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. ... " Also another similarity is that they both share the faith that's handed down to them by twisted human nature of their lives. 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 Ve...

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The short story "Greasy Lake-, written by T. ... A common theme during the story is nature. One of the boys refers to nature twice, in two very different situations. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne also uses a great deal of symbolism in his short story, "Young Goodman Brown."" ... This represents the true character of human nature when met by evil and sin. ...

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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. ... 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 again bringing the story to life. ... This quotation again shows that the death of the girl's human nature does not faze her as she turns into a beast herself. ...

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The plot of the short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" revolves around the character of a winged man who has fallen to earth, but even though the story revolves around this character, the story's true focus is not on the angel, but on the people that get involved around this man. Throughout the story, Marquez gives his opinion about human nature, and how humans are illogical . ... There is no knowledge about gods language just for the simple reason there is no human that had died and come back from dead to state that. ... It also demonstrates the lack of the ability of reasonin...

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Nature's Puppet- "Ethan Frome" Its arguable, Edith Wharton, in Ethan Frome, uses the environment of Starkfield to act as a reflection of the characters souls, most notably Ethan's, but even more so, she uses it to reflect the perpetual failure that comes to be Ethan's life. In order to do this she painstakingly devotes much time in her short novel to the description of the nature and environment that comprises the novel. As the story progresses, chapter by chapter, the ties between the environment and to the representation of the characters in the novel become more apparent. ...

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To define and make a short story successful out of the many that are written, the author often builds a single focus around which the whole short story is concentrated. ... It is only human to have attributes such as greed and within that, survival is a constant. ... Another major theme of this story is that humans are animals. ... Both short stories use their chosen single focus and maintain that focus through the whole story. ... It can also be said that to direct a short story around a single focus has many advantages and goes a long way towards ensuring the success of a good short story....

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In "Rappaccini's Daughter" Hawthorne portrays the theme that when human beings tamper with nature, the results are disastrous. In this short story there is a imagery shown through Beatrice and the poisonous flowers in her fathers garden. ... Beatrice and her sister show imagery in many ways in this short story. ... Love, competition, and death play a big role in this short story. ... When nature is tampered with the outcome can never be good. ...

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In life we as humans would like to believe that there is good in every single person no matter what their past may have been like. ... Good is to be positive or desirable by nature. In the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" there are predicaments that are presented to some of the characters when the act of good can be shown, but they turn out to do the total opposite. ... In this story the colors red, gray, and black showed up a few times as motifs that were in the short story. I would like to believe that these colors had a specific roles to play in the story. ...

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I thought "A Good Man is Hard to Find," a short story by Flannery O"conner, was a delight. ... Also, there was that timeless question of good and evil; forcing readers to look at human nature, disturbing as it may be. ... For this reason, the story is very unique. ... Instead, she's the most manipulative, judgmental person in the story. ... The final point of this story I"d like to commend is the good verses evil factor. ...

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"THE LADY OR THE TIGER" Introduction: The short story "The Lady, or The Tiger" is written by, "Frank R. ... This story was one of the most well liked stories of its time. ... The character sketches, of the characters in this play are not very different in nature compared, to the characters, in "The Lady, or The Tiger". ... Not a different setting as compared to other fiction of similar nature Stockton planned to lull his reader into believing that it is another medieval plot with the same story line. ... It would not be wrong to suggest that the story can be related to a psycho- analytical...

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The text is a short story being told by the character of another text, Jesus. By the nature and commonly known background of this character, this story may be interpreted as having the intention to illustrate a religious teaching about the human character, and as well as God's. ... It doesn't provide a detailed description of main events but rather emphasizes on character reactions and interactions, therefore effectively illustrating various human tendencies in a short text. ... This may be aimed with the intention of making the audience reflect and relate the story to their own live...

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However, these fictional stories, as is the case with allegorical stories, may shed more light on human nature than one can even fathom. ... After he defeats the spider he takes up the ring as the bearer for a short while. ... Allegorically, Kafka is portraying the level to which a human being can be reduced in the modern world. ... In a broader sense allegory and all literature can be seen as possessing both entertainment and truths to human nature. ... We expand on these actions and come to conclusions or not come to conclusions about human nature. ...

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Yet he is also an author who writes with tremendous insight into the dark side of the human mind, and one who speculates with serious consideration about the nature of truth and its relationship to both fact and fiction. ... It is the story of two brothers--one of whom served in Vietnam--who must rely on each other to survive a disastrous skiing trip in the wilds of Minnesota. The factual nature of his first book and the relatively conventional narrative methods of his second give way to a much more imaginative account of Vietnam in Going After Cacciato (1978), the book that launched h...

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The Red Pony The Red Pony is a short novel that consists of four chapters. ... In each story Jody learns an important moral lesson. ... Jody discovers there are still lessons he must learn about the ways of nature: sometimes, through death, comes life. ... He also learned respect for nature and animals from his father. ... I think that is one of the fascinating things about this story: it is a simple story, with an important message. ...

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"Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely"; and this is clearly proved in Orwell's short novel. ... Either way, it tells a good story that tries to prove that human nature and diversity prevent people from being equal and happy. "Animal Farm" tells the tragic story of what happens when the oppressed farm animals rebel, drive out Mr. ... Orwell's brains lies in his presentation of the fear of totalitarian regimes, and his analysis of communism societies shown through simple story-telling. ...

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Margaret Atwood's collection of short "fictional essays ", The Tent and Moral Disorder, became essential texts which inspired the narrative voice of my postmodern narrator. ... The highly conceptual nature of Auster's writing compelled me to research literary theory which digressed into the investigation of post-structuralism and consequently, Jacques Derrida's theory of Deconstruction. ... I aim to relate this theory to human tendencies to omit unfavorable facets of their identity by questioning my protagonist's role as a narrator. ... Development of my own postmodern voic...

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It is through his letters to his sister Margaret Saville, that the story is unravelled. At the beginning of both Volume 1 and the novel, we are introduced to a series of short letters written by Captain Walton. ... Walton hopes, that in embarking on such an expedition, he will help all mankind:- "You cannot contest the inestimable benefit that I shall confer on all mankind" Walton believes, that, by discovering the North Pole, he will be able to provide shorter journey routes for people all over the world. ... Although he is surrounded by seamen and shipworkers, he is Romantic in his d...

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Guided by the will of knowledge and of making sense, understanding is our basic expectation when reading the short-story. ... We have to read the short-story so that we should not miss one single detail (which, actually, is impossible). His interest in details blends very well to his passion for studying the inner mechanics of human psychology. ... The short-story seems a subtle and unconventional ghost story that concentrates on the psychological rather than the actual. ... The short-story stirs the reader by the form in which it was put on paper. ...

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He creates a simple, yet striking, setting for his story through the use of his own special writing format and language techniques throughout the novel. ... This, of course, strikes a chord in the minds of humans. ... He then proceeds to call humans "amphibians- (44). This brings about a comparison to the group of animals that is incapable of standing up for itself and really has no respect among nature. ... This is an ironic metaphor that compares the human race to an insignificant, short-lasting idea or event that has plagued the universe. ...

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Introduction Raymond Carver is said to be one of the most influential American short-story writer and poet in the second half of 20th century, a major force in the revival of the short story in the 1980s (Kennedy, X. ... In this essay, we aim to analyze the main characteristics of short story which can be found and applied in Carver's well-known short story Cathedral. The short story Cathedral was included in Best American Short Stories, 1982. ... A third collection of short stories by Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?... The characters in Carver's short stories strug...

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Wolfe's childhood consisted of him watching many of his family members fail miserably in life, making the best of what they had and it was that which gave him the push he needed to achieve his dream of becoming a writer and tell the stories of which he had witnessed in his own hometown of Ashville, North Carolina. ... In Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe's brother Ben is portrayed as a loner who hides his love for his youngest brother behind a mask of short temperedness and sarcastic denial. ... After Thomas Wolfe wrote Look Homeward Angel, he felt he could not end the story there so...

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Only at the very end of the novel are we given any definite indication of the timeframe the story. ... Even for modern readers, however, who are aware of the work's fictitious nature, Jane's addressing of the reader in such direct sentences as "reader I married him," and even more so in questions such as "You have not quite forgotten little Adele, have you reader," creates the image of Jane as a very real, living narrator. ... There remains, however, some tension and uncertainty in parts of the novel, as to whether the events of the story are being narrated by the experienced, matu...

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The first publication of the short story "Cathedral" was in the March, 1981, issue of Atlantic Monthly. It was selected to appear in "The Best American Short Stories, 1982," and became the title story in the 1983 collection, Cathedral. ... Only the blind man, Robert, seems able to form lasting human connections. ... Like many of the couples in Carver's short stories, he and his wife lived a hand-to-mouth existence, always in fear of some catastrophe that would upset their fragile solvency. ... was chosen for The Best American Short Stories, 1967. ...

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Heart of Darkness In just the opening pages of Heart of Darkness, Conrad's ability as a writer becomes abundantly clear, for the subliminal nature of his writing is constantly sustained. Conrad begins Marlow's journey into the heart of darkness on the Thames, on the yawl, "Nellie" with a short prologue, which contains subtle use of imagery and a brilliant suggestion of the atmosphere that prepares a reader for the prevailing themes of the novel. ... Conrad operates in this manner with deliberate intent, so to prepare the reader for the human savagery and despair that is to follow ...

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Published in 1910, the story of "Howard's End" takes place during a period of great change. The era is now associated with the birth of 'modernism'; a time of artistic and literary progression, as well as social and human transformation. ... By employing the use of an omniscient and often intrusive narrator, Forster commands a narrative technique characteristic of Victorian realism; however, the interjection of free indirect discourse within the narrative shows a desire to move away from tradition, a characteristic we would associate with the emergence of modernism; therefore...

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