Short Essay on Career

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,…

The two short stories A Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan and The Haunted House by Virginia Wolf in which both provide the reader insight to love for their families revealing memories of the days gone by. The author, Amy Tan tells a story of a loving family in search for her sister and seeing family after numerous years. The author, Virginia Wolf tells the story of a couple who are ghosts and return to their house they once lived looking for a treasure. Both stories give the reader insight to love…

In the short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor, the reader is introduced to the complex characters of the Grandmother and Misfit as each journey across the dirt roads of Georgia until their lives intersect. At this intersection, O’Connor beautifully portrays the trouble that society has with determining what is good and what is bad. It is here that O’Connor is able to use the literary device of Characterization between the characters of the Misfit and Grandmother to further…

of these works both validate and deviate from traditional society. Within the texts, these stories explain the nature of social messages and validate the social values of its time period. The first example of this is in Danticat’s stories. In the short story “Quality Control”, the first evidence I noticed was…

In Crowd versus Outcasts In today’s society many people of all age groups and races-feel an immense desire to fit in to the world around them. This need to be alike kills the sense of individuality that used to be sought after, and creates the feeling of being an outcast. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of an outcast is “A person who has been rejected or ostracized by their society or social group.” This definition paves the way to understanding the true meaning of a…

The author of The Lottery, Shirley Jackson, makes use of symbolism throughout her short story to get her intended purpose across to the audience. Throughout the storyline, the image of the “black-box” is mentioned approximately 20 times. This box plays quite a large role in the plot of the story in that the pieces of paper inside of it ultimately determines the fate of one the villager’s lives. Whichever individual draws the sheet of paper from the black box with the black dot on is plagued with…