I choose the poem: "from The Last Days of William Short." This, in my opinion is a moving work that casts the thoughts and feelings of a dying man. The poem makes me realize that there is a lot of pain, suffering and mixed thoughts when death approaches. This experience is strange to me, so I cannot...

Literary analysis of Letters from the Earth with the "Secret Sharer". The short story of Mark Twain's Letters from the Earth, while not a short story per se, is worth analyzing due to its rich content in which its theme radiates throughout the story. The short story The "Sec...

Moral Theories Philosophy has for thousands of years attempted to tell us how to live morally. In this attempt there have been two major types of theories, skeptical and non-skeptical. To generalize skeptical theories conclude that ultimately we cannot compose a logical moral theory that we can a...

Soldier's Home For us, to be able to understand the short story "Soldier's Home" must learn a little of Ernest Hemingway's' background. He graduated from high school in 1917, and he volunteered as an ambulance driver during World War 1 who was seriously injured. His e...

Absent Section one Absent is an English short story from 1990, written by Tui De Hann. The story unfolds in the capital of England, London, more specifically in the slums because we know that the individuals whom this short story revolves around are poor: "She hadn't usually ha...

John D. MacDonald's short story "End of the Tiger" tells the tale of how a goose affected the life of one family. The author describes Gretchen, the goose in the story, in a positive way. By using various methods of characterization, John D. MacDonald is able to portray Gretchen as an innocent and f...

Anger is only one letter short of danger, yet it varies from angel by only one letter. Anger causes a great deal of harm. The question still remains, "Is human nature inherently violent?" Many arguments have been made to both support and invalidate this theory. As humans, we cannot escape the leg...

"Cathedral" While living for only fifty years, the American short-story writer, Raymond Carver (1938-1988) is well known for his short stories and poems. "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" (1976), "When We Talk About Love" (1981), "Cathedral" (1983)...

Analysis of The White HeronThe short story The White Heron made the biggest impact on me out of the three stories I read. I found myself almost constantly relating to young Sylvia as I was in my childhood. Her care-free attitude and apparent lack of anything stressful really takes me back to a place...

Death is the natural phenomena that every human will experience. Because of its unique characteristics and consequence, humans instinctively fear it. Death is so powerful and unstoppable that no one can really resist it. In Kate Chopin\'s short story \"The Story of An Hour,\" the protagonist sits on...

Celia Behind Me Short story – 1984 Summary: The short story is about a group of girls, but it's mainly about two of the girls; Celia and Elizabeth. The girls are about nine years old, but Celia has failed once, and is therefore one class behind the others. Celia is always followi...

The name of my hero is Logan. Logan may be a last name or it may be a first name, no one knows. Not even Logan. Logan is a man whose past is shrouded in mystery. Logan can only recall a short time, thirty years or so, in his long life. He possesses incredible physical attributes of an unknown -...

I will analyze this poem (NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY") in terms of denotation and connotation, imagery, and figurative language. Then I will make an interpretation based on formalistic view. There are several words that connote meanings beyond the dictionary meanings. I think "nature" s...

Peripety can occur when a person has a meeting that results in a change of character. In the short story titled Miss Brill, a woman has a chance encounter that has a tragic ending.Miss Brill was a lonely woman, who found enjoyment in the park on the weekends. While at the park, Miss Brill sat to lis...

The main character in this story is a female dog that goes by the name "the old bitch". She is yellow and has a soft fur. I think she is smart, psychological, very kind and devoted. She has got eleven puppies but the story just brings up two of them. There are two human beings close to her, Comfor...

"Ah Bartleby, Ah Humanity!" This is the key to the short story by Herman Melville "Bartleby", because it indicates that the image of Bartleby stands as a symbol for humanity on a universal level. This story is appealing for its symbolism. This, in turn, functions as a commentary ...

Charles Darwin had the greatest influence on the world of science by proving the evolution of living things. He had first noticed the similarities of plants and animals on the Galapagos Isles while embarking on a five-year cruise on the H.M.S Beagle. After noticing the similarities between the plant...

Modern day physicists classify all universal elements into either matter or energy; therefore, to define the most basic form of humanity, we must begin by defining humans as matter because we have mass and energy because we can move. We classify as living because we can biologically grow: furth...

Some people wonder if Montressor was insane in the short story \"The Cask of Amontillado.\" Well to me, he was. I say this because would a sane man want revenge on a person? Would a sane man want to kill someone in such a slow and painful way? That is the idea that is going to be discussed in this e...

Societal issues, specifically ethical issues, can be very difficult to resolve and may mean an awful lot to certain groups of people. Although there are several of these societal, ethical debates transpiring around us, abortion tends to be one of the nastier controversial subjects. Taking a stance ...

The Life and Death That Is Meant To Be All his life, he acted out in such way that he was in the system that surrounded the society, but never doubts his inner calls from the nature, rendered in his blood. Chris McCandless started his journey long before the summer of 1990. He was an adventurer by...

In the story "A Rose for Emily" the author was trying to illustrate the aftermath of a closure. Isolating a human being from the real world can sometimes lead to insanity. What Faulkner was trying to portray in his short story is how a sympathetic, caring and sensitive human being can turn...

Robert Louis Stevenson's famous, dark, haunting and terrific short novel, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was first published in 1886 and is still absorbing, relevant and deeply disturbing in this twenty- first century. Stevenson explores not only the theme of duality, ...

Simplicity Robert Fulghum's, All I Really Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, is an extraordinary account of simplicity. Fulghum's philosophy throughout this book is that we learn the basics, the most crucial fundamentals of life, when we are young. All other factors that w...

The mental ability of humans is a characteristic unparalleled in the natural world. We are alienated from other organisms by our complex and multifaceted thought process. In fact, humans are so unique in the animal kingdom that our greatest intellectual rival may be a nonliving object of our ...