Listening to the band Coldplay while reading "People Like That Are the Only People Here" gave the story's tragedy a truly relevant soundtrack: "Questions of Science, science and progress Running in circles, Chasing tails, coming back as we are-(Coldplay, The Scientist). The circular swirl of pain, tragedy, and incongruity the parents of a baby diagnosed with cancer felt was passed on to me in such a way that I was speechless and "blink-less" for a good ten minutes. The discourse throughout the short story gave it immediacy and a brooding hysteria. Thoughts and emotion interlaced with speech and exclamations allowed me to not only feel what it was the parents were going through, but experience the situation with the parents. I felt the reaction to seeing "the blood in the NG tube" and found myself saying "Life's a big problem" before seeing it written. I felt trapped and empty as well as tense and worried. I truly identified with the desperation in trying to intellectualize the next tangent they found themselves led toward. The journey from beginning to end and all the things in between flexed and moved like a malignant cancer: "The Mother finds a blood clot in the baby's diaper In the bucket she is being punished: too many baby-sitters too early on- The story itself was a cancer, attacking rationality, emotion, spirit, soul, and leaving a cankerous cauldron of churning, burbling, and bubbling fetid stew. The voice of the story explained everything but let the reader create his own swirl of thoughts and emotions as to the results of each experience. .
True art stimulates emotion and thought in the observer. "People Like That Are the Only People Here" is fine art. Because true art must be shared, I have passed this story on to many of my friends. .
Chekhov wrote, "Dreams," "Anna on the Neck" and "Anyuta;" all being short stories. ... One asset that links the stories is self-actualization. ... When the young man says "Look here, my good girl . . . sit down and listen. ... (Matlaw 23), a person wouldn't have expected him to say it like that, or even say it at all. ... Anton Chekhov was a great short story writer that wrote about the odd occurrences of life. ...
In short, Riddick leaves home and has to go through many trials to survive. ... Riddick then escaped the prison on their only space freighter. ... Here, Riddick kills the Necromonger leader, becoming the new leader; however, he finds that Jack and his other friends are dead (The). ... The only reason that he keeps with his journey is the event of her death. ... I also believe that the Atonement with the Father will happen here. ...
Short stories consist of many aspects. ... Maestro imagines that Rolo will perform in front of people and show them what he has accomplished. The only problem is Rolo does not want to, and he erases his memory of the piano. ... The banker imagines that there is no way the lawyer will last and lawyer imagines what it would be like after he gets that two million dollars. ... The story, Nobody Here but-, by Isaac Asimov, takes place in a scientist's laboratory. ...
Theme in "Good Country People" In the short story, "Good Country People", Flannery O" Connor uses symbolism in names such as Mrs. ... We find this out in this short story. ... When people talked about her attitude, she replied, "If you want me, here I am, LIKE I AM." (131). ... This is suggesting that he has fooled many people like he fooled Hulga. In "Good Country People" Pointer poses as a Bible salesman in this short story. ...
The management presence is not only important to employees; it also looks good to customers that come into the brewery. ... Most of Shorts' customers want to know more about the brewery and hear its story and they definitely get that experience when they go there. ... International Approach Expanding internationally would benefit a craft brewery like Short's. ... They want to continue to make bold, flavorful and extremely creative beer that people would travel out of their way to get ("Short's", 2013). They also strive to continue to be a Michigan only brewery and sup...
Silko's short story "Lullaby" lends itself well to close reading and analysis. ... The short story followed typical dramatic development. ... Here, the short story reached its climax. ... Ayah was also a symbol in the short story. ... At first Ayah, like the Native Americans, was afraid of the white people. ...
This is exemplified in many of Joyce's short stories in Dubliners. ... The short story shows this feeling especially through the Alfred Prufrock-like sense of self pity that the narrator feels. ... The narrator feels a sense of helplessness here, how he knows not a way to confess his "confused adoration.... The short story of "Eveline" portrays a similar sense of helplessness and the oppression of society and how these can lead someone to want to "flee" away from all of it. ... The "spacious days" Gabriel refers to are most likely lost forever, remember...
I STAND HERE IRONING In the short story "I stand here Ironing" the main character Mom and Dorothy from "The Waltz" and "But the One on the Right" are both quite similar and different in each of their strengths. ... Dorothy was still somewhat strong because it still took her some courage to go and talk to the people on each side of her at her table and also to go up and dance with the only man left at the table after everyone else left. ... In "The One on the Right" Dorothy is placed on a table in between two people where the one on the left is a person that she can talk to but the one on t...
It was a thought that changed the way poetry and writing would be viewed from here to eternity. ... The image of this child "who cried when his head, that curled like a lamb's back, was shaved" gives the impression of the sacrificial lamb, sacrificed into a life of hardship, poverty, and early death. ... "They" are the same people who influenced Blake's writing. ... The only characterization is that of the little boy and his disapproval on life and his unhappiness. Though the poem is short it would still do the speaker an un-justice to say his character is simple, especially when it ...
