A holiday story This is a story about what I thought was going to be a lonely and uneventful Christmas holiday time. I was planning to have a very quiet holiday season because my wife and youngest son were going to be in South America for the Christmas season. My reason for not going with them...

This story is about how an eighteen-year-old orphan named Judy Abbott was allowed to go to college. It all began when the John Grier Home, the orphanage where she lived, had a faculty meeting, where a question of her future came up. It was decided that a trustee who only until now only sent boys to ...

The Gift Of The Magi In the story "The Gift Of The Magi" by O. Henry, I think that the author mainly used three of the seven elements. The three elements that I thought he, O. Henry, put to great use in this short story were plot, theme, and tone. The other four elements were used as...

The rush is on, the stores are closing, there's no time left. WAIT get a hold of yourself, 30 minutes and counting. People scurry around with good intentions but no direction. My hands are full; my legs tired and boy do my feet ache. I maneuver my already overwhelmed limbs threw the hordes of l...

Why did it have a way of staying in her mind their glassy eyes gleamed in the dull light? Empty eyes always seemed to remind reva of dead eyes. Rena was on her way home from smith collage for Christmas vacation. She was accompanied by her roommate grace Morton. It just didn't feel right if Rena...

Both the setting and final outcome of Shirley Jackson's "the Lottery" are Ironic. Jackson sets the stage of her story in a seemingly normal village. She establishes this normalness by describing the activitys of the townspeople. She tells how "The town has all the usual sights like the post offi...

My Oedipus Complex The story "My Oedipus Complex" by Frank O'Connor deals exclusively with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention,...

Atonement is a fund concept in the Jewish and Christian religions. 'Yom Kippur', the day of atonement is the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar. The need for atonement arises when an individual has committed a crime about which he feels guilty and for which he wishes to make amends, to the wrong...

Falling Review... What a beginning it brought to see a young girls foot (Caitlin Medows) lost in an accident. What an impression I got of Lucas Beigne when he felt guilty. Could this be he executed this? When actually he was a hero? The future was present, but the past had diminished... Lucas wasn...

Everyone looks at Internet dating as a bad thing. It's only a bad thing if you don't take it seriously. See, this Christmas I just met my girlfriend of 14 months. We'll call her "KK". We drove all the way to a small town in Missouri to meet her. She is a great girl and we clicked instantly, jus...

Should have spent less time looking good and more time feeling good. Should have drove the speed limit and enjoyed the scenery instead of speeding and looking for cops should have kept in contact with old freinds. Shouldn't of said i'm busy everytime my little cousin wanted me to teach him pl...

In high school, I was a bad kid. I didn't do drugs or drink beer, but I was bad. School wasn't a priority of mine during my junior year, and I failed all of my classes except weight training, ceramics, and jewelry. I lived for the bell at the end of the day. This was the first year that...

Murder in the Cathedral I believe the conflict and change within the main character, Thomas Beckett, was very drastic. Thomas went from running away from his problems, to facing them and ultimate killing himself because of it. At the beginning of the play Thomas was running away...

One year, a basketball team set out on what they thought would be another successful season. They had trained hard during the off-season and were prepared to face whatever came their way. They started the season on a rough note with a mediocre showing at a thanksgiving tournament. Then, one ...

The old woman is a guilty of putting Buddy in danger because she is mentally ill, does not expose Buddy to the outside world, and puts Buddy is dangerous situations. This could be a major threat to Buddy and his life growing up because the old woman does not teach Buddy proper manners as a child. ...

The use of Irony and Foreshadowing in The Lottery "The author of several critically acclaimed novels, Jackson is best known for her psychological horror story The Lottery"(248 SSC). The setting that is given by Shirley Jackson in the beginning of The Lottery creates a mood calmness a...

Guilt Every person, at some point in his life did something he is not really proud of. After, somebody might experience a feeling of guilt. Usually, it won't last very long. But sometimes, when your action has terrible consequences, you can experience guilt all your life. In the story Fifth...

Autumn in New York Autumn in New York is a moving love story that stars Richard Gere as Wil, and Wynona Ryder as Charlotte. Wil, a typical womanizer, is introduced to Charlotte, a unique young woman, by her grandmother, whom he had known for many years, and the two are instantly attracted to ...

Women's Escape into Misery Women's need for male support and their husband's constant degradation of them was a recurring theme in the book House on Mango Street. Many of Esperanza's stories were about women's dreams of marrying, the perfect husband and having the perf...