Her short stories characteristically conclude with horrific fatalities or an individual's emotional ruin. ... Regardless of her illness, she wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories while acquiring success and praise. ... (Galloway) O"Connor's deep acknowledgment of her family's Southern legacy plays a strong role in the attitudes of her short stories. ... Her suffering, which she endured for the length of her career, imposed a particular graveness upon her short stories as she unavoidably passed personal misery to her work. ... Critic Carter Martin writes, "Most of t...

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Discussing how and why the ghost story genre focuses on dysfunctional families. ... The ghosts in the short stories usually have a wicked way to haunt the family home, or the ghost will be a deceased family member from the past. ... There is one part of the short story were Calvin is caught talking to one women about literature. ... In the short story we see evilness, revenge, isolation, jealousy abuse sibling rivalry and negligence. Gaskell had a vast interest in social reform and this short story shows how she was aware of dysfunctional families. ...

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When a person is reading an e-book, a mere swipe of a finger can advance the reader half way through a chapter or even a short book with ease. ... In short, the Federal District Court found in favor of Metallica and ultimately Napster was shut down within 72 hours. ... Books are our link to past history or serve as a way to tell a story all the while keeping our youth, and adults able to read and comprehend which spreads to the quality of society and keeps our education system increasing the rate of literacy not hopelessly declining. ...

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Best known for his short stories flooded with mystery and the macabre, Poe is recognized as one of the foremost masters of horror that United States has ever produced. ... Furthermore, in his review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales, he defends short story as preferable to the novel and states that the ideal short story should be short enough to be read at one sitting in order to preserve this unity of effect or rather impression. ... "2 On that account in Poe's short stories every aspect of the tale contributes to its overall tone, including the motif of madness. ... Therefore th...

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Whilst law is still present in Weller's short stories, a white system of law is forced upon them instead. ... Likewise, Weller portrays similar attributes of indigenous people in his short stories. ... Respect isn't a quality that prominent in Weller's short stories as the author suggests that the engrained respect has been lost. ... Similarly, Weller includes images of nature in his short stories. ... This description of nature ends up foreshadowing the bad events that are going to occur in the short story through the use of pathetic fallacy. ...

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A short story is generally catered to those who wish to experience something in a format that doesn't involve much investment, whether that be time or emotional. ... Dick and the later movie rendition you simply can't ignore the conscious decision to change over two thirds of the film's setting from Chicago, as featured in the short story, to a self-sufficient mining colony on Mars. ... The short story offers a much more subtle exploitation of the people in Interplan, a more futuristic version of a government agency akin to modern day CIA. ... The short story is completely void ...

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I will begin with a short biography on Mr. ... It was in Italy that he fell in love and got married in 1921 and settled down to write stories to support his family and successfully did so. Ernest Hemingway was a very criticized author whether it was good or bad still he managed to overcome it all and write some of the most interesting novels and short stories that still impact literature to this day. ... This is a short sentence that can summarize the many positive criticisms of Ernest Hemingway that was commented by Swedish Academy after he won the Nobel Prize. ... Hemingway's earlier ...

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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a short story set in a small town that practices a violent tradition of human sacrifice every year. ... The message of this short story is that violent traditions are way past time and shouldn't be considered morally correct. ... At first, this short story is very worrying especially when compared to today's world. ... The story shows the extent of the sacrifice of human race to attain success. ... Similar to the townspeople in this short story, the military and police in many communities are always ready and willing to participate in m...

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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a short story in which it could see reflected the influence of the author's life. ... Teresa Towner in her book "The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner" states that Faulkner's great grandfather, called for many people as "the Colonel" had a great influence on Faulkner's imagination and perception of the South, she also states: "in his fiction, subconsciously and on purpose, Faulkner used the materials of his life in very subtle, often tertiary ways" which is something it could be noticed in the short s...

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Therefore, many of his stories reflect his belief to educate through literature. Washington Irving engages his readers in both short stories and sketches and tries to teach a lesson in every story. ... Additionally, Irving's short stories are an example of expressive literature. ... The story narrates the short life of a girl who dies of sorrow as her lover goes away. ... Even more, his short stories employ an imaginative treatment of materials to engage the reader. ...

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In the case of the chosen pieces, short story "William Wilson"" by Edgar Allan Poe and the poem "The Tunnel"" by Mark Strand, both stories slowly draw the reader into an empathy with the main characters. The short story by Poe forces the reader to attempt to find veiled redeeming qualities within the main character, William Wilson. ... Strand, on the other hand, chooses the short verse as a means to transport the reader into the world that he has created for the main characters and one that must be completed within the mind of the reader. ... The theme of both stories is obviously the concept ...

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The battle scenes where the gemstone magic is put on display are nothing short of miraculous, not to slight the close range combat which is exceptional in its own fashion. ... The final battle of the book, when all the forces of the entire series come together on the field of battle is nothing short of spectacular, during that battle I found it nigh impossible to put the book down the action was seamless and engaging to the point obsession. ... The story spreads over a shorter breadth of time than most of the other books of the series, it begins with Aydrian as a boy in the elven valley of And...

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The next main factor is the construction of the story. ... Ignoring certain aspects of a story, or selecting other parts, can have a major effect on the way the story is received. ... It gave me a very sensational view of the incident, and made me think the boy was certain nothing short of a juvenile delinquent. ... One of the most distinct differences between the channels is the "place and space" of the stories, or the position of the stories in relation to the other stories, and the length. ... The GWN story allocated a very short amount of time, going into very little detail or explanations...

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The narrator of the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" moves to the countryside for relaxation to cure a bout of "temporary nervous depression" (Gilman, 302). ... This opens the telling of the story to a variety of contradictions that may both alienate the reader from the text and establish a level of honesty in the telling of the story. ... As the story comes to a close, the style of narrative becomes a very vital element of the story. ... The narrator not only struggles against the authority of her husband in the story but also against gender roles and superiority complex...

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Lanval is a short romantic narrative, written by Marie de France that tells the love story between a knight (Lanval) who is on trial for slandering the Queen, and his beautiful mistress. Throughout the story, the knight Lanval and his mistress have an extravagant affair, one which must be kept a secret in order for it to continue. ... I shall tell you the long and the short of it: you would lose me forever if this love were to become known. ... Obviously, the overall views of women in each story differ from the other. ... Nevertheless, in both stories, women were important characters and wer...

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However, the one story that is considered her artistic masterpiece greatly deviates from her typical fiction. ... The story takes the form of a journal of the main character. ... Gilman has suffered an extreme mental depression as the result of psychiatric treatments, prior to writing this short story. ... The wall between the reality and the fantastic world slowly becomes transparent; the reader is allowed short glimpses inside the world beyond reality, when the humanoid face in the wallpaper seems to move. As Jane's attention is more and more devoted to the wallpaper's peculiar cha...

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The sound of excitement echoed through the empty hollow house, with a wonderful zeal of tired hope, at last we had found a place to settle down and call home. Moving four times in less than two years, with an energetic, hormonal teenage son and a toddler that refused to stay still for a second, was definitely a task tying to keep under control, alongside of dealing with the rigorous problems of staying on top of things. Settling in the new home and arranging things in a orderly manner that would suit everyone's purpose was accomplished in no time with the help of everyone, leaving extra t...

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Langston Hughes, a man of many things Langston Hughes is a standout amongst the most surely understood African American artist and short story authors in our nation today. ... Through his poems and short story composing, Langston Hughes had the capacity to fuse interesting thoughts, as well as social issues essential to him, individual family matters, African American way of life, and even types of music. ... " As evidence in short stories like, "The Little Virgin". ... The story closes with "The Little Virgin" ridiculously droning again and again, "He oughtn't to hit a lad...

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Edgar Allan Poe was known to the world for his horrific, jaw dropping short stories and poems and also for being a literary genius of his time due to the unfamiliar writing style he presented. ... Arthur Conan Doyle says "Each [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has developed, where the detective story was until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?" Dupin was a fictional French Detective initially appearing in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", which was considered to be the first detective fiction story. ... In order to create the h...

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Walker's short story raises questions about how identity, tradition and ideology are connected to each other and provides her own personal answer to it. ... The short story shows with humor, but little traceable compassion from the writer's part, how blind Dee's fixation with trying to claim her heritage makes her towards seeing the truth of the African American experience and how she only accepts what she has read about it. ... Cash argues that the real history, the real story of quilting is about kinship across generations between African American women as well as mutual coope...

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Finally, two other themes which are central to the story it's ending are luck and fate. ... Love is firstly portrayed as fickle and misleading, in the story of Stanley's great -great grandfather Elya, then as passionate and binding, in the story of Kate Barlow and Sam. ... Finally, race is referred to chiefly in the aside story of Kate Barlow and Sam. ... However, the short chapters, do not retract meaning from the prose, but linguistically create an epigrammatic style of deliverance. ... Not being a short book, the style encourages adult readers to persist in reading, the myste...

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Finally, two other themes which are central to the story it's ending are luck and fate. ... Love is firstly portrayed as fickle and misleading, in the story of Stanley's great -great grandfather Elya, then as passionate and binding, in the story of Kate Barlow and Sam. ... Finally, race is referred to chiefly in the aside story of Kate Barlow and Sam. ... However, the short chapters, do not retract meaning from the prose, but linguistically create an epigrammatic style of deliverance. ... Not being a short book, the style encourages adult readers to persist in reading, the myste...

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In her short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... In her short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... This is definitely a significant turning point in the story, predominantly for Connie. ... In the story, Arnold periodically utilizes Connie's love of music against her. ... Simultaneously, there are many occurrences in the story where Connie alludes to her familiar world. ...

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Hammett did not place his characters' crime stories within a rural setting, as was typical of earlier crime fiction, but in a sinister and forbidding urban environment. ... The story is realistic regarding the description of violence and language employed, but it also has an obvious allegorical subtext. ... Although, receiving a story from one source often causes a sense of unreliability and ambiguity with Hammett's audience and characters. ... Red Harvest can almost be read as a laconic fever dream with its short chapters and shorter sentences. ... Detective fiction is an inherently...

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The television series Band of Brothers is the story of Easy Company of the US Army Airborne Paratrooper Division and their mission in WW II France during Operation Overload. ... Also, men in the 1940s were shorter, on average, than men today. ... It is arguable that realism has a lot to do with narrative - how one tells a story, or rather how one uses the medium of form in order to cause people to construct a story in their head. ... Story tellers don't want you to realise that they are telling a story, and really its just a collection of devices for making up the story, then it's a ...

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