"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on." This quote by Louis L 'amour fully captures the essence of writing. Writing has to be felt and just written, because when too much thought is placed into the writing, it becomes strained and does not flow. All writers have this beautiful gift, it just has to realize. No matter what little ideas one has eventually they will all come, but the first step has to be made. This first step in an author 's career can be writing short stories. Every story contains its key techniques that apply a certain feeling and pizazz to it, and the following stories are some examples of this.
In the short stories the Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov and Cornet and Night by Sinclair …show more content…
In both stories, the perspective of the story is from the child, however Wings Chips uses dialogue to develop its characters but Persian Carpet uses flashbacks. Wings Chips by Mavis Gallant uses dialogue to develop the character of the daughter. The daughter at the initial events of the story sees her father as a failed artist. This can be seen when she says. "His failure weighed heavily on me… he was forever painting people who didn 't pay him a cent for doing it" (Gallant 208). As a young child, having the world tell you that your father is a weird man every day, eventually gets to you. In this case, it does. Everyone would always question about him, calling him "Drôle de père" (Gallant 205), and telling her that he needs a real job. However when the father paints the sign for wings chips, she is proud of him, saying, " 'Wing 's Chips, ' proof that my father was an ordinary workingman just like anybody else…" (Gallant 211). This is how the daughter has developed throughout the story. However, in the story The Persian Carpet by Hanan Shaykh, flashbacks are used to develop the character of the daughter. In this short story a blind man named Ilya gets blamed for something that he did not do. The daughter realizes this when she goes to there mother 's house and she sees the carpet that was 'stolen '. She has a flashback about the carpet and
In the short stories the Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov and Cornet and Night by Sinclair …show more content…
In both stories, the perspective of the story is from the child, however Wings Chips uses dialogue to develop its characters but Persian Carpet uses flashbacks. Wings Chips by Mavis Gallant uses dialogue to develop the character of the daughter. The daughter at the initial events of the story sees her father as a failed artist. This can be seen when she says. "His failure weighed heavily on me… he was forever painting people who didn 't pay him a cent for doing it" (Gallant 208). As a young child, having the world tell you that your father is a weird man every day, eventually gets to you. In this case, it does. Everyone would always question about him, calling him "Drôle de père" (Gallant 205), and telling her that he needs a real job. However when the father paints the sign for wings chips, she is proud of him, saying, " 'Wing 's Chips, ' proof that my father was an ordinary workingman just like anybody else…" (Gallant 211). This is how the daughter has developed throughout the story. However, in the story The Persian Carpet by Hanan Shaykh, flashbacks are used to develop the character of the daughter. In this short story a blind man named Ilya gets blamed for something that he did not do. The daughter realizes this when she goes to there mother 's house and she sees the carpet that was 'stolen '. She has a flashback about the carpet and