Short Argumentative Essay Example

Submissive is defined as; “inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another.” (Dictionary.com) This word could be used to describe the father Bailey in the short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor. Some could argue that the lack of dominance Bailey displayed eventually led up to the murdering of his entire family. A few examples that help display Bailey’s lack of dominance are: how he lets his mother walk all over him, how his children are defiant and…

Heritage is something that is handed down from our ancestors, it is a tradition. In the short story, Everyday Use: For Your Grandmama, Maggie and Dee view these traditions in extraordinarily different ways. In order to understand their views, we must understand the characters. Maggie, the sister of Dee, is a nervous, uneducated young black woman. Because of a past tragedy she views herself as ugly. She never received the same education her sister, but I am not sure she truly wanted it.…

The short story that I found to be most interesting in the aspects to elements of fiction was called “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author uses many strong elements that help grant the reader the full picture of the story from many different angles. The unique way F.Scott Fitzgerald is able to shift his dictation and syntax brings the reader to morally question things going on in their own life, producing provocative ideas and new ways of thinking after reading the story. The…

There are several underlying themes throughout The Chrysanthemums, but the ultimate theme is gender inequality and the oppression of women in society. This short story by John Steinbeck is about a thirty-five-year-old woman named Elisa who has an intense love for gardening. Although she is a great and extremely capable gardener, she is forced by her husband to apply her skills only on the tasks that are dictated to her role as a woman in society. As a result of this, she is forbidden from…

In the short story “The Lottery”, the author Shirley Jackson writes of a small town presumably somewhere in the United States where an annual ceremony is held. In the lead up to the ceremony Jackson depicts the atmosphere in the town as the people prepare for this ritual that is known as the lottery. Jackson doesn’t mention throughout the exposition of the short story what the lottery exactly is but we find that there is an uncertain atmosphere surrounding the ceremony. In the preparation she…

classmate from high school wanted to know how I was, and to tell me that he’d had a short story published. He said he remembered that I was “in the writing scene” in high school, which cracked me up. Our graduating class was 60 kids, the whole high school under 200 kids, and I never saw any “scene” that I was aware of. However, it touched me that he thought I was a writer. I felt guilty –I had recently written a short story for fun, but I wasn’t “really” writing anymore, and I still wasn’t…

when her parents are away at a barbeque. Arnold, asks her to come with him in his car, she refuses, try’s to call the police, he enters the house and something happens that is not clear but she ends up leaving with him in the end. The point of this short story is to show how stalkers through the use of fear, psychological abuse…

Education and social class was something that just clicked in my head when I heard of the two concepts a few years ago. Now in college when I revisit these themes of life and read the articles about them in the book I can look at it in another way. In my first M1 essay I learned a lot of things about myself, mostly how I need to improve. In the first essay I learned that I need to improve my into paragraph a lot. It didn’t not even have a good hook, something to grab the reader’s attention.…

and/or demonic possession -- or is he going insane? On the flip side, this subgenre can feature an insane protagonist, such as a tormented serial killer. One of the stories I have read that presents psychological characteristics is “The Lottery”. This short story by Shirley Jackson is about a small town in the middle of nowhere that celebrates a really creepy and weird tradition every year to take care of the crops of corn, the tradition consisted in a lottery where all the people of this small…

How are you doing? I have not talked or written to you for such a long time, and I really regret about the lost connections between us. I can still remember playing basketball, soccer, and ping pong with you everyday after school. Although you were always more athletic than me, I was still very confident to challenge you every single game. Do you still remember the good times we spent in Mr. Wang’s English class? We were the troublemakers in that classroom, but Mr. Wang could tolerate our…