Short Essay on Milkman

Reading and Writing Outcomes A majority of the short stories read throughout English 101 were thought provoking even in the most obscure readings. Such stories include: Birdsong by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner. Both of these short stories provide rich text, set-up for interpretation, debate, and concrete critical analysis. They helped move the class along in terms of fulfilling not only the desired writing outcomes but also the reading outcomes as well.…

Essay 2: “The Cask of Amontillado” Analysis The darkest and most powerful force in the world is that of revenge. Revenge is the very emotion that controls and directs the actions of Montresor in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Cask of Amontillado”. The story follows a man named Montresor who plots his revenge on his companion, Fortunato, for disgracing his family name. Poe portrays this theme of the power of revenge through his use of literary devices such as allegory, symbolism, point of…

“Crazy Sunday” Rough Draft F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, “Crazy Sunday,” is the story of three passionate individuals and how their lives are intertwined and complicated on the first day of the week, Sunday. In life, Sunday is the most peaceful day of the week, but in this short story, it is ironically the exact opposite. Throughout this story, the lives of Joel Coles, Miles Calman, and Stella Calman experience disgrace, pain, and heartache. Because of insecurity, immaturity, and…

In my second critical reading exercise I wrote more than my last one. I included three paragraphs and I started off my assignment with, “In Sherman Alexie’s short story, “Indian Education”, includes many concepts of the genre conventions, such as being alienated from his society and feeling left alone to solve his own problems. However, Alexie also modified some genre conventions such as conflict of generations”. This introduction is different from my last critical reading assignment because…

The short stories, “Sex Education” by Dorothy Canfield, “The Other Foot” by Ray Bradbury, and “The Purple Horse” by Anne Schraff all have commonalities between the character’s actions and consequences. In the short story “Sex Education”, a woman named Aunt Minnie tells her story of an unfortunate event where she makes the decision to go into the woods after being warned not to. In the short story “The Other Foot”, the white people from Earth bomb their planet where they further ask the black…

de France, wrote The Lais- twelve short stories written around 1170. Marie de France 's lais, told in octosyllabic, or eight syllable verse, are prominent for their celebration of love, uniqueness of character, and vividness of description – hallmarks of the emerging literature of the times. Milun, among them, happens to be one of the most eloquent of the readings in arrears with the notion that Marie de France is trying to convey: Love conquers all. This short story revolves around love,…

the blossoming of a rose describes love itself. Love is so powerful that we are often blinded by it. In doing so, love creates rose colored glasses. It alters the world around us, making it appear lovelier than it truly is. For the narrator of the short story entitled “A Rose For Emily,” written by William Faulkner, death appears to be prominent. In fact, roses are hardly even mentioned. If we look closer, roses are used to symbolize Emily’s refusal to accept what is going on in the world around…

In the text, Le Guin uses Omelas to represent Americas political morality. The child represents the poor and lower class in the United States, as well as Americas perception of third world countries. “They know compassion. It is the existence of the child, and their knowledge of its existence,that makes possible the nobility of their architecture...They know that if the wretched one were not there snivelling in the dark, the other one, the flute-player, could make no joyful music as the young…

A motif is a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition. In ‘The Pearl’ one of the motifs is nature imagery. At the beginning of the novella Kino is very at one with nature. He is a pearl diver and he lives in a brush house, he works with nature to make a living. But as Kino changes he loses this connection with nature. Although in the book nature is often described as peaceful, and innocent - reflecting Kino’s innocence and peacefulness at the beginning of the…

Have you ever told a story, but adjusted some of the finer details in order to make it more appealing to another? People do this. It is just human nature to try and convince someone else that the event was genuinely intriguing. O'Brien does this within the storyline of The Things They Carried, by using metafiction to distinguish his storytelling and how to tell stories according to his thoughts. "By telling Stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down…