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...

Short of asking the deans of various English Literature departmentswhy they have virtually removed the women's short story genre fromcoursework, perhaps another way to get at an answer is to review the statusof "women's lit" generally in the society. A very basic place to start(and one isn't ...

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...

Edgar Allen Poe developed ten principles that apply to short stories. In the story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, these principles are shown throughout the story. The story is about a young girl who is living in a society from Earth on Venus. Venus has one hour of summer every 7 years and t...

Short Story Analysis Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield 1.)Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, into a middle-class colonial family. Her father, Harold Beauchamp, was a banker and her mother, Annie Burnell Dyer, was of genteel origins. New Zealand's most famous writer, who was c...

Technology is on of the most reliable resources available to man kind. Technological activities create a faster means of getting a job done with ease. As the future approaches the technology is rapidly increasing allowing people to achieve more activities in short amount of time. The short story &a...

Science Fiction Science fiction takes an idea or moral issue and exaggerates it, then explores the implications of it. The story has "Harrison Bergeron" there are many different examples of this. In the short story "True Love" there are also many examples. Kurt Vonnegut Jr....

Ray Bradbury Biography U.S. author, born in Waukegan, Ill., on Aug. 22, 1920. In his stories, Bradbury wove together the intrigue of changing technology with insightful social commentary. One of his best-known works was 'The Martian Chronicles'; a collection of interrelated stories concer...

To the Stars Ray Bradbury was a great writer on many levels. He could write novels, short stories, essays, plays, screenplays, and poetry. An active imagination and a fascination with outer space combine in many of Ray Bradbury's stories. Ray Bradbury surpassed an unstable childhood to become a worl...

"The Fountains" is a short story from Orsinian Tales, written by Ursula K. Le Guin. This collection of short stories is set in the imaginary Eastern European country of Orsinia. Every story takes place in a different time period and on the last page of each story the year of occurrence is...

Walter Mosley was born in Los Angeles in 1952. He currently lives in New York City. He has been at various times in his life a potter, a computer programmer, a poet, and a short story writer; he studied writing in the graduate program of City College ofNew York.The first title in his Easy Rawlins my...

"Leiningen Versus The Ants"The short story "Leiningen Versus The Ants" by Carl Stephenson has no real apparent connection to the author's life. There is no real evidence that proves anything from the story is related to the author's life. The setting is "the wilds of Brazil" ("Guide" 45) The main ...

"Suffer the Little Children""Suffer the Little Children" is a great science fiction story written by the legendary author Stephen King. The short story is filled with many descriptive statements that really catch the reader's imagination. "Suffer the Little Children" is about a third grade element...

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...

Edgar Allen Poe's use of verbal and dramatic irony as well as symbolism in the short story " The Cask of Amontillado" supports his theme of pride and revenge. The story depicts two men, Montresor and Fortunato, the first man feels he has to seek revenge because of family pride and t...

The use of irony makes stories enjoyable to read. Stories with irony keeps readers interested and in suspense. The use of irony Kate Chopin uses in the short story "The Story of an Hour" keeps readers attached to the story and lets readers understand Mrs. Mallard's true feelings about her husband....

Seldom does a visionary come along with the foresight and imagination to take people to the future; Ray Bradbury is one of those visionaries. Ray Bradbury has had such an impact on the world that the full magnitude of his contribution may never be truly known. Generations have been inspired by his...

Usually writers are remembered for their uniqueness as a storyteller. One reason may be for the story's tension, humor, sadness or other quality. Many writers want to add special elements to their writing that would interest the reader. For example, Mark Twain and his short story, "The N...

Values Does humanity really need to be improved? Has our society gotten so bad that we need to make changes that will supposedly make it better? There are definitely problems that need to be dealt with. We have a lot of violence, education problems, as well as other crimes in our society,...

Authors create stories to tickle us funny, make us weep, or shock us to the core. While some stories are easily forgotten, there are those that leave a lasting impression in one's mind. The mood that an author creates is vital in leaving this impression on his or her audience. In the short st...

Ray Bradbury is more than just a legendary American novelist. He is also a short story writer, essayist, playwright screenwriter, poet, an owner of four cats, a father to four daughters, a grandfather to eight grandchildren, and he was a husband to Maggie until her death in November of 2003. They we...

Bicentennial Man, by Isaac Asimov, tells a story of a robot, who is somewhat different and slowly becomes a human after two hundred years of upgrades and modifications. Asimov's original collection of short stories are aimed to provide a positive angle on robots, when really in contrast, scien...

One of the most prolific writers of his time, H.G. ( Herbert George) Wells was able to do it all. He was universal, and could write from many different sides. He was one of the most versitile writers, as he could write like a novelist, as in the The History of Mr. Polly. He could also write short...

Imagine a world where almost everybody looks and acts just like you do. In Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, this imaginary world where everybody is the same as everybody else becomes an awesome reality. A reality in which no one is unique and everyone lacks individuality. Aldous Huxley...

The story "A Sound of Thunder" takes place in 2055 A. D. and then they go back into the past to the Jurassic Period. These people who go are expert hunters and they want to get a "big catch" so they intend on shooting and killing a Tyrannosaurus Rex. One of the hunters named Mr...