YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Fiction Characterization
Essays 121 - 150
On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...
his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...
ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...
about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...
amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...
know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...
this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
marriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet remarks that she overcome her grief and remarried within a month of his fathers death-...
When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...
Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...
In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...
In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...
In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...
In ten pages this paper considers a student supplied case study that applied short term rather than long term corporate strategies...
In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...
course, plague was known so the deaths were not completely unexpected, but the disease interrupted lives, and no one knew who woul...
In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...
may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...
cost in the short term" versus "production and cost in the long term." The short-term, also know as the short-run, is the period o...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...
the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...
a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...
because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...