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A Personal Account of My Sister’s Wedding Day (518 words, 1 pages)

On the day of September 1, 2002 my sister, Laurie, had her big wedding day. The day started off at nine o-clock in the morning. All of the girls that were in the bridal party came over to my house to get ready. As we shoved food down our throats, ... Read More

The Portrayal of Romantic Relationships in The Kiss, The Story of an Hour, and The Storm by Kate Chopin (3192 words, 4 pages)

A relationship is a means of interactions with the other person as two complete individuals coming together to share experiences. In the "The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin" by Kate Chopin there are relationships that are difficult to apprehend, and in that, they contain many problems which may ... Read More

An Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Story The Black Cat (992 words, 2 pages)

Fiction Fundamentals, More Than Meets the Eye The fundamental elements of short stories essentially hold the key to its success. For most, it is the plot, with its cunning twist and turns, to hold the reader in suspense. For Edgar Allen Poe, it is the exact opposite. He uses the ... Read More

An Analysis of Doris Lessing’s Story The Antheap (868 words, 1 pages)

The Antheap The Antheap by Doris Lessing is a story of the struggles between two boys who are growing up in Africa and learn to deal with the racism in their lives. I like Lessings use of words, especially the way in which she describes the pit. This is a ... Read More

An Analysis of the Narrative in The Tell-Tale Heart, a Story by Edgar Allan Poe (866 words, 1 pages)

Tell Tell Heart Use of Point of View There is a belief that the eyes are windows to the soul. But to some, the soul resides in the heart. In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell Tell Heart," he also links these two body parts. The story opens with this unnamed ... Read More

A Short Analysis of the Story The Ninja by Eric Lustbader (1684 words, 3 pages)

Master of the Orient THE NINJA Born and raised in New York City, Eric Lustbader graduated from Columbia University in 1969. Lustbader has had a number of fascinating best-selling novels, including Black Heart and Angel Eyes, he introduced Elton John to the American music scene. He spent fifteen years in ... Read More

The Symbolism in the Stories I’m Still Here and Forgivness in Famalies in Heartland (404 words, 1 pages)

Many interesting stories are held within the pages of "Heartland". The stories by Canadian authors including Alice Munro, Veronica Ross, and Roch Carrier, capture the readers interest through plot twists, characters, theme, and much more. As the readers we are led to ask whether or not what is written on ... Read More

Supporting Characters Adds Completion and Brilliance to a Story (839 words, 2 pages)

Supporting Characters Added Story Depth Without supporting characters, most plays would be akin to an orchestra without a violin section, i.e., the foundation is there, but it lacks completion and brilliance. Although supporting characters often have minor roles in the plot, they generally enhance the story and entertain the reader. ... Read More

A Creative Story about a Suicidal Person in Prison (4314 words, 10 pages)

The only light in cell came from a light fixture place in the hall. Bolted on to a slimy dirt covered wall. The nauseating stench of fresh death and decay filled his lungs, making him sick to death some days. In the cell next to his, a man had hours ... Read More

A Summary of the Story a Space Odyssey (303 words, 1 pages)

2001 A Space Odyssey is about a man fighting against a deadly computer on his way to the next step in the human race. This story takes place from 2001 to 2003 and on the Earth, the Moon, and space. The main character is David Bowman, an astronaut trained in ... Read More

My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun (482 words, 1 pages)

My Mistress Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun William Shakespeares poem, Sonnet 130 has a rhyme scheme and a rugged tone. Its three quatrains, four-line stanzas, and couplet, two-line stanza expresses that It also has a tone to it that signals some meaning to it. In this sonnet, Sonnet 130, ... Read More

My Experience Watching a Contemporary Ballet of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (642 words, 1 pages)

On March 21, 1998, I attended a ballet of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Etherredge Center. The ballet began at 730p.m. and lasted almost two hours, but the time went by so quickly because the dancers were so captivating in their performance. Two of the performers were ... Read More

An Analysis of a Story of a Careless 16-Year Old Boy (819 words, 2 pages)

"What do you want now?" He spat these words at me. These were the words of a 16-year-old boy who didn't give a damn if I was upset. I was locked in a room full of children who were feeling the air for their own voices back. Would I have ... Read More

A Comparative Analysis of the Protagonists in the Short Story “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence and “Angel Levine” by Bernard Malamud (976 words, 2 pages)

In D.H. Lawrence's short story, "The Rocking Horse Winner", and Bernard Malamud's "Angel Levine", the protagonists are greatly affected by both ethical and emotional problems. As a result, their sense of judgment is victimized due to the effects of their problems. Whether in a story about religion and faith like ... Read More

An Analysis of the Story About a Long Wait (997 words, 2 pages)

Waiting The thunder rolled like the bass drum of a marching band, steadily, continuously. The rain pounded relentlessly against the bare windows and lightning illuminated the dark grey sky. The eerie sound of the wind as it shrieked and howled alone was enough to awaken the dead and yet, all ... Read More

An Anthology of Jorge Borges’ Short Stories (1377 words, 2 pages)

An Anthology of Short Stories by Jorge Borges In the following three short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, we see how the idea of real the and illusion influence one another as described by the author and in his work. In the first short story, Everything and Nothing, Borges explains ... Read More

A Comparison of Edgar Allan Poe’s Stories the Fall of the House of Usher and the Cask of Amontillado (801 words, 2 pages)

Poe's Menacing Mind Edgar Allan Poe is a major American Poet of the Nineteenth Century. He is also known for his achievements in short fiction and criticism for American Literature. In Poe's tales he uses setting to set the mood and to foreshadow certain things in his essays. In the ... Read More

An Analysis of a Fiction Story About a Dream (452 words, 1 pages)

I live in a place with many others. The house is divided into levels and we each have our own section in which we stay at all times. But every so often, someone, usually from the top level, is taken away. They never return. My best friend is my next-door ... Read More

An Analysis of a Story About A Vacation in the Blue Mountains (305 words, 1 pages)

Ever since the first summer I can possibly remember, my dad would take my sister and I out to our cabin up in the Blue Mountains. The drive always seemed so long. I can still remember seeing a particular fir tree at a fork in the gravel road that led ... Read More

An Analysis of a Story About A Horrific Encounter in the Rain (851 words, 1 pages)

The solitude of the fearful evening added to frightful atmosphere of the cold winter's night. The piercing wind breathed heavily through the city and the tiny droplets of rain danced on the roofs of every building like a concert of tap dancers. All were asleep cozy in their beds. Anxiously, ... Read More

Crawling My Way Into the Room of Champions (671 words, 1 pages)

The Room of Champions I first notice the old, creaking, wooden door with a large glowing Do Not Enter sign and the shiny, reflective, white letters of stolen street signs from the hick town of Blenheim. I then see the bright, radiant, yellow strips of fire line tape and crime ... Read More

A Short Story of the over Stimulating Music and Calming Rhymes (278 words, 1 pages)

Flashes of bright lights, greens, yellows, reds...mixing together...spinning, dancing...overwhelming the soul and mind's eye. Captivating, titillating and over-stimulating, the music surrounds him, the voices rising and falling to a conductor's chaotic direction...Everything stops. The soothing calm drips off his nose in fat drops and he lets the warm, slightly stale ... Read More

A Writer’s Story About His Trip to Rome, Italy (986 words, 2 pages)

My Trip to Rome, Italy I had learned I was being sent to Italy in March of 2000 for a machine tool exhibition. I found out the happy news just before leaving work. Excitedly I jumped into my car and started my journey home. As I drove home down I-95 ... Read More

An Analysis of Meaning of Theodore Roethke’s Poem My Papa’s Waltz (414 words, 1 pages)

Roethke's Waltz or Abuse Is Theordore Roethke's poem, "My Papa's Waltz," a description of playful roughhousing or an abusive situation between father and child? After reading and analyzing this work, I envision one of abuse. Initially, the first two stanzas might possibly have been interpreted either way. The father and ... Read More

My Inspiration to the Idea of Literary Experimentation from the Article “The Rhetoric of the Exeter Riddles” (1658 words, 3 pages)

Part One An Explanation Marie Nelson, in her article, The Rhetoric of the Exeter Book Riddles, inspired me to the idea of conducting a literary experiment. Nelson says, The Exeter Book riddlers wrote enigmatic definitions, and then adds, much of the skill that they exhibited in their double task of ... Read More

The Amazing Theme behind the Story of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (446 words, 1 pages)

Its amazing that after so many years and viewings, Monty Python and the Holy Grail remains as fresh and funny as ever. The sheer idiocy and ridiculousness that runs rampant through the film and its actors cannot be denied its fair share of humor value. I know that this being ... Read More

The Story of the Two Swans in Clifford Dyment’s The Swans (1147 words, 3 pages)

The Swans, by Clifford Dyment Midstream they met. Challenger and champion, They fought a war for honor Fierce, sharp, but with no honor Each had a simple aim and sought it quickly. The combat over the victor sailed away Broken, but placid as the gift of swans, Leaving his rival ... Read More

The Story of the Immigrant Chinese Family in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone’s Book (640 words, 1 pages)

Response Paper on Bone Fae Myenne Ng's Bone narrates the story of an immigrant Chinese family settled in Chinatown. The story revolves around various types of relationships among the characters, with marriage as a common thread binding them all. The author presents different types of marriages and their respective effects ... Read More

The Story of Conflict Between the Greasers and the Socs in S.E Hinton’s Novel “The Outsiders” (2480 words, 3 pages)

Thesis The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a novel which tells the story of conflict between the "greasers" and the "Socs," captures the voice of ponyboy and his friends in a realistic way that relates to boys and their gangs even today. This story has a lot of issues that are ... Read More

My Ntonia as Told from the Point of View of Willa Cather’s Fiction Friend Jim Burden (1035 words, 2 pages)

My ntonia has been called nostalgic and elegiac because it celebrates the past. The inscription on the title page of My ntonia is a quotation from Virgil 'Optima dies... prima fugit.' This sentence, meaning 'the best days are first to flee', helps incorporate all the elements of the novel I ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013