Carver's characters are ordinary persons with an ordinary job in an ordinary situation. ... The people don't see him as a man, but as an extremely fat person. So there is a difference between the way the people see him and the way he really is. ... Rudy's disdainful view of obese people is illustrated by the story that Rudy tells about his childhood: As if he's been thinking about it, Rudy says, I knew a fat guy once, a couple of fat guys, really fat guys, when I was a kid. ...

• Word Count: 2431
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It shows the people treat the cruel draw ceremony for deciding to kill someone randomly as an ordinary errand and embodies the people are so cold-blooded and insensitive. ... "People were sorry for him, because he had no children and his wife was a scold" (137). ... Summers' name symbolizes the lottery activity is not an ordinary lottery. ... Any public activity can thrive for centuries because it is supported and advocated by people. ... The interpersonal relationships among the whole town people are doomed to be indifference and sorrowful. ...

• Word Count: 2165
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The story is drawn with ordinary images, but it contains a lot of hidden feelings and inner thoughts through the characters' actions. John Oakhurst is a gambler who often wins money in playing cards with people in Poker Flat. ... Normally, people would ask for the reason of leaving the town and wonder who others in their group are. ... Usually, people would shoot at the brain, which is the most important part of the body. ... The less people there are, the higher opportunity to make the provisions last longer. ...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Even though the settings and plots of the two stories are similar, the people in the two stories give completely different responses. ... Therefore, it shows a disagreement between the changes from ordinary to extraordinary in the stories respectively. ... In the stories, the two drowned men are strange-looking creatures to the people and they attracted different kinds of people to take a look on them. ... The drowned man is then accepted and loved by the people with respect. ... In Ballard's story, some new kinds of people turn up, especially the scientific experts and policemen. ...

• Word Count: 1307
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

O'Connor makes a valid point in her writing that some people only find their salvation and redemption at the most unlikely of places and sometimes it can be too late to save them from their fate. ... However, her actions in this situation are not out of the ordinary because anyone with basically a gun to their head would start trying to talk their way out of it as much as possible. ... Some say he isn't polite since he does kill multiple people but if we look back through the story there are several situations that shows he does have respect towards the grandmother. ... In the story...

• Word Count: 1261
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

Owen is a watchmaker's apprentice by trade which is a bit of a contradiction since, "he looked with singular distaste at the stiff and regular processes of ordinary machinery" (Hawthorne.267). ... Owen was afraid at first to reveal his secret because he didn't know if people would have faith. ...

• Word Count: 1481
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Her short stories, "A Good Man is Hard to Find,"" and "Good Country People," "can be helpful tools for those looking for perfect examples of O'Connors unique and brilliant writing style. ... The same type of mistaken objectification takes place in an even clearer manner in the second of O'Connor's works discussed here, "Good Country People ". ... Instead, she depicts the "ordinary " human beings, notwithstanding flaws or deformity (Enjolras 6-8). ... In "Good Country People", the masked truth is reflected distinctively through the reality in the story, its equal counterpart. ...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

As I look into the stands while I am on the field I picture people chanting my name and yelling with full happiness. ... The Smell of this weight room smells like your ordinary basement. ... A lot of people walk and workout in that stadium so it's real friendly. When games aren't happening people gather at that stadium with a group of friends and just hang out. ... More people love being at a turf covered football field with bright lights and with a nice 400 meter track going around it. ...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School