Author Sketch Sandra Cisneros writing style in the novel The House on mango Street transcends two genres: poetry and short story. Cisneros poetic style makes the novel easier to read and comprehend than a novel written in a traditional style. She writ...

When I read Bradbury‘s short story "The Veldt" I thought in how technology has been slowly changing the humanity. At first we did not had any kind of technology, all the work was done by hand and we had no form of technological communication, we only had to speak person to person o...

Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Cat in the Rain" is, on the surface, a simple tale of an American couple in Italy. However, the reader soon realizes that this uncomplicated tale illuminates much deeper meanings. Of significant important is the author's attitude toward the main characters. Hem...

A Story of IsolationIn the short story "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner tells the sad story of Miss Emily's unstable state of mind. The theme in this story is that of isolation. Here is a woman who never left the sanctity of her home for something like 30 years. She did give china painting le...

Daniel Keyes was born in Brooklyn in 1927. Once an editor, he married a fashion photographer and had 2 daughters. Keyes was once an English teacher at Midwood High School for 6 years after getting his Bachelors and Masters Degree at Brooklyn College. He was also the junior commissioner for Wayne Sta...

Victor Cannig's "The smuggler" is a fictional story of two well respected men on Small Island. Tasso and The Great Man are very similar expect for there physical appearance and mood. Tasso and The Great Man are both very clever and witty. They spoke their words with ease and smoothness. Tasso and Th...