It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". ... Hemingway's style appealed to the newspaper writer because it was the same type of writing he was used to using - short, sharp and functional. ... (Hemingway, Short 192) Kathleen Morgan tells it plainly: "Hemingway ruthlessly pares unnecessary words from his sentences...Hemingway avoids the lengthy simile...Hemingway's working vocabulary is colloquial and economical...Hemingway limits himself for the most part to words that are simple, coll...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While the content and structure vary, the overlying concept of modernism is always present in these writers' stories. ... Therefore, there are circumstances when a writer's personal experience can influence the story told in their novel, with changing the narrative and characters to transform a personal experiences into a realistic fictional story. Stephen Crane is a prime example of this approach in his short story "The Open Boat". This story was inspired from his personal experience of his survival of in a shipwreck tragedy he experienced while he was traveling for w...

• Word Count: 3767
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I won second place with my first story, Little Bear Plays Tag. ... In these stories, in their awards, I found my passion, though at nine, it only flickered. ... In seventh grade, I discovered a marvelous new genre of literature: the short story. In the short story, I found again that pilot light that had not burned in me since my last award. I have won no awards with my short stories, despite a few efforts to gain recognition, but I have found, in recent years, that I need no bronze-plated medal or cardstock certificate to tell me I write well. ...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The inscription on the award was "for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America." ... His resume now includes several books: "All Over But the Shoutin" (1997), "Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg" (2000), "Ava's Man" (2001), "I Am A Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story" (2003), "The Prince of Frogtown" (2008), and "The Most They Ever Had" (2009). ... Rather than memoirs, Bragg refers to this as his mother's story, although he is definitely the narrator. ... I won't embellish the truth, but I will tell it in a way that engages the reader and p...

• Word Count: 4108
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School