In the first short story "What Manner of Woman?" ... In the second short story "Remembering Miss Alberta: One of Alice's Women" the author tells of a special womanist, Miss Alberta. ... The last short story "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, an old woman, Phoenix Jackson, is described. ... In the three short stories the authors describe woman who are more influential in their lives, and more influential in their own temperament, than they might know. The three women described in these stories fit the mold a womanist in everyway. ...

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The Ralph Ellison short story titled Battle Royal, is a great exemplary of this everyday struggle. ... Unlike Battle Royal, the short story Sonny's Blues takes place in the 50's but in the heart of New York city, however it does. In this short work the unnamed narrator (older brother of Sonny) opens the story to us with his own shock to find that his flesh and blood was headline in the paper, but not nearly in the most flattering of ways but instead for being arrested. If you could not already tell the story is focussed around Sonny, younger brother to the narrator. the story goes in...

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In the short story by Thomas Wolfe, there is a sense of prejudice from a long time ago. The story shows the actions and the way black people were treated and how they acted towards that treatment. In the short story "Child by Tiger," there are many different treatments of racial differences such as the treatment of the children, the car wreck, and the actions of the "mob." ... Wolfe wrote the story based on the murders and the mob scene of the past of Asheville. ... The story was based on what Harris had done back in that time. ...

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"Child by Tiger" In the short story by Thomas Wolfe, there is a sense of prejudice from a long time ago. The story shows the actions and the way black people were treated and how they acted towards that treatment. In the short story "Child by Tiger," there are many different treatments of racial differences such as the treatment of the children, the car wreck, and the actions of the "mob." ... Wolfe wrote the story based on the murders and the mob scene of the past of Asheville. ... The story was based on what Harris had done back in that time. ...

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How the North and South are represented in A Rose for Emily In the short story "A Rose for Emily" Faulkner symbolizes the north and south through two individual people. ... Faulkner displays these traits all through the story. ... In the beginning of the story Miss Emily's father passes away. ... Homer Barron represents the north in this story. ... And these are the ways that he did it in the short story A Rose for Emily....

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Flannery O"Connor uses pride in her short stories. ... In this short story, the grandmother is the main character. ... In the end of the story, the entire family is killed. ... May at the end of the story (O"Connor 1440-1456). ... In all of these short stories, a lesson is taught to the arrogant main character. ...

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In the short story "Recitatif", Morrison removes all racial codes from the narrative, for which racial identity is crucial in order, to give out a message that race is not important to become friends. In the novel and the short story, Morrison is able to relate herself to the racial indiscrimination and labels that her and her friends were exposed to as young children. ... The story is set in Lorain, Ohio, the town where Morrison was born in and grew up in. ... " (Morrison 39) In Toni Morrison's short story "Recitatif", Morrison sets up expectations and breaks the...

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Desiree's Downfall and Persecution In Kate Chopin's captivating short story, "Desiree's Baby," she exhibits prejudice and racism in Louisiana during the nineteenth century. The racism in the story is not discussed openly but is prudently mixed in with Armand's appalling character and his evil soul. In this short story, there is no doubt that Armand treats Desiree wrongly as he forsakes his loving wife and infant son, driving them to suicide, by reason that he claims Desiree is black. ... Nevertheless, this story is also one of love: from maternal love, to a wife'...

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You hear stories about how bad racism is and the rich history the South has. ... Throughout most of O'Connor's writing there is a racism factor in each novel or short story. ... As I read on in O'Connor's short stories I came across a short story called "The Barber.... Which political leader was in favor of the Civil Rights Movement and which was not for supporting the movement in this short story. ... " "Judgment Day" is a story about a man named Tanner who moved to New York. ...

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In these three short stories, "Red-Headed Baby" by Langston Hughes, "The Man Who Was Almost A Man" by Richard Wright, and "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison, race affects how the main character sees himself and how others see him. In the short story, "Red-Headed Baby," a white man is treated better than other people. ... " It is a short story about a 17-year-old African American young man who wants to be treated like he is a real man, except others think of him as a slave or underdog. ... His name is not said in the story so most people call him Invi...

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In Ralph Ellison's short story, "Battle Royal", a young man is coming to the realization of what his ailing grandfather was asking of him on his deathbed. ... The story has many symbols throughout that relate to the moral in many different ways. ... The narrator in Ellison's short story suffers much even though he is considered to be one of the brighter young men in the black community. ... The rug is another important symbol in the story. ... Ralph Ellison's short story, "Battle Royal" is very deliberate with its message. ...

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A Worn Path "A Worn Path" is a short story that was written by Eudora Weltey. This story was about a little old black lady named Phoenix Jackson who lived way back in the piney woods with her grandson. ... There are different types of symbolism portrayed in this story, one of which would be phoenix bird symbolism. ... Another type of symbolism portrayed in the story would be Christian symbolism. ... These are some of the forms of symbolism, from Eudora Weltey's story "A Worn Path." ...

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He participated in poetry, drama, and short stories. ... Gaines loved to tell and listen to stories. ... In 1968 he wrote Bloodline of five short stories, one of which The Sky Is Gray became a PBS film. ... The story is based a forbidden romance. ... In 1959 for Comeback which is a short story, won award form National Endowment for the Arts. ...

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American writer of sixteen collections of poetry, four collections of short stories, and four novels (Miller 393). ... He speaks or slavery, rebellion, misery, and freedom in his poems and short stories. ... He got a job, which bored him enough, that he began to write poems and short stories. ... He was entertained as a child with stories of the plantation houses which clearly had something to do with his poetry because he seems to write a lot on the slave days on the plantation houses. It is said that Dunbar played an important ro...

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Later on, his poems, short plays, essays, and short stories appeared in publications such as Crisis Magazine and Opportunity Magazine and other publications. ... Hughes wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen of television and radio scripts, and magazine articles. ...

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As I go on, I will discuss the nature of the short story and how it affected me. ... The various hardships that the narrator must endure, in his quest to deliver his speech, are representative of the many hardships that the blacks went through in their fight for equality The narrator in Ellison's short story suffers much. ... The electrified rug is an important piece in this story. ... The dream that the narrator has at the end of the story is very important as well. ... Ralph Ellison's short story, "Battle Royal" is very significant. ...

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Ralph Ellison's short story, "Battle Royal", is symbolic in a myriad of different ways. ... More specifically the battle royal is emblematic of the "battle" for egalitarianism in America's white society by African Americans in the 1950's; when the story was set and written. ...

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Conflict that contributes to the story is Absalom gets murder charges dropped on him and he gets a girl pregnant. ... Towards the end they almost achieve it with one short. ... This contributes to the story because Absalom is like a son to Kumalo, so this hurt Kumalo very deeply. ...

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At the start of the story, Mrs. ... O'Connor is using violence for its shock value and it becomes the most vivid expression in this short story. ... A strong foreshadowing imagery can be read in this story. ...

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His novels and short stories have been a wake up call for people. ... Although he wrote fictional stories, most of them were based on his own life. One of his best works was a short story entitled, Notes of a Native Son. This story may not be long in page numbers, but its power is limitless. ... This short story is just one of the many reasons why Baldwin is such an influencial autor. ...

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Gaines' Short Story, "Just Like A Tree" "Ernest J. Gaines, in his short story, "Just Like a Tree," does an extraordinary job at familiarizing his readers with each character. ... Gaines approaches the story from many perspectives. Through monologues, he illuminates the feelings of the insiders: those family members and close friends directly effected by the conflict in the story, as well as the feelings of the outsiders: those obliquely effected by the conflict in the story. ... She is an "outside" character, as she is not of the same social class or ethnic group as the other chara...

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In short, they came face to face with reality. ... The story implied that Mrs. ... This story also shows how the views of a woman can change without restrictions. ... The "Story of an Hour" says, "She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. ... In the end, she did get what she wanted all along, which was to live a short life if she was forced to live it with her husband. ...

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Herbie and the Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith This essay will seek to explore the similar experiences the characters faced in the movie, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith" and the text "Herbie" by Archie Wellers short stories, Going home. ... Racism is a serious issue in which both Herbie and Jimmy went through during their short lives. ...

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At the time, the reader begins to raise questions if the story is based on Ellison. Was the story based on his life and struggle he had encountered? ... Why did Ellison choose the title of this story? In the "Emergence of Genius", based on Ellison gives us some background on why he chose to write the story and how he answers it: "Royal Battle is only a short section from a full length novel in which I am attempting to create a character who possesses both the eloquence and the insight into the interconnections between his own personality and the world about him to make a judgem...

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To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Setting) The setting is important in the story because the whole story grows out of the particular back ground. ... Even the farm owners were always short of money. ... Even Jem and Scout reflect this in the way they treat the other "Mocking Bird" in the story, Boo Radley. ... In the end it is Atticus's struggle to overcome the small town stereotypical attitude and their system of segregation which underlies the story. ...

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