselves Although Tara and Tom did

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Analysis of Mr.Carter in John Collier’s Short Story "thus I Refute Beelzy"

    Analysis of Mr.Carter in John Collier’s Short Story "thus I Refute Beelzy"

    David Wan Character Analysis of Mr. Carter In many stories, the protagonist is often described as the hero or the “good guy” of the work. In John Collier’s short story, “Thus I Refute Mr. Beelzy”, this is not exactly the case. Mr. Carter, the “I” in the title, is a cruel, selfish father, who is locked in a struggle with the invisible “Mr. Beelzy” for the love and soul of his son, Small Simon. Mr.

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Women of the Nineteenth Century: Relating Protagonists in Two Short Stories

    Women of the Nineteenth Century: Relating Protagonists in Two Short Stories

    Women of the Nineteenth Century: Relating protagonists in two short stories The short stories, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and A New England Nun by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, both contain analogous regional attitudes resulting in similar outcomes for the protagonists of each story. The archaic 19th century regional standards the authors utilized within the text of these short stories, emphasizes the role of a woman within society as being strictly limited to

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Short Story

    Short Story

    The story opens with the second owner of the monkey's paw, Sergeant Major Morris - who came into possession of it upon the death of its first owner - giving the talisman to Mr. White of Laburnum Villa. It is worth noting that a Laburnum is a poisonous plant, perhaps intended by Jacobs as an omen of death. Heedless of the Sergeant's warnings about the cursed nature of the paw, Mr. White, encouraged by his

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Jon
  • Language in Short Stories

    Language in Short Stories

    Words can be used in numerous ways. Sometimes words are used to create fear in someone and sometimes words can bring a sense of joy to someone. The diction that authors use in their writings provokes the reader’s emotions and becomes more involved with the piece. Some author’s use vivid language while others use simple language to create suspense. Three short story authors, Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and Tomas Rivera, used language to

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Top
  • American Black Literature Study of the Short Story " the Witness"

    American Black Literature Study of the Short Story " the Witness"

    The short story “the witness’ deals with the sheer feral malevolence of a gang of bright young boys who use their gift of manipulation for wicked effect. Their low disposition in life, “all we got is the crumbs, the leftovers, whatever the fat cats don’t want and cannot use” (Petry 1892) is no excuse for the assault of Woodruff and the rape of Nellie. Rape is an unthinkable act of cruelty and injustice as it

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Battle Royal - a Short Story by Ralph Ellison

    Battle Royal - a Short Story by Ralph Ellison

    Chris Faulkner Instructor Carreras Wrt 102 2-24-06 “Battle Royal”, a short story by Ralph Ellison, written in 1952. It is a story about a young black man, who has recently graduated high school. He lives in the south and is invited to give a speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citizens. Where he was told to take part in a battle royal, with nine other black men. After the fight and the

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    Essay Length: 1,262 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Short Story Essay

    Short Story Essay

    According to Edgar Alan Poe, a short story should be like a window into someone else’s life, in other words it doesn’t really matter what happened before and it doesn’t matter what’s going to happen after. The authors of the short stories I have read in class this year, using only that window, have made me feel sorry for the characters and angry towards the resentment the rest of the community shows them because they

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Orge Luis Borges’ Short Story Death and the Compass

    Orge Luis Borges’ Short Story Death and the Compass

    In Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “Death and the Compass”, there are two main characters -Lцnnrot and Scharlach- that are by and large ascribed as two sharply opposing figures. However, if one analyses the story in detail, he would easily see that these characters share a lot of common features in their personality and way of thinking as well as some of their personal background; though one is an detective and the other one is

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    Essay Length: 320 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Short Story "run"

    Short Story "run"

    He doesn't sleep for more than a few hours. He doesn't know why it is, just that he has never been able to let the night take him. The house isn't big enough to hold his thoughts. Everyday it's on his mind. The pain only comes when he tries to rest. He tries filling his time with activities to make himself better. Three a.m. is when he starts running. It's the best time to go

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    Essay Length: 627 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Yan
  • Short Story Murderer

    Short Story Murderer

    Its a short story that literally never ends “I killed my best friend” I started sobbing right there in front of all Brenda’s relatives. I was expecting them to look shocked at the very least. I guess they knew the story, or thought they knew. “Rest in peace Brenda you would never be forgotten” I ended and walked off. I was told not to say �I killed my best friend’ but I had to. Let

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    Essay Length: 2,523 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Mike
  • Short Story

    Short Story

    Unwelcome Passenger The man looked familiar, and immediately I felt my pulse quicken. He wore oil-stained jeans and a torn leather vest, but no shirt. Straight black hair hung nearly to his waist. A snake tattoo circled his forearm. Mid-thirties, I guessed. I didn't realize I was staring so hard until he scowled and muttered, "Do I know you, bud?" I quickly averted my eyes, not wishing for an exchange of words and maybe more.

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    Essay Length: 1,468 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Short Story online

    The Short Story online

    And...there goes Roy. Aidan quirks a brow at his friend's sudden vanishing act. "Wonder what got him riled up, then..." Shrugging, he lightly jabs at Jonquil's back, effectively "slaying" her if she does nothing to stop it. "That's the price ya pay for turnin' ya back on a forest bandit!" Of course, he doesn't notice the prefect, cause he's too busy being a crazy forest bandit and all that. :waves his sword in the air,

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Pet Store Short Story

    Pet Store Short Story

    In the "pet store" or jail there weren't rather any words much morely pictures to explain the things, but here there were words galore. It was the most interesting room I ever seen! Words were everywhere they were educating silly and often amusing. So far reading on the walls I've learned that they call this place a second grade class room and the sweet lady was a teacher and the called her Ms. Lemons. A

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Top
  • To Build a Fire - Anthologized Short Story

    To Build a Fire - Anthologized Short Story

    “To Build a Fire” (1902) is one of London's most redoubtable and frequently anthologized short stories. The initial version of the story appeared in Youth's Companion in 1902 but was considered strictly a children's cautionary tale. A revised version of the tale was published in Century in 1908 and collected in London's volume of short fiction entitled Lost Face in 1910. Both versions of the story concern man's struggle for survival in nature, but the

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Top
  • Short Story

    Short Story

    I looked around the roaring arena, at all the faces gazing back at me, and a painfully large smile spread across my face. At that moment my life felt flawless. I heard our manager yelling from the side of the stage for me to exit the stage. I thought to myself just a little more. I felt so invincible, nothing could ever be so right in my life. I heard the tone change in my

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Mike

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