My name is Tony and I am a stray dog. Ever since I was born, I wanted to be one of those pampered pet dogs who roams in vehicles with good looking ladies and eats good food and sleeps beside them and does everything as good as their master, but not every dog gets what he wishes for. I am six years o...
I've lived here my entire life, in the wild. My home is the canyon lands of my parents. I trek the steep ravines and eat the sweet grass that finds its home there among the granite rocks and desert cactus. Sometimes I eat the cactus, too. Sometimes I suck on rocks when the rain hasn't come. There's ...
This theme can be found in such short stories as "Report on the Barnhouse Effect," "The Euphio Question," and "Harrison Bergeron." ... Each short story comes from a different angle of the unshackled mind but all result in the same message concerning the mind. It is through a step-by-step examination of the short stories that one can easily see the theme of the unshackled mind. ... The mind in this short story attempts to be free, as seen when two of the characters break the original device. ... (pg 140) In this short story, the minds and body of all people are put to a handicap to attemp...
To understand my story, you must believe that I am not lying or crazy or suffering from some type of long-term amnesia. ... After a half way through of construction, I was short of money. ... " Everybody believed my story except a crime investigator. ... I replied that the story she was claiming was not true at all. ... This was my story of revenge. ...
My name is Amara. I am just recently turned 16 with my twin, Heidi. That day was the start of something extremely horrible. I never thought I would ever hate turning 16, but that was the day Heidi and I were cursed. We ended up haunted. We became pawns in a sick twisted game. I feel that you and the...
The short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is a superb example of local color fiction because it has the following characteristics: a) it is written for popular fiction, b) it contains accurate dialect, c) it shows realistic representations of local customs, dress, mannerisms, and habits of thought, d) it contains sentimentality, e) it contains humor, f) it contains the subject of life, friendship, and love, g) it came from personal experience of the author, and h) it contains eccentric characters. ... It was originally written by Bret Harte as a short story for the Overland Monthly, a pros...
I liked the story for the author presented it simply and did not become poetic or lyrical so I didn't need to think much or read between the lines to understand the story. ... Another reason why I liked the story was because of the Filipino characters. ... In short, I liked the story for I could easily picture the events and characters in my head and I was comfortable with reading the story for it was told without using too much flowery words and the narration of events were clear, solid, and simple. ... For me, the highlighted element in this story is the main character, Tinang. ... Sh...
Of course, these first attempts fell short of being scholarly, probably consisting of a few grunts and snorts at best. ... A ten-story building is erected, and a person who lives in a single-story house in the country sees the new building. To this person the structure may seem quite tall, as he has never seen any building taller than three stories. ... Since the second man usually works on buildings about thirty stories high, he thinks that the building is fairly short. ... As that person views the artwork, the paintings themselves are sensible things, or ideas, actively being per...
This story is a very dark and deep one. ... This story hits home a bit for me. ... I do appreciate several things about this story. ... Tim O'Brien was able to put a face to Vietnam in such a short amount of pages, and words. ... So he is the best person to write this type of story. ...
In the short story "The Rich Brother" by Tobias Wolff, the same situation arises when Pete loans Donald some money. ... As in the story Pete gave some money to Donald to pay for food, gas, and other expenses that may have come along during the trip. ... For example, when we bought another retail store we were about ten thousand dollars short to pay for the store. ...
Many writers draw upon their own memories or first time experiences as a theme when creating poems, dramas, short stories and even essays. ... Soto uses many other literary techniques as well, in order to convey the experience of a young boy's first date to the reader, such as using acute attention to detail and the use of fragmented and run-on sentences, or short sentences for emphasis. ... This poem also tells a story using sequential events that happened along the boys" journey to his girlfriend's house, to the drugstore to buy her a gift and back again. ...
With the children away, she would be free to do whatever it was she pleased without having to stop in order to take care of a scraped knee or read a bedtime story. ... She wanted to be independent and living by herself was the perfect way to do that, and she wanted to rid herself of the house she had been almost prisoner to for a large portion of her short life. ... Several clues in the story lead us to believe that it could not have been. The repeated mentioning of the ocean and its great significance near the beginning of the story lead us to believe that it would serve a greater purpose ...
They are surrounded by notifications, news stories, and profiles of people we know as friends and acquaintances. ... Although the Internet and technology has been around a short time in the overall timeline of the world, we know that it is changing the way we look at the society and ourselves. ... Besides the short term affects the Internet and media can have on adolescent brains, there is also the issue of development and behavior in young adults. ...
The next Theme of this story that I want to talk about is the significance of the novel's title. ... All through the story Salinger used Holden as the catcher on the rye to protect or try to protect the innocents of kids. ... A very important character that is referred to all throgh the story by Holden is Allie. ...
The Grandmother is from the South, yet she is probably one of the most materialistic, hypocritical characters in the story. ... She drones on and on during the car ride, telling stories about her youth that have probably been told so many different ways that she can't remember what really happened in the first place. ... The actions of the other characters in the story are a direct result of the things said and done by the grandmother. ... The grandmother can be, in many ways, considered an antagonist in this story. ...
She uses a story about a woman named Elizabeth O'Donovan. ... These conversations often are quite short, and rather ineffective. ... She previously believed that working the overnight shift was not safe for people because of all the stories she had seen on the news of armed robberies of convenience stores. ... They do not make a story on the news when everything went as expected at the local convenience store the previous night. ...
Poetry is a form of art that is used to put the author's emotions and stories on paper. ... This was a short four line poem that shows what poetry can do that no other form of writing can do; say so much by writing so little. ...
While these things temporarily relieve the effects of stress they usually are short lived or have negative consequences attached to them. ... Flip side of the story, people with high self esteem tend to live happier lives with overall healthier personalities. ...
A Room of Many Thoughts One of the first things to notice about A Room of One's Own is that it is not a typical lecture. It rambles and flows back and forth, in and out. It is more narrative than Logic. It breaks many of the conventions of a formal address. Why does Virginia Woolf choose to...
Now we are toward the end of the story, and Victor still plays the role of God, which brings him madness of the mind. ... With rats and other small animals already in the process of being cloned, it is only a short time before human beings are being cloned. ...
