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Balance Between Reality And Imagination Ursula Leguin
1,028 wordsA Balance Between Reality And Imagination Ursula LeGuin wrote Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons because she wanted to send out a message. She wants people to use their imaginations without going too far in a world of fantasy. LeGuin also feels that humans should be taking a mature, humane, trusting approach to the truth. Of all the short stories read in the ENG OAO class, LeGuin would appreciate By the waters of Babylon the most. LeGuin would really like the message that Willa Cather has portr...
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Because In Order For The Reader
1,059 wordsBiography and History: Harriet Jacob's The Life of a Slave Girl To be a good writer, you must poses's a careful balance between detachment and association, a delicate waltz where you are not so wrapped up in the events of a story that it alienates the reader, and yet not so far separated from the subject matter that the readers cannot get into it. This is especially the case in an autobiographical narrative. In this case, it is very difficult to detach yourself from the main subject matter, that...
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Mystery And Suspense In Three Short Stories
4,454 wordsHow is mystery and suspense created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the short stories " The Engineers Thumb', 'The Beryl Coronet' and 'Charles Augustus Milverton " In this essay, I will compare and analyse how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creates mystery and suspense in three short stories. In retrospect, mystery and suspense go together. If one of the two is present in a story, so is another. Both of these elements are evident in the three short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I intend to go into the...
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Chekhov's Version The Reader
783 wordsThough the similarities and differences of characterization in Chekhov and Oates's different versions of "The Lady with the Pet Dog" are evident, the purpose only becomes clear for the reader when the two versions are read and compared. The stories have different settings, but the characters in the story remain the same. There is Anna, Dmitry, and their families. Although their families are mentioned, each member remains without any description and therefore they begin to seem almost unimportant...
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Dunning Analysis Of Two Short Stories
626 wordsSantiago Ms. V. Troi lo / BCC/T&R 11-12: 15 ENC 1102/Pines Center Short Stories And Taste Essay What literary elements make one short story superior to another Steven Dunning believes that the superior story should combine a good narrative structure with a deep psychological reality. It is quite obvious that he values psychological reality over a well-written narrative. In this paper I will be summarizing Dunning analysis of two short stories, "Appointment with Love" and "The Chaser" the article...
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Short Story An Albanian Virgin
1,475 wordsALICE MUNRO'S THE ALBANIAN VIRGIN IN OPEN SECRETS EXEMPLIES HER CHARACTERISTIC APPROACH To try to trace Alice Munro's narrative techniques to any particular development in the short story The Albanian Virgin would be difficult. This could be because it is simply written from careful observations as are many of her other short stories. In her short stories, it is as though she tries to transform a common, ordinary world into something that is unsettling and mysterious as was seen in Vandals. Most...
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Soto's Usage Of Imagery
647 wordsBack in 1990, a man named Gary Soto decided to write an autobiography about himself, titled A Summer Life. One of the more interesting portions of the book was when Mr. Soto described a summer day back when he was six years old. On that day, young Gary found out what it felt like to be a true sinner, as he stole an apple pie from the local bakery. Some readers found this as one of the more interesting parts, not because of the plot, but because of the literary devices used, such as detail, image...
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Formal Definition To Peake's Short Story
611 wordsAs we walked among the flowers we began to tremble. He said to her what a wonderful world. Oh my she explained to her husband of fifteen thousand years. And from there on they became universally involved. After reading Mervyn Peake's short story "Same Time, Same Place", it is apparent that the author intended to create a story based around fantasy. Customarily, fantasy is mistaken for stories that include abstract creatures and inconceivable story lines. Under these circumstances one would then ...
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Particularly Interesting Story
404 wordsThe Open Boat is a particularly interesting story because of the great detail that author extends and because of the solitary reflections of the characters in consideration of their demise. The story possesses amazingly vivid description. This attention to detail affords the reader the greatest degree of reading pleasure. Crane paints such glorious images in reader's mind with his eloquence. 'The morning appeared finally, in its splendor, with a sky of pure blue, and the sunlight flamed on the t...
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Desiree's Baby
921 wordsThe Power of Writing In Kate Chopin's short story, "Desiree's Baby", she demonstrates how racism played a major part in people's lives in the 1800's. Kate Chopin is extremely successful in getting her readers to feel disturbed by the events in the story. Through words and images, the reader feels touched by the story, either by relating to it at some points or when confronted with things we frequently decide to ignore in the world: the evil some human beings are capable of possessing. Chopin int...
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Mansfield's Readers
3,037 wordsKatherine Mansfield's Short Stories The introduction of the short story to literature created a whole new field for writers and readers to experiment with and enjoy. Katherine Mansfield was born and raised in New Zealand and then moved to England where she spent a great deal of her life. Mansfield is known as one of the most remarkable writers to come out of New Zealand and England. Katherine Mansfield's "specialization" is the short story. Mansfield wrote many short stories in her lifetime and ...
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Short Story
691 wordsAnton Chekhovs Misery relates his readers to the awful reality of death. Iona, the main character in the story, is a cabdriver who desperately tries to find someone to talk to about his sons death. He is able to meet and talk to different people of different background because of his job but he is not able to communicate about his suffering, so in the end he tells his mare about his sons death instead. Misery is told in the first persons point of view. Iona, being the central character, has flat...
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End Of The Story After Charlie
721 wordsIt is amazing how differently people see the world. People from different walks of life interpret everyday experiences in different ways. This is ever so apparent when discussing the gaps that occur in stories by great authors. In The Yellow Wallpaper, a woman is being "treated" by a doctor (her husband) for a condition he refers to as anxiety. She is placed in a room, apparently one that was previously inhabited by a mental patient, and told to rest. Over the course of a few weeks the woman beg...
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Tension Suspense And Atmosphere To The Story
2,491 wordsHow do the writers of "the Cone", The Red Room" and "The Man with the Twisted Lip, create atmosphere, tension and suspense? In this piece of course work I will be looking at how the writers of three short stories create atmosphere, tension and suspense, through the choice of setting, the role of the narrator, how the other characters are used, how the stories are structured, the use of language, your own response to the stories. I will be looking at "The Cone" and "The Red Room" by H. G Wells, a...
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Uninformed Reader
1,536 wordsAnimal Farm by George Orwell is a great tale of revolt, idealism and ultimately the corruption of power. To the casual, uninformed reader it appears to be a face value story about a group of farm animals who overthrow their farmer with the intention of establishing an ideal society, but it finally results in its descent into a situation much like the one that they were faced with at the beginning of the book. A ten year old is perfectly capable of grasping the morals and characterisation of the ...
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Signalman To His Death
568 wordsThe Signalman 'The Signalman' was written in the early 18th century, by Charles Dickens. This story is set in the Victorian era, where technology and machinery did not play an important role in the livelihood of people, but images and honesty did. 'The Signalman', right from the beginning of the story, engrosses the reader in a world of his own. .".. standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled around its short pole" immediately brings the reader to an imaginative mind where ...
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Mystery Short Stories
1,052 wordsThere are numerous genres of short stories that are read throughout the world. One specific type of short story that continues to intrigue readers' minds is that of mystery. Mysteries are captivating and entertaining stories that make the mind work in a unique and creative way. Plot twists occur throughout, ensuring that the readers' full attention if he or she wants to solve the mystery. Mysteries all contain key elements that are essential in characterizing them as a mystery settings found in ...
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Karr's Family Situation
916 wordsMary Karr's "Texas, 1961" is a brilliant piece of writing that illustrates Karr's troubled childhood. Karr is a great poet and essayist that knows very well how to get reader attention. Her language skills brilliantly illustrate two transitions of her childhood-before and after the arrival of her grandmother. After reading the story, I was emotionally touched by Karr's family circumstance, but my emotion drifted away toward the end of the story due to the detail of grandma's suffering. The actio...
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Whole Mood For The Reader
1,145 wordsAn After Thought of Short Stories? Earth may run red with wars. In the midst of battles, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death? Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) What exactly was Robert Ingersoll thinking when he wrote that? Was he trying to tell us something that we already knew but were to blind to see? Well when I read the quote I immediately thought of two short stories After the Sirens by Hugh Hood, and Here There Be Tygers by Ray Bradbury. When reading these two pieces of ma...
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Akin With The Joy Mrs Mallard
1,375 words"An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge' And " An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge' And "The Story Of An Hour' Perceptions In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' and "The Story of an Hour,' the authors use similar techniques to create different tones, which in turn illicit very distinct reactions from the reader. Both use a third person narrator with a limited omniscient point of view to tell of a brief, yet significant period of time. In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' Bierce uses this method to ...
