This personal experience into the interior of Africa came to provide an outline for a short novella, Heart of Darkness, which he would publish in 1899. ... Marlow is a long-time seaman and as much of the story is told through his narrative we see he is an accustomed story-teller. ... Throughout the whole story we hear actually very little of Kurtz himself speaking, even though before we meet him he is described as a captivating orator. Stories of his strength, charisma, and powerful influence over the natives he encounters are told as Marlow travels upward toward the inner station. ...

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For a short story to be effective, it must be able to produce high levels of intensity, emotion and drama. ... As a result, the short story usually leaves a great deal of its content open to interpretation and examination by the reader and it tends to have some interesting parallels within the story itself. ... Ann and John, two characters from he short story "The Painted Door", do not have a very healthy relationship. ... As a result, the short story usually leaves a great deal of its content open to interpretation and examination by the reader. Also, the denouements of short stories frequ...

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"The Magic Barrel" was written by Bernard Malamud in 1958 as part of a short story collection. ... Sloan discusses how Leo feels about each woman and points out all the intentional short comings of each one. ... The only negative part of Sloan's article was his short and unfinished point about the sexual messages in the story. ... That is the essence of a short story to me, the open ended stories and fable like events. All readers have different interpretations of short stories, and that is the magic that keeps them alive in our minds for decades. ...

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These different characters of Macbeth can relate and contrast with several characters from modern day short stories and poems. Macbeth's guilty conscience can contrast and relate with Robert from the short story "Test" by Theodore Thomas. Macbeth's nature of lying and killing to cover up his guilt can relate with Liam from the short story "Bluffing" by Gail Helgason. ... In the short story "Test" written by Theodore Thomas, the main character is Robert, a very typical teenager. ... In the short story "Bluffing" written by Gail Helgason, one of the main characters are Liam who is crit...

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These issues were not only the influences that led her to write The Yellow Wallpaper, but the story is a mirror image of her life. ... This is one of the major themes that the short story The Yellow Wallpaper is based upon. Kuhns 3 One point that I find very intriguing in the short story is the yellow wallpaper itself and the description of it by the narrator. ... This statement is true in both Gilman's life and it's recreation in the story. ... Here again, Gilman has the uncanny ability to combine aspects of her life with that of the story. ...

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In the short story "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather, the reader is introduced to a strange young man named Paul. ... The story leads up to the events of Paul's suicide, after a brief fling in New York. ... In short, all that Paul wanted was to escape, and in the end he found the ultimate escape in his death. ... One short fling in New York is all he really had. Paul was self centered throughout the story, never stopping to think of anyone else. ...

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"Wait a minute," his captor said. "You"d better shave." Naked, he went into the bathroom. As he shaved his face, his captor's masked head moved into view in the mirror behind him. "Hurry up, now," it said. After wiping his face, he went back into the bedroom where, watched by his tall captor, he put on his usual work clothes, a white shirt, a tie and his suit. ...

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The short story "Blood-Burning Moon", by Jean Toomer, is the final part in a three-part book called Cane. The story takes place in a rural southern setting during a time of strong segregation. ... Throughout the story, Toomer demonstrates racism through imagery. As noted in the title, the moon plays a foremost role in the scene of the story. The story opens and closes with the image of "The full moon in the great door" (Toomer 60) as an evil omen. ...

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This story is effective because it is a modern day parable. This means people can relate to the story and when people relate to the story it means something to them and it stays with them. ... Nonetheless, what is beneficial is discussing these deep-underlying themes of the story. The fact that the story has all these equivocal ideas is one of the main reasons it is a timeless classic. ... Of Mice and Men is a thoughtful, controversial tale and in short, it is a teacher. ...

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Hawthorne concentrated on mastering novels, short stories and children's classics. ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Artist of the Beautiful," the main character Owen Warland struggles with the reality that beauty is an unattainable possession which can only be possessed when one has faith. Owen goes through many emotions throughout the story which reveal what beauty is to him. ... It seems, "only a writer as painfully aware as Hawthorne was of the dangers by which the artist is beset could have been so scrupulously fair in his presentation of the opposing forces in thi...

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Hughes's poems, short plays, essays, and short stories began appearing in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people without personalizing them, so the reader could step in and draw his own conclusions. ... He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio and television scripts and dozens of magazine articles. ....

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What are the particular characteristics of the play which make its story timeless and universal?" ... This story is timeless and universal in that people thought out history have followed and continue to follow charismatic leaders, this is true of politics and religion. ... Whatever the reasons are, these rabble-rousers continue to appear at various times in history and are never short of supporters. ... The major phase of McCarthy's career was mercifully short. ... During her short but relentless reign she managed to send 19 innocent people to their deaths, before running away w...

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In every short story read this semester, not one character loved another and was loved back equally. ... In the short story, "Princess Mary-, Pechorin decides that the princess will be his next conquest. ... After reading all these stories about the vices of mankind, it can be concluded that true love does not exist, at least in Russian literature. ...

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Salinger, when Holden Caulfield tells his story from inside the mental hospital, there is a good chance treatment he is receiving is affecting the way the theme and tone of his story turn out. ... "By 1959 only 12% of admissions to mental illness hospitals were compulsory, and the trend was towards shorter periods of in-patient treatment and towards outpatient treatment. ... Because Holden tells his story from inside a mental hospital, there is a good chance treatment he is receives is a biomedical therapy, a lobotomy or electroshock. ... Why telling his story, Holden often talks about not ...

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By the second of such scenes, the story is in the middle of its development, and the guilt of Arthur Dimmesdale has fully developed. ... The first scaffold scene establishes the root for all further development of the stories central characters. ... In the final scaffold scene, the story comes to a close. ... We well understand at this point in the story that the physician has grown dependent on the satisfaction he gains from Dimmesdale's suffering. ... A short time after the confession, we later learn, Chillingworth's " strength and energy "all his vital and intellectual...

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The Effect of Relationship's on Feelings Towards Others in "The Lady with the Dog- by Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog- is the story of a married man bored by his wife and his relationship with a young woman, who is also married, while on vacation in Yalta. The relationship between the man, Dmitri Gurov, and the young lady, Anna Sergeyevna, is very intriguing when looking at the roles and the development of each character throughout the story. ... Another explanation for Dmitri's feelings may be the social norms at the time which this story was written...

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In both stories there are magic "talismans-, possessions, of which confess upon its owner the fatal power of having all his wishes granted. ... The demonic Lord Henry belongs to the great tempters known from Faust by Goethe, Peter Schlemil's Wonderful Story by Chamisso or The Wild Ass's Skin by Balzac. ... This adoration of the senses came also from Lord Henry and his idea about a "new Hedonism- according to which one should live for the moment because life is extremely short. ... It is the same that Giordano Bruno believed whose name and doctrine is even mentioned in the story in Ch...

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My experience in the field consist of writings by Dante" and Machiavelli, films, plays, lectures, and some short readings. ... The Inferno is more than just a fictional story about someone traveling through the universe. ... The postwar era has seen a succession of short-lived, pro-Western coalition governments; the Communists (now the Democratic Party of the Left), although strong electorally, have been excluded from ministerial positions. ...

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Pearl is the centerpiece of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; a novel which tells the story of her life through the eyes of the people she loved most, her children. ... The next week while Pearl was recovering, Beck came home from a short business trip and after a mild fight with Pearl left. ... Pearl apparently unknowing to her had a short fuse; she would explode at any moment with a fury of anger at her children. ...

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"At last a theology student who's not an idiot" anne about Henrik Lawyer Eagerman is very sarcastic to his sun Henrik. When Eagerman tells Anne that they will be going to the theater he makes several remarks to bother Henrik. One example is After suspecting some alternate intentions on beh...

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Similarly, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, predestination, in the form of foreordained events, dictates the path that the story takes and how the story will end. ... Because of the immense faith he had in God and the tools that God had given him, he was able to change the lives of many other people in his own short life. ... Yet by the end of the final performance, Owen had forever changed the history of The Christmas Story in Gravesend, New Hampshire. ...

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When I interpreted this story, there seemed to be a chain of brainless acts that could lead directly back to Epimetheus. ... The reality of their lives may be just as ordinary as our own, but their idiocy in participating with Jerry Springer, establishes the fact that they might be a few cans short of a six pack, literally and figuratively. ...

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All Quiet on the Western Front - Essay All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel that takes you through the life of a soldier in World War I. Remarque is accurately able to portray the many stresses soldiers go through because he was actually a soldier himself, a...

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DISCUSS "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow" - ECCLESIASTES 1:18 David Malouf's "Fly Away Peter" is the story of one man's loss of innocence, as he confronts the brutality of human nature during the First World War. ... Malouf makes clear that Jim's life was wasted because it was cut short. ...

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Holden does many things to contradict himself throughout his story. ... His dream of being a catcher in the rye is the most symbolic thing in this story. ... I think in the short term Holden has a lot of work to do to get himself into a substantial mental state. ...

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