Williams's short story was written in the year 1951, whilst Bessie writes her story in the year 1986. The setting of both the stories are in South Africa, however if looked at carefully you can note that The Dignity of Begging takes place on the streets of Johannesburg whilst the other story takes place in a prison camp in an unmentioned place. The main characters in both the stories show great dignity and hope for a better future. In the Dignity of Begging you can spot this by looking at Nathaniel's (Main Character) dream at the end of the story. ... Both of the authors show a c...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, in the short story "Hills like White Elephants" Ernest Hemingway uses abortion not to represent the liberation of women but their oppression by using an argument between a couple to open our eyes to the exploitation of women, within American Society. Similarly, Russell Banks uses an argument about this same issue to expose the mistreatment of Minorities within society in his short story "Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat". ... When reading a story it is important to decide what issues the author is discussing, in his story Hemingway makes it clear that the only issue ...

• Word Count: 2067
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Flannery O"Connor's "Everything that Rises Must Converge" tells the story of a middle-aged white lady, the descendant of an aristocratic slave-holding family in the deep south, that is on a journey to the YWCA to attend a "reducing class" that was recommended to lower her blood pressure. ... The theme of the story is that of the plague of social bigotry of the people of the South in the time of desegregation. O"Connor suggests to us, not only in the title but, throughout this short story that people often resist to growing away from egoism towards self-awareness and love for all humank...

• Word Count: 806
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bailey, and Mary Beth Norton share a story of reconstruction but all in very different aspects. ... Historians disagree over the story of reconstruction because of their own consideration of racial assumptions. ... By the 20's Woodson shows that negro's were a mistake "They had political equality in Southern States only a few years, and with some exceptions their tenure in Congress was very short" (12). ... Bailey's convincing story taking place in the 60's through the 70's was when things became tragic "Wholesale liberation was probably unavoidable, giv...

• Word Count: 601
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Comet and Aye and Gomorrah are two science fiction short stories that discuss racism and sexuality in post-apocalypses, respectively. ... Additionally, both Du Bois and Delany make use of apocalyptic language and set stories in post-apocalyptic situations; however, their apocalyptic language is presented differently and used for different purposes. ...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The effect of using "I" and "cool" so many times and right next to each other gives the reader a sense of the reader's tone, mainly an air of deserved superiority that may initially seem pompous of the author but provokes the reader into continuing the story in order to ascertain if these claims can be proven true. ... He starts out his fourth paragraph using, "Once upon a time ." only to describe the story of how "niggas" came to be, and how they differ from black people. ... The use of short sentences throughout the whole first paragraph illustrates for the reader an importance with wh...

• Word Count: 1153
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate