"The Bike" Choose a short story in which a technique (e.g symbolism) is used by the author and is ,in your view ,vital to the success of the text. ... "The Bike" is a short story written by Fred Urquhart set in Scotland between the Russian revolution in 1917 and the general strike in 1926. ... The final use of symbolism in the short story is at the end when Annie is crying herself to sleep, "she knew something more than her bike had been broken" this is symbolic of Annies broken heart and also her broken relationship with Charlie. ... The writer empl...

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The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm" (Kinsella 484). ... Crane is a well noted realist author, short story writer, and poet. He wrote many short stories devoted to the Civil War, as he identified with the "sorrowful tones of the soldiers and their families" (Kinsella 485). ... " It was narrated by a soldier's loved one and expressed the untold story of the Civil War, the people waiting back home for their soldiers to come home. ... Viewed as a reaction to romanticism, literary realism is written from an objective pe...

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Greatness came with a strong nation and thousands of poems and stories that shaped our nation. ... Poe was the master of criticism - he developed his own theory on the mechanics of composition (short story and poetry), he confronted the dark side of human behavior, and what scares humans to insanity. ... (The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe) As a short-story writer, Poe was a fascinating man of imagination. ... He was the first author in American literature to make the neurotic, the heroic figure, the protagonist, in his stories. ...

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It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". ... Hemingway's style appealed to the newspaper writer because it was the same type of writing he was used to using - short, sharp and functional. ... (Hemingway, Short 192) Kathleen Morgan tells it plainly: "Hemingway ruthlessly pares unnecessary words from his sentences...Hemingway avoids the lengthy simile...Hemingway's working vocabulary is colloquial and economical...Hemingway limits himself for the most part to words that are simple, coll...

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On The Antler, by Annie Proulx is an excellent short story that deals with the issue of revenge, clearly through the story of the two main characters. ... In my opinion characterisation played a large part in this story and ultimately the resulting theme. The writer chose to start the story with a quite extensive build-up of the stories two main characters, Hawkheel and Strong, which I felt then set the picture for the rest of the story. ... The writer, in my opinion, made highly effective use of language throughout the stories main theme of revenge. ... These antics were present to the reader...

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While the content and structure vary, the overlying concept of modernism is always present in these writers' stories. ... Therefore, there are circumstances when a writer's personal experience can influence the story told in their novel, with changing the narrative and characters to transform a personal experiences into a realistic fictional story. Stephen Crane is a prime example of this approach in his short story "The Open Boat". This story was inspired from his personal experience of his survival of in a shipwreck tragedy he experienced while he was traveling for w...

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In Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby," there is a motif of the power of communication, or lack thereof. Although the narrator is the protagonist of this story, the man he hires to be his scrivener, Bartleby becomes the most important example of the effect communication can have. At many points in the story, Bartleby's communication skills are proven to be odd. ... It is also implied at the end of the story that Bartleby died. ... As the story progresses, however, it becomes clear that this lack of communication or understanding prevents him from living a normal life. ...

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Literature, throughout history, has recounted historical and cultural aspects of a society. Ireland has a rich artistic background. It ranges from traditional art of song, music, dance and pictures to poetry, short stories, myths, and art of storytelling. Different authors including Ciaran Carson...

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The most well-known writer of this time was Mark Twain, complimented for one of the most famous short stories in American literature, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. ...

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Rafferty is capable of seducing the reader with his descriptions of the story: "A fascinating creature-a monster of mythic proportions, bellowing and thrashing and belching fire right to the end" (131) or again in the passage: "And his gestures have a kind of savage abruptness, an aura of impatience that charges every moment with the threat of brutality. ... This keeps the reader focused on the text and provides realism, enabling us to have a first hand experience and be direct witnesses of the story in order to make our own conclusions about it. ... Rafferty is also a master ...

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