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  • Poetry In Open Form
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    LITERATURE I. FICTION A. What fiction is Fiction (from the Latin fiction, "a shaping, a counterfeiting") is a name for stories not entirely factual, but at least partially shaped, made up, imagined. It is true that in some fiction, such as historical novel, a writer draws upon factual information in presenting scenes, events, and characters. But the factual information in a historical novel, unlike that in a history book, is of secondary importance. Fiction as we know it today is considered to b...
  • Barthelme's Book Forty Stories
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    Donald Barthelme Donald Barthelme has been called 'probably the most perversely gifted writer in the U.S. ' As well as ' one of the best, most significant and carefully developing young American writers' (Harte and Riley, 41). He was born April 7, 1931 to Donald and Helen Barthelme in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Barthelme had a wide range of careers during his lifetime. He worked as a newspaper reporter and as a managing editor of Location, and art and literature review (Harte and Riley, 41). Hi...
  • Metaphorical Short Story The Painted Door
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    For a short story to be effective, it must be able to produce high 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 interpretation and examination by the reader. Also, the denouements of short stories frequently remain inconclusive and unfulfilled. Together, these attributes add to the action and intriguing character of this genre of literature. ...
  • Talpa And Yzur
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    There are many fascinating stories in the collection of Contemporary Latin American Short Stories. Pat Mcneese, the editor of this book, has put together great short stories that catch many readers attention and interests. Two stories that caught my eye and that I believe have many themes in common, are Talpa and Yzur. These two stories have many ideas and thoughts, that both authors share. I recognized many similarities between these two stories concerning, success for their their loved one thr...
  • Back On The Story Of Nina
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    Just Breathing Ill-timed encounters with torment and death will always leave one behind as a reflective and thought full individual. "Just Breathing", which was published in 1997 in the book "Sex, Drugs, Rock'n'Roll: Stories to end the century", deals with a woman who feels, that she has changed after a strange meeting with the woman Made. This essay contains an analysis and an interpretation of Nina and the function Madge has in Nina's life. The story begins quite sudden because the reader is p...
  • Outstanding Short Story Writer
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    Research Paper Isaac Bashevis Singer Stephen Eggleston Mrs. Schuss ler English II Eggleston 1 There are many writers in this world, and many of them write short stories. These short stories are to-the-point works of literature that have one thing in common among all of them, themes. Isaac Bashevis Singer was one short story author. In this paper, It will be proven that he was an excellent short story author and that his work is greatly represented in his story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy". Isaac led ...
  • Love In L.A. By Dagoberto Gilb
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    Dagoberto Gilb was born in Los Angeles in 1950. A mix of gritty humor, mundane terror, and economic misfortune distinguishes his short stories. His life has been neither easy nor subdued, and these influences are reflected in his writing style and choice of subject matter. The short story entitled "Love in L.A. ", by Dagoberto Gilb, shows how one can see many reasons in seeing irony and even satire by the story's title and how all is stories combine in someway. Dagoberto Gilb's childhood was spe...
  • Later Published Other Collections Of Short Stories
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    Willa Sibert Cather and His Works Willa Sibert Cather was an early twentieth century writer. 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 house. She was named after an Aunt Will ela who had died; however, she chose to believe that her name was derived from her grandparent's names. She was the first child of Charles Fectigue and Mary Cather. Willa...
  • Titles Of Some Hemingway's Short Stories
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    Analysis of Hemingway's Narrative Technique as a Short- Story Writer For many years, the narrative technique of Hemingway has been under debate. Writers before him had already achieved works that bear the characteristics of the modern short story, and many of their works could stand today, with those of Hemingway and of writers like Faulkner, as representative short stories of modern times. What distinguishes Hemingway both from his predecessors and from his contemporaries, however, is the theor...
  • Guy's Son
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    Krik? Krak! Danticat's Krik? Krak! , are a collection of short stories about Haiti and Haitian-Americans before democracy and the horrible conditions that they lived in. Although it is a mistake to call the stories autobiographical, Krik? Krak! embodies some of Danticat's experiences as a child. While the collection of stories draw on the oral tradition in Haitian society, it is also part of the literature of diaspora, the great, involuntary migration of Africans from their homeland to other par...
  • Nick's Sense Of Manhood
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    Manhood is a reoccurring theme in the short stories of Ernest Hemingway. In these stories we wittiness Nick Adam's viewpoint on what a man should be. Nick's sense of manhood is influenced by Nick, dealing with relationship, interactions with other "men", and the society which he lives in. In the short story "The End of Something", we witness Nick break up with a girl that he loved deeply. We witness Nick depriving himself of the girl, Marjorie, simple because he wants to maintain his sense of ma...
  • Work On My Web Page
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    One Monday morning my mom called me and said Your going to be late for school. I yelled back Good I want to be late now leave me alone. and I went back to bed. She called me again so I got up because I knew I wouldnt hear the end of it if I didnt get up. I rolled out of bed, pulled on my clothes and stumbled down the stairs. The time was 8: 30 and I didnt have time to eat so I brushed my teeth, and hair, and washed my face. I needed a pop to make it through first period so I stopped by the store...
  • Mr Shiflet And Lucynell Sr
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    In Flannery OConnor ss The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Good Country People, and A Good Man Is Hard To Find, she explores the consequences of the combination of hypocrisy, gullibility in social contacts, and the role of being raised at mothers knee. Reared a strict Roman Catholic and writing in the Bible Belt South OConnor encountered those character flaws first hand. The repetitive hypocrisy displayed in these three short stories is portrayed by only the men suggesting that OConnor has certai...
  • Story A Wedding Dress
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    MORLEY CALLAGHAN The following short stories by Morley Callaghan all have the same morals in common. This lesson is realizing what is close to you before you lose it or you surrender yourself respect. Callaghan helps show people that everybody can make mistakes but you have to know when you make them in order to change them. This is evident in the proceeding stories, Getting on in the World, All the Years of Her Life and A Wedding Dress. Callaghan writes short story fable's to teach his readers ...
  • Powerful Symbolism In Her Short Story
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    I have made changes to the paper in red font. Comments for you will be enclosed in. They are not to appear in your final paper. Unchanged text within the may also be removed. Eudora Welty invokes powerful symbolism in her short story "Livvie". She expresses life and death symbolically through her characters and through the settings in which they interact. Welty also gives Solomon a characterization of being a deity - a god that is all knowing and is in control of his world. His strict, dominatin...
  • Children's Books Isbn
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    Fiction Preface The aim of English in Years 7 to 10 is to enable students to use, understand, appreciate, reflect on and enjoy the English language in a variety of texts and to shape meaning in ways that are imaginative, interpretive, critical and powerful. These lists provide teachers with a starting point from which to explore further appropriate literature for students in Years 7 to 10. Books on the lists represent a variety of styles, perspectives and themes. They range across a number of di...
  • Hard To Find For Example
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    O'Connor's short stories, for some people, might be optimistic since her characters are given opportunities to see themselves for what they are. Her characters, then, have a chance to get rid of their flaws, mostly pride and arrogance. Mr. Head, for example, thinks he's smart and superior to others. However, at the end, he learns that he isn't as good as he thought. "I never seen him before". Saying this, Mr. Head loses Nelson's trust. Turning his back on his only kin, he is ashamed and realised...
  • Bierce's Short Stories
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    "The Wickedest Man In San Francisco' Serving as a union soldier in the Civil War, Bierce learned of war's savageness, and how stupid and degrading it was. His writing style can be contributed to his war time experiences. His works are blunt, brutally realistic, and his attacks on others in the San Francisco Examiner, (American Authors 1600-1900 76) were nowhere near politically correct. Bierce's short stories "often hinge on an ironic surprising conclusion' (Contemporary Authors 48), as in one o...
  • Hills Like White Elephants By Ernest Hemingway
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    Analysis Of "Hills Like White Elephants' Essay, Analysis Of "Hills Like White Elephants' "Hills Like White Elephants', by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story published in 1927 that takes place in a train station in Spain with a man and a woman discussing an operation. Most of the story is simply dialogue between the two characters, the American and Jig. This couple is at a critical point in their lives when they must decide whether or not to have an abortion. Certain themes arise from this story ...
  • Sweat Including Bertha
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    Analy zation Of "Sweat' DelvinAnalyzation Of "Sweat' Essay, Research Paper D elvin Ollie Mrs. Dias College Composition M-W-F 11: 00-11: 50? Sweat? The setting of the short story? Sweat? , by Zora Neale Hurston, is vital in order to receive understanding. This short story took place in the 1920-1930?'s. The location of the story was Eaton ville, Florida in Spring. The main character of this story was also its protagonist. Delia, meaning goddess of the hunt, loyal and humble, was a God-fearing wom...

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