In "Hills Like White Elephants" a couple discusses whether the girl should have an abortion. Although in the story, the couple never uses the word "abortion" the reader has to infer the meaning. The diction, syntax, and tone contribute to the theme of "Hills Like White Ele...

The setting is very important in a short story. It sets the stage for how characters act and feel and provides a backdrop for the plot. In a short story the author has a limited time to get a picture across of what is going on in the story to the reader. "The Most Dangerous Game", by Richa...

Ernest Hemingway is an American author whose ideas of courage and honor in a confusing and hostile world, remain as inspiration to this day. The short stories of Ernest Hemingway are among the most important works of American literature. In order to understand more about American literature, I have ...

?The text under interpretation is a short story called "The Wind Blows" written by Katherine Mansfield. Katherine Mansfield was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction. Her life and work were changed forever with the death of her brother during The Great War. She was shocked by the...

"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...

Luigi Pirandello's short story, War, clearly reflects Pirandello'slife and experiences. Pirandello's Italian birth and student life in Romeis reflected in War, which is set in Italy, and refers to the protagonist'sson, who has lived as a student in Rome. War also reveals a great dealabout Pi...

Unrequited love is when one person loves someone but that person is not loved back. Shakespeare and Maureen Daly both used examples of unrequited love in Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream and Daly's short story "Sixteen". In both these stories unrequited love affected the emotions of so...

Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" is the compelling short short story of the loss of love, but in return, the gain of freedom. The main character, Mrs. Mallard, "loses" her husband, but soon realizes that she has acquired a new life for herself. The plot of "The St...

Tragic LossIn Viramontes' short stories, "The Cariboo Cafe" and "Neighbors", you begin to find a similarity in two of the main characters. The cafe owner, from "The Cariboo Cafe" and Fierro, from "Neighbors", are two men who have both suffered the loss of a son. The cafe owner's son, JoJo, died in V...

It is said that books are better then the movies created from books. I feel that the story and the film complement each other for Willa Cather's short story, "Paul's Case," is about a young, Calvinist man who did not feel that he belonged in his life. He lived on Cordelia Street in Pittsburgh, PA. C...

"Variations on the Word Love" By Margaret Atwood What is Love? The word love can no longer be associated the meaning of intense feeling for another, that it once had. In her poem Margaret Atwood recognizes abuse and overuse of "love", so much so, that it has lost its denota...

Everyone is faced with a frightening decision that their survival depends upon, like this summer when I went bridge jumping for the first time with some friends. We had just arrived at the bridge by Rush Lake when my friend, Chris, pulled up on his motorcycle. I decided I'd sneak up on him, j...

A woman that lived a hundred years ago did not feel free because women felt that they were not able to do what they wanted to, since their family duties took too much of their time. Kate Chopin's short story, "The Story of an Hour," deals with the life of a woman, Louise Mallard, who ...

The Love WithinWhat is love? So many people wonder, yet few really know. Love is blind, but if you are fortunate to find true love, you should cherish it and never let it go under appreciated because love is ever changing. In the short story "Early Autumn" by Langston Hughes, this ever-changing c...

The Love WithinWhat is love? So many people wonder, yet few really know. Love is blind, but if you are fortunate to find true love, you should cherish it and never let it go under appreciated because love is ever changing. In the short story "Early Autumn" by Langston Hughes, this ever-changing c...

In the short story "An Ounce of Cure" by Alice Munro, the main points reflex around the coming of age of an ignorant and innocent teenager. The story show us that teenager's attitude are shaped on the idea of what the people in the town think a typical teenager in their town should be; what's expec...

Love and Basketball How many of the ya'll been in love before?. I know I have. Now, how many of ya'll like to play basketball? Well I love to play basketball. When you put those two together; what do you have? Love and Basketball. From the playground to the pro leagues, Monica an...

Assignment 3: Question # 2 Rizwan Semab Sinclair Ross uses vivid imagery of nature to symbolize and influence the emotions of his characters in his short story The Lamp at Noon. The wind is a powerful force that changes with the emotions of Ellen and Paul. Sinclair describes the wind as two...

Mirror Image Identity What is identity? Identity is the basic characteristics that determine a persons or things fact of being. The short story "Mirror Image" illiterates this best with its different conflicts pertaining not only to physical attributes but also mental, emotional...

Analyzing The Story of an HourThe Story of an Hour is a short essay that describes what Mrs. Mallard goes through when she finds out her husband has been killed in a train accident. At first she is extremely sad but when she looks out the window it becomes apparent to her that she is free. Mrs. Ma...

The short fictional drama with a touch of romance, Turned written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an emotional story of divorce and the mistreatment of women from a woman's/the author's point of view.The story talks of how intolerant and mistreated women were, whether they were rich or poor or foreig...

In "The story of an Hour", a short story by Kate Chopin, Louise Mallard is faced with the abrupt death of her husband. Mallard is then torn between her feelings of brief remorse and longing relief. Although Louise Mallard's reactions of relief and freedom after her husband's death make her seem li...

What is true love? In D.H. Lawrence's short story "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" we observe as Mabel, the protagonist of the story, suffers through crisis to find love with a man named Jack Fergusson. However, what Mabel and Jack both find is not love but a mockery of it. For the love they hold is...

A LIFE SPENT IN FEAR IS A LIFE HALF LIVEDWhen i consider how my life was spent, what i want most is to be able to look back and say that there wasn't anything I regret, no chances i didn't take, nothing i passed up and most importantly that I have enjoyed life to the fullest. Life is too short to ha...

Ann Beattie writes her short story "The Lawn Party" as a male narrator. Because men tend to be less emotional than women are, this makes the narrator's point of view more believable. Although this is a story that moves from one agonizing situation to another, the lack of human emotion leaves one w...