Short Argumentative Essay Example

The Gothic short story is a literary genre that although brief, is thought provoking. It is a genre characterized by several conventions including a simultaneous attraction, yet repulsion to a particular thing, the magnification of a given element as well as an archetypal setting such as an abandoned church or a monastery. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark”, Hawthorne uses several of these conventions and presents the reader with Aylmer, a man of science who forms an obsession…

There are about seven billion people living on earth today, and about fifty-seven million miles of land surface area that we share. Simply put there are a lot of people living in a relatively small amount of space. This ratio of space to people would lead one to think that people would never be lonely, they would always have a friend. While this reasoning makes sense it does not ring true in: “Solace of Open Spaces” by Gretel Ehrlich, “The Way to Rainy Mountain” by Scott Momaday, “They All Just…

Set in 1948 and published in The New Yorker, the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson describes an annual ritual, in a small village that leads to death for an unlucky winner. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” follows the genre conventions of a classic dystopian short story through the use of symbolism and connection between specific themes from the story to many common, yet profound and complex characteristics of dystopian literature in order to implicitly and thoughtfully convince the…

In the college course, WRC 1013, I have faced many challenges doing writing assignments and essays. On the other hand, my writing skills have improved during the time in the class. What I have found in various assignments and essays in the class is that I have a main weakness and strength. My main strength in writing is that I present active voice throughout my essays and assignments; my main weakness in writing is that I repetitively state the same words throughout my essays and assignments.…

Literary Devices In the three short stories The Lottery, The Yellow Wallpaper, and A Rose for Emily, the stories take place during different times and have hardly any plot similarities. All three authors of these stories used literary devices; we will look at how they use these literary devices in each store. In the story The Lottery the author uses foreshadowing and The Yellow Wallpaper imagery and in A Rose for Emily metaphors. In the short story, The Lottery a foreshadowing event takes place…

Social environment influences every action done and every word spoken or written no matter how obviously. From birth, the world surrounding a person sends them small messages of how to act and how to speak. This concept is usually apparent in the written works produced by man. As I Lay Dying reflects the society that surrounded the author and points out several factors from that time in history. The novel reflects the social issues and concerns of the time such as female rights and poverty.…

Sandra Cisneros is the author of a short story entitled "Mericans”. It has a young female narrator is stuck in an “old world” culture. In this particular case it is a Mexican culture. The narrator does not seem to understand the traditions, this shows a rift between the children that are Mexican but are being brought up in America and their grandmother who has migrated here from Mexico. Ciseneros uses the setting and symbolism to create the theme of individualism conflicting with cultural…

Cathedral Who is actually considered blind? A person who cannot physically see or a person who cannot see because of their ignorance? In Raymond Carver 's short story Cathedral, as any other good short story. We have our antihero who also comes along with our protagonist. In this case our antihero has no name, but goes by the title the narrator. Both of these main characters are proceeded differently. Robert the protagonist of the story embodies the characteristics of being a humble person who…

Earlier this semester I wrote a paper about a couple of stories by the late 1800’s writer Kate Chopin. I reviewed some of her short stories and came to a conclusion that most of them had some sort of morality error in them. This left me wondering why Chopin liked writing about this subject, and why it happened multiple times during her lifetime. During the research it was discovered that Kate Chopin had a very normal life. No cases of depleted morality, just a normal lady whose husband died and…

controversial themes needed a medium of presentation. Some of these themes were relevant to her own life. Many scholars have concluded that some of her short stories were inspired by her own experiences (Wolff 270). However, her short stories also had the intention of presenting a theme to the reader that is impactful and will last. Kate Chopin, in her short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “A Respectable Woman” explores the themes of Feminism, independence and also postmodernism. Feminism,…