Born on the eleventh day of September in 1885, David Herbert Lawrence was the fourth child of an illiterate coal miner. Lawrence was raised in a small mining town of Eastwood, Nottingham by his mother who happened to be a school a teacher. Threw his childhood David Herbert shared a very close relat...

A short story concentrates on creating a single dynamic effect and is limited in character and situation. It is a language of maximum yet economical effect. Every word must do a job, sometimes several jobs. Short stories are filled with numerous language and sound devices. These language and sound d...

Short Story vs. Novel Novels and short stories are very similar; they both tell an event, and the surroundings around the event, the writers often will use similar styles when they write the novel and short story. However, there are differences, a short story revolves around one event, using few de...

The Devil and Daniel Webster Movie In the movie and the short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster", written by Stephen Vincent Benet, there is illustrated the battle between the forces of good and evil. Although the story allows the reader to mentally picture the scenes and the mov...

The film representation's simple cinematography and dialog accurately capture the mood created in Chekhov's story, but it fails in other areas. The motives and thoughts of the characters could not be easily discovered, as the film focused on carrying on the plot with little attention give...

Charles W. Chesnutt, America's first great Black novelist, lived in the distinct political, social and cultural environment that found expression in his literary works. Instead of trying to hide behind the lightness of his skin color, as many fair skin African-Americans did, Chesnutt chose to show ...

Throughout history the roles of women has changed dramatically. Women have been enslaved, put down and their rights taken away from them. Women have slowly but surly evolved into the individuals ones sees today in public office, law firms or even the five o' clock news. However this evo...

"Writers often use the physical landscape of a text as being an integral part of the emotional landscape of the characters." Discuss how this is done with reference to one novel you have read. The conventional use of setting by writers of prose fiction is a key element which helps to c...

How does Faulkner direct and shape the reader's reaction's to the story? Faulkner takes advantage of flashbacks while he is constructing his narrative in order to accomplish a great effect of suspense. First, the narrator presents some fictional facts that provide verisimilitude to the ...

What does it mean to be a poet? Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a poet as "a maker of verses" and one "of great imaginative and expressive capabilities". While the first phrase is clearly an objective statement, the second phrase requires further examination than what a mer...

Manhood is a reoccurring theme in the short stories of Ernest Hemingway. In these stories we wittiness Nick Adam's viewpoint on what a man should be. Nick's sense of manhood is influenced by Nick, dealing with relationship, interactions with other "men", and the society which he lives in. ...

Stephen King is one of the most influential authors of today. His award-winning novels and short stories are known world -wide. His many awards and nominations have created a space for him in the literary world. King is a true ¡§Horror King¡, for his books, turned movies, have scared millions...

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, the son of Donald and Nellie Ruth king. His father, a merchant seaman, walked out on the family in 1950. His mother struggled with a number of low-paying jobs to support him and his adopted brother, David. As a child, Stephen Kin...

Garcia Marquez's "Death Constant Beyond Love." Gabriel Garcia Márquez uses the technique of magical realism in his novels as well as his short stories to blend reality and fantasy so that the distinction between the two erases. Irony is the use of words and images, to conve...

Robinson Crusoe was written by Daniel Defoe. The novel was firstpublished in 1719. It tells the story of a young explorer who becomes maroonedon a deserted island. His experiences of the island change his outlook on life. Daniel Defoe was a short story writer that came from an poor family.D...

Writing with Mechanics As one creates a story, the various techniques an author will use have a great impact on the story and the effect that it will have on the reader(s). A piece of literature serves its purpose when it leaves the readers with a new impression or insight. In the short story, Th...

The short story "Thank You, Ma'am" and the poem "Mother to Son", both by Langston Hughes are similar yet differ in many ways. In the following paragraphs I will explain the similarities and the differences. Besides being written by the same author the two litera...

David Baldacci was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1960. After high school he attended Virginia Commonwealth University, where he received his Bachelor of Art in political science. Immediately afterwards he began law school at the University of Virginia. While he was attending law school, he began...

John Steinbeck"Many of his books feature impoverished and dispossessed people, such as the American migrant farm workers..."(Ito 7)John Steinbeck started his career as a writer during the Great depression and this time period effected his career greatly. Many of his books, short stories, and charac...

Hemingway's Iceberg In the works of Ernest Hemingway, prose style is as important to the work as the content. Hemingway's style includes the use of short, choppy sentences that are descriptive and have underlying meanings that are integral to the work. Hemingway uses this technique, th...

Under the pen name of Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens mocks the British monarchy under the facade of a child's fairytale. He dedicates his short novel to the young minds of adolescence, and yet it falls nothing short of a mature purpose. This converted American steamboat pilot constructs a novel dis...

Truman Capote, one of America's more colorful literary personalities, was born in New Orleans in 1924 and died in California in 1984. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction -- short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films. His work of fiction that i...

In Another Country What we do and observe everyday determines us as people. Our reactions, and expressions of our thoughts allow those around us to perceive who we are. Ernest Hemingway shows in the short novel In Another Country the various types of lives people lead, and the issues the face...

Innocence, Compassion, and some 'Crazy' Cliff A novel, which has gained literary recognition worldwide, scrutiny to the point of censorship and has established a following among adolescents, The Catcher in the Rye is in its entirety a unique connotation of the preservation of ...

The Mother in the short story "Daughter of Invention", by Julia Alvarez can be defined as an antiheroine, an ordinary, non-glorious, modern citizen you can easily relate with. The way she misuses aphorisms, her "great" inventions and the way she helps her daughter, draws you in and make you feel a c...