His short literary work "The Moon in Its Flight,"" may be defined as a self-reflexive fictional work, in which two parallel stories are narrated through the use of peculiar techniques and devices: one story tells the summer romance between Rebecca and a young boy, who are immersed in a particular socio-historical context, and the other refers to the act of writing a story. ... One particular characteristic of metafiction is that it constantly reminds readers that they are reading fiction. ... In "The Moon in Its Flight"," the narrator tells the story of a couple who falls in love in a New Jer...

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The literature could not place a mental picture of that magnitude, by just reading it, however, the film version gives a giant glass window into the tone of the scene. ... Summers is asked if there is anyone else in his family that should be considered for the drawing, Tessie cries out, "_______________________ _______________________" (Jackson 461, Movie). Had this much feeling and emotion been identified when Tessie says, "I almost forgot what day it was," reading the literature version of the story, one would understand just how important that scene was in the development of Tessie's...

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Guided by the will of knowledge and of making sense, understanding is our basic expectation when reading the short-story. ... After finishing reading, we feel puzzled and frustrated which is due to the sudden ending, in contrast with the extended beginning. ... While reading he objects to having available only the governesses perspective and wonders who pulls the strings there. ... "The Prologue" works as a magic mirror or as a magnifying glass for the further reading. ... The way Douglas had met her is somehow fishy: "I was at Trinity and I found her at home on my coming down the second sum...

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"It's a crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture" (Ordinary People 183). In Judith Guest's novel, Ordinary People, she unravels the truth of a modern family, exposing every crack and secret t...

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"A quick reading of the phrase might mislead the reader into thinking that Mrs. ... The story is about a young mother's mental deterioration, postpartum depression, in which she is advised, based on medical theories that her husband, as a high standing physician, gave to her, "to abstain from any and all physical activity and intellectual stimulation", which included reading, writing or taking care of her new baby ("The Yellow Wallpaper" 277). As a treatment for her "temporary nervous depression", the unnamed protagonist's husband, John, takes her t...

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