Also, some of the sentences seem to be reversed or reworded. ... The author also uses predominantly dashes, mainly because the story is mostly a dialogue. He uses two dashes in a row to give a sentence a break and to add more emphasis to the context. ... Montresor throws the drunk Fortunato into a niche and starts to wall it up with stones and mortar. Around midnight, Montresor is almost done with the wall. ...

• Word Count: 879
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Brandon's Clown by Wallace Armstrong is a short essay on his experience with his first commissioned painting. ... During his drafting period is when his work really started to take form. ... This is like when one can see his writing start to form on paper. When the clusters of thought turn to organized ideas, which turn into sentences and paragraphs. ... He was even skipping class because this was his best work ever. ...

• Word Count: 285
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

The story works very well because of the fact that it was constructed step by step. ... Du Maurier does this well because we can see that the situation gets from bad to worse for Nat. ... He checks all the food supplies in the house but there is not much because shopping day was tomorrow. ... As a form of defense he takes a hoe with him. ... On the way home after sending Jill with Mr. ...

• Word Count: 4405
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

The story works very well because of the fact that it was constructed step by step. ... Du Maurier does this well because we can see that the situation gets from bad to worse for Nat. ... He checks all the food supplies in the house but there is not much because shopping day was tomorrow. ... As a form of defense he takes a hoe with him. ... On the way home after sending Jill with Mr. ...

• Word Count: 4431
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

The boy, who is nameless in this story, goes against his religious beliefs because of his sexual desires. ... " (pg. 87) This sentence relates to the boy's feelings about the girl, that because he was "filled with tears," he never could have seen clearly what he actually thought about the girl. ... " (pg. 87) This is where Joyce uses the religious symbols and connects it with sexual implications. ... As the story continues, the boy finally starts to be aware of his sensual cravings but struggles to negate it because of his religious views. ... " (pg. 87) This sent...

• Word Count: 701
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Jim Wheeler starts to explain what the town must do to achieve justice from Mr. ... Oakhurst and he is helpless to their decision of his sentence. ... They are not able to travel by foot because the weather is against them. ... Oakhurst discusses the sentences of other wrongdoers in the town. ... Oakhurst played a game of poker with Tom Simson and took his money. ...

• Word Count: 918
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The story starts off with Emily's house; Faulkner uses a great amount of details of the house, which clearly relates to Emily and what she stands for. ... This closely parallels with Emily and the town, Emily being a young beautiful lady as described in this sentence "A slender figure in white in the background-, which is equivalent to the house. ... The town did not approve of this at all, that is when they started saying "Poor Emily."" This next sentence shows what the town thinks of Emily when she was with Homer "She carried her head high enough-even when we believed that she was falle...

• Word Count: 978
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The way she relates some of her stories makes the readers feel as if she is credible, because she uses personal examples. ... From the introduction she tells of a friend who died of a disease that is now curable while at the same time starting to develop her central theme. ... Starting out she introduces with a story with which the reader gives sympathy. ... This one last sentence not only confuses the reader but discredits almost the entire essay. ... One problem would be the major structural errors that brought the paper down a lot in the persuasive category because Ms. ...

• Word Count: 1235
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A short story, "The Telltale Heart", was written by Edgar Allan Poe, a strange man with a deranged mind. ... The first sentence of the story creates suspense because the man is nervous and this makes the reader want to know what is causing his nervousness. ... The feeling of guilt is overwhelming the killer because he starts to hear a ringing in his ears and says, "The ringing became more distinct. ... He describes the eye as a pale blue vultures eye with a film over it. ... The death of the old man sounds disgusting because the killer dismembers his body after he kills him. ...

• Word Count: 655
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The second aspect that has a lot to do with the short story's success is the high symbolic value of every little action or object from start to finish. ... This is a very unforgiving challenge because failure basically means you drown. ... The third most important aspect that also has a lot to do with its success is the writing techniques. ... This is a very suspenseful moment because of the clever contrast of short and long sentences, the fact that he is swimming so fast and the effective technique of all, the constant counting. ... I would recommend it to most people who enjoy reading o...

• Word Count: 878
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

As we read this story we realize that Emily's conflicts start as a young girl. ... Readers have this feeling in the very first sentences through the description of Emily's house: "lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps." ... Her conflict lay within her because she did not know when to let go of a person or a situation. Another example of this is when she falls in love with the Yankee Homer Barron and kills him with rat poison and hides his body in her house. ... For example when she started to teach China-painting to the young generat...

• Word Count: 674
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He wrote a newspaper article about his experience on the life boat with the survivors. ... Using this wood we started a fire in the grill and started thawing out the meat on one side of the grill and left the flame on the other. ... My friend being a quite good hunter went out and returned back a few hours later with news he got a doe. ... It started. ... This sentence was a great foreshadowing line because it tells us right away that it was going to be rough for those four men on that boat. ...

• Word Count: 1201
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Each page of the story in a way to keep you flipping and wondering what will happen next from the story's title to its' final sentence. ... When reading this commercial fiction story one can recognize the first sentences as intriguing and questioning. The reader starts to ask him or herself what is on that island and the implication is of something bad or mysterious. ... From the start, our knowledge of Rainsford is very slim. We know that he is a renowned hunter because General Zeroff has read his books. ...

• Word Count: 2328
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Scho was first intimidated by them because of how well they could throw the ball back and forth to each other. ... With the previous sentence, Richard Wilbur is trying to draw more attention to his character Scho. ... Scho then started to sing loudly, "Yo-ho, heave ho" in an exaggerated way. ... Scho could not play with the expertise of the other boys. ... Monk had then started to climb the tree, yelling, "Shut up, shut up, shut up." ...

• Word Count: 1201
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

We associate red with fear and danger. ... The old people who inhabit the place cannot use most of it to live in because they are afraid of the 'red room'. ... Approaching the epiphany, the tension is further highlighted, as the sentences become shorter. ... Then there is a gap in time; tension starts to unwind slowly. ... Around the epiphany of the story, the language relating to the young man's experience is described in very short sentences with a lot of punctuation. ...

• Word Count: 1687
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

If an adult brings this statement up in a conversation with a teenager, he/she will probably agree with you because they don't know any better. ... The last few sentences reveal his real age. ... Employers just want to stop a problem before it starts, but this is no reason for their prejudice. ... This short story starts out with a conversation about women's reactions. ... I gave it simply because I saw you there and loved you. ...

• Word Count: 963
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

If an adult brings this statement up in a conversation with a teenager, he/she will probably agree with you because they don't know any better. ... The last few sentences reveal his real age. ... Employers just want to stop a problem before it starts, but this is no reason for their prejudice. ... This short story starts out with a conversation about women's reactions. ... I gave it simply because I saw you there and loved you. ...

• Word Count: 958
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Union was a very small town with about 700 residents. ... One night he decided to go on one more robbing expedition at a local gas station before ending this hobby and starting a new life. ... " Kyle grabbed the money from the register and started to run out with no problems. ... " He was sentenced to death row in prison. ... As they walked around the prison yard, he talked about what was about to happen because Kyle knew uncertain eternity was waiting next door. ...

• Word Count: 973
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"The Lottery" is told in chronological order, starting with the townspeople gathering in the town square and ending with the winner of the lottery's prize. ... "The Lottery" begins with a description of the setting. ... The plethora of figurative language used in the opening sentences of "The Lottery" also sets the setting to be a nice and inviting place. ... The color black is closely associated with death. ... Delacroix's name is symbolic because it means "of the cross" in French. ...

• Word Count: 1086
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

As the clouds lay on the pavement, and the sun sets on the horizon while the birds start opening their wings to embrace the new day, it is easy to picture Washington Irving sitting at the side of the road with his pen on hand ready to write down what is happening around him. ... Most importantly, Irving's heritage has continued to impact lives, despite the passing of the years, because of his ability to embrace aspects of both the Neoclassic and the Romantic movement in his writings. ... He writes, "Its walls within are stored with the monuments of John's ancestors; and it is snugly ...

• Word Count: 2209
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After finishing reading, we feel puzzled and frustrated which is due to the sudden ending, in contrast with the extended beginning. ... The short-story is opened to widely different interpretations because none of the three narrators within the text is endowed with an omniscient vision. The narrative frame is no longer provided with "a god", which implies that is no longer governed by "the rule". ... Also the idea of Douglas being in love with the author of the manuscript finds its counterpart in the way Miles behaves to the governess. ... The frequency of the verbs "I remember", "I think", ...

• Word Count: 2120
• Approx Pages: 8

After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... Mistry as a writer has enjoyed an exceptional start. ... Is it because Multiculturalism is fashionable?" ... This ceremony receives full attention in Such a Long Journey, which presents all the gruesome details along with the ritualistic. ... I would defend Mistry, because I have been to Bombay a couple of times and find his descriptions on target, just as Anita Desai's were in Bau...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... Mistry as a writer has enjoyed an exceptional start. ... Is it because Multiculturalism is fashionable?" ... This ceremony receives full attention in Such a Long Journey, which presents all the gruesome details along with the ritualistic. ... I would defend Mistry, because I have been to Bombay a couple of times and find his descriptions on target, just as Anita Desai's were in Bau...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate