Short Story Comparative Essay The setting in a short story is a crucial feature which completely initiates in which direction the plot will go, the personality of the characters that will be further developed, and of course, the underlying theme. ... Setting is used in both the short stories "Sunday in the Park," by Bel Kaufman and "The Open Car," by Thomas King as a means of fabricating a larger theme. ... The setting of Bel Kaufman's short story entitled, "Sunday in the Park" is meant to be an enjoyable afternoon at the park, yet because of the ill-mannered father it soon evolves i...

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The "Ones who walk away from Omelas" by Ursula Le Guin is a short story depicting a utopian city where people live happily content, modest and seemingly perfect lives. ... This story is written in a similar way that resembles and also contrasts the short story poem written by Sharon Old, "Summer Solstice." This short poem evokes emotion and imagery and is written with many elements of a full story. ... To rap the audience into the plot of both stories, both authors employed a pared dynamic of imagery and the detailing of time, to give the audience a real sense of connectedn...

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This is evident on the two short stories I have chosen "Chameleon and "About Love". The physical setting of the story is undeniably orchestrated in an old fashion manner in spite of the fact that it is sufficient enough for everyone to relate to this situation. ... Same impression applies on the story "About love" as well. In the previous time, readers of this story would clearly justify this as what the society would call as going with the safer option. ... A short series of characters may relate to a statement in development or dialect, for case seat means seat in En...

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This is exemplified in many of Joyce's short stories in Dubliners. ... The short story shows this feeling especially through the Alfred Prufrock-like sense of self pity that the narrator feels. ... The short story of "Eveline" portrays a similar sense of helplessness and the oppression of society and how these can lead someone to want to "flee" away from all of it. Eveline tells the story of a young girl, beaten and abused by her father and brother. ... The story of Eveline shows how the nature of society can lead someone to nearly "flee" from it all, wanti...

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Question With reference to one or more short stories, analyse how Carey forces the reader to 'hesitate' between two concepts of reality. ... Response The conventions of this paper will analyse the Peter Carey stories in The Collected Stories of Peter Carey, "The Chance" and "Crabs" (Carey, 1995). ... This is evidently depicted in Peter Carey's story The Chance. ... Tzvetan Todorov, a Bulgarian historian and essayist expresses Carey's short stories as; 'the reader is caught between the explicable and the inexplicable and possibilities multiply' (Woodcock, 2003...

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In these two stories, two separately unique young heroes emerge with the hopes for glory. ... When reading the short story "A & P" you begin to think the main character Sammy is a bit of a Looney, but has the reader you can visualize every detail about the three beauties that walk into the A&P shop that evening. ... The story is about how the government has taken all the freedom from the people and made them controllable through something they implant in your brain called a handicap in the year 2081. ... Both short stories that are examples in this essay are themes of heroism. ... In...

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In many of the stories we have read in class, the theme of mental illness has been present. ... Mental illnesses, at the times of these stories being published, were not very well understood and made them fascinating and disturbing to the readers. ... The last paragraph of the story lends more credence to the fact that he is a psychopath in which he tells us "[his] heart grew sick – on account of the dampness of the catacombs." ... Charlotte Gilman actually suffered from depression herself and the treatments used on her are believed to be her inspiration for writing this story. ... Th...

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In this short story, it displays some similarities, and differences between the Spider-Woman and the Old man to show their efficiency, and how the characters explore dualities in human life. Firstly, the author compares the Old Man and the Spider-Women in this short story in many similar ways. ... Secondly, the author contrasts the Old Man and the Spider-Woman in this short story in many different ways. ... " In conclusion, the short story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" portrays the Old Man and the Spider-Woman as having similar and different personalities throughout th...

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He sees the best men of his generation mining coal and pulling rickshaws, he sees Western "civilization" forcing them to work jobs they hate to buy stuff they don't need, he sees, in short, the destruction of an idealized traditional Japanese culture by a very different west. ... As Ryunosuke demonstrates to his audience in the short story "In a Grove" the "precarious balance of illusion and reality" is far more fragile than anyone could readily realize, in fact morality itself rests in its very own "precarious balance of illusion and reality." ...

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In Gary Gildner's short story "Sleepy Time Gal" the narrator had heard the story from his mother and his father so he combines the two perspectives to make his story more complete and interesting by at the same time adding his own point of view. ... The last paragraph of the story were the narrator mentions that they had been listening to the song that Phill had ended up selling was a good way of ending this point of view type of short story. ... If the narrator has a complicated and boring personality it definitely fails to appear in this short story "Sleepy Time Gal". ... The short stor...

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He sold his first short story when he was 21 years old. His early stories were published in pulp magazines, but Bradbury later published stories in such mainstream magazines as the New Yorker, Mademoiselle, and the Saturday Evening Post. His science fiction and fantasy short story collections included "The Martian Chronicles", "The Illustrated Man", and "Dinosaur Tales". ... Bradbury's short film "Icarus Montgolfier Wright" was nominated for an academy awardin 1963. ... Hs work was represented in hundreds of anthologies of poetry, science fiction, short stories, and American literature. ...

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Conflict is often an important part of a short story and this is very true for "The Lesson," by Toni Cade Bambara. There are so many conflicts, big and small, in this short story but there are two that really can be seen as the main conflicts. ... These two conflicts relate to the theme of the story because they link directly to Miss Moore, who is basically the one presenting the theme of the story not only to the children, including Sylvia but also to Bambara's audience. The conflict of Miss Moore versus Sylvia as well as Miss Moore versus the children is an enormous factor in...

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In Angela Carters 'The Bloody Chamber' death appears in most of the short stories, but in different ways both actually and metaphorically. ... Similarly, in "The Snow Child," the count appears to have an unhealthy fascination with death as an act of necrophilia arises at the climax of the short story. ... As the short story progresses, the narrator discovers more and more victims of the Marquis's murders. ... This event of graphic necrophilia is considered the most graphic image in the collection of short stories which explicitly portrays the Count's obsession with death ...

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"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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In "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving, the author excellently expressed the central idea of the short story. The explanation of character and the use of specific information form the story demonstrate how effectively this aspect of short story structure supports the overall idea. Six other criteria plot, central idea, setting, tone, language and narrative viewpoint, explore all support aspects of the central idea in short story writing. The short story presents a single plot structure and a main character that develop the central focus through these seven aspects. Analyzing the specific par...

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Anne Tyler Well-known contemporary novelist and short story writer, Anne Tyler, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1941 to Lloyd, an industrial chemist, and Phyllis Tyler, a social worker. ... By the age of seven Tyler had already begun writing stories. ... In 1965, the couples first daughter, Tezh, was born, followed by Mitra in 1967, prompting the family to move to Baltimore, the place in which Tyler still resides, although now widowed, and where many of her novels and short stories are set, especially Baltimore's Roland Park-the "epitome of upper-middle class waspdom in all its ...

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In the short stories "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," by Ambrose Bierce and "The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson, the authors left their audience in shock and awe. ... The element that helps the plot of the story "The Lottery" become so effective is the author withheld what the lottery really was until later in the story. ... (Jackson 291) Still, the author never revealed what the story is really about until the very last paragraph of the story. ... Usually when people think of a lottery they think of something exciting and positive but in the short story the lotte...

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Explore how your chosen short story uses the elements of narrative to [engage] you as the reader: Narrative elements are importantly employed and developed throughout a text to further engage and develop the ideas and issues behind a text to the reader. The Test by Angelica Gibbs has used such elements of narrative such as setting, characterisation and diction to both emphasis and develop the dominant issues raised within this short story. The main convention behind a short story is its length and as such, the author of such a genre must condense, whilst still presenting a central theme ...

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In this short story, "Hills like White Elephants", Hemingway relies on the use of symbolism throughout the story to describe a very complex issue that has encountered Jig and The American, the main characters in the story. ... The author relies on the symbolism of the title, the setting, and the indecisiveness between the couple to tell his story. First published in 1927, the short-story elaborates on how the couple is traveling through the European country of Spain; Jig unexpectedly finds out she is pregnant and is plagued with the decision to have an abortion. ... Hemingway incorp...

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Henrietta not telling any of her family members about her cancer, and then making the decision that she was too sick and tired to be able to take care of her mentally retarded daughter, and sent her to the mental hospital (I could not imagine keeping something with this much importance away from my ...

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When reviewing the short story "The Most Dangerous Game", by Richard Connell you will find that The most Dangerous Game is an example of commercial fiction. When examining the story this theory can be proved by looking at the physical and social setting. ... This short story is set on a far from civilization island nicknamed "Shiptrap Island." ... The social setting in this story intially is one of upperclass. ... The social setting in this story is one where you can see the presence of good and evil must always be present collectively. ...

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The story of Morgan Leafy is the story of being continuously exploited. ... It is no coincidence that Boyd wrote lots of short stories: The whole novel's punch line could be stripped down to a short story and nothing of the tedious moments would be missing to the average reader. Probably then the story would unfold more of the wit that is hidden in it....

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Without it, misrepresentations of the different outlooks and views are easily made in a story and the underlying meaning may not be observed correctly. In the short story "Feeding the Piranha," Pamela Painter carefully weaves the setting into the mood, characterization, and symbolism of the story without detracting from the quality of her writing. ... The mood in "Feeding the Piranha," starts out with little to no presence, but becomes more prominent as the story continues. The different apartment complexes mentioned in the story create the image of the father being someone who constantly move...

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For most of us, this delibarate isolation is temporary, but for Willa Cather's protagonist in the short story Paul's Case, this seclusion is permanent. ... This tendency to fail to recognize what is true and his narcissist personality disorder are two major factors that have led to the tragic end of Paul's short life. ... That event is stated twice in the story, but we never get details. ... In short, the sum of many narcissic and emotional factors are responsible for Paul's suicide. The protagonist in Willa Cather story is complex. ...

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In the short story, "Eleven"," by Sandra Cisneros, the word of protagonist, Rachel, strengthen the persuasive aspect of the passage more than that of her actions; this is because of the ability of words to elicit sympathy from the readers. ... Rachel's words, not actions, are effective in forming an emotional connection with readers and thus the more important element in the persuasive aspect of this short story. ... Similes like this one are used strategically throughout the passage; they aid in the persuasive element of the short story. ...

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