As in the story, "they also knew that everything would be different from then on, that their houses would have wider doors, higher ceilings, and stronger floors" and "they were going to paint their house fronts gay colors to make Esteban's memory eternal and they were going to break their backs digging for springs among the stones and planting flowers on the cliffs". ... The villagers even damage or amputate the body of the drowned giant, "a foul smell enveloped the cadaver, "the undisguisable signature of putrefaction, which had at last driven away the usual...

• Word Count: 1307
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Most of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories are aggressive, dark, bizarre, and written in a incentive style. In The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor, a wine merchant, who tells the story, has acquired a cask of amontillado. Scheming, he had asked Fortunato, whom he has been annoyed with for his slights an...

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

The deer represents the dying soldiers of the front line of war because it is dead just like the soldiers. ... The contrast of the sun/shade and the hills/level train station indicate the sadness felt by the couple. " there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun."" ...

• Word Count: 838
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

We can find this in the following lines: "Then the breeze stirred rather more briskly overhead and the color was flashed into the air above, into the eyes of the men and women" - a fairly beautiful picture, and rather vulgar in its other meaning. ... "It appeared to have a definite goal in front of it, differing in this respect from the singular high stepping angular green insect who attempted to cross in front of it, and waited its antennae trembling as if deliberation, and stepped off as rapidly and strangely in the opposite direction." ...

• Word Count: 1085
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Mallard was held back from much of her ambitions in life: "She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression...." (257). ... Mallard sees her husband walk through the front door, the disappointment and the devastation of loss that she suffers causes her heart to fail. ... The front door opens, however, and her husband walks in. ...

• Word Count: 1010
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In a short story, the reader will be able to have a strong influence from the writer's first and last lines. ... On route to the red room, he comes across what looks like a figure in front of him only to find it was an ornament of a Chinaman on a buhl table. ... Then one is extinguished in front of him while he is looking at it. ...

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

While the short stories A and P and Love in La have two very distinct plot lines and characters, it is through their themes of choice and consequences that a common ground is found between the two. ... Choice and consequence is not apparent in the story until the climax where Sammy decides to quit in front of his boss Lengel. ...

• Word Count: 982
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Later in the story, a man arrives in a squeaking wagon appears in front of the house and converses with Elisa (248). ... Steinbeck introduces this turn in direction of their conversation with the following lines: "What's them plants, ma"am?" ...

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School