Short Story Essay

The plot of the short story “By the Waters of Babylon” is set in the near future after the destruction of industrial civilization, the story is narrated by a young man, who is the son of a priest. The priests of John’s people, the hill people, are a curious group of people associated with the divine. They are the only ones who can handle metal collected from the homes of long-dead people whom they believe to be gods called “dead places”. The story follows John’s self-assigned mission to get to…

own experience, doomed to repeat the same fateful moments year in and year out. I would recommend that the theme gleaned this story is that we should carefully consider…

Essay After reading “Catch the Moon” and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant one can conclude that the two stories have similarities and difference. The short story “Catch the Moon” is about a disobedient teenager named Luis who works off community service hours at his dad’s Junkyard but when he was stalling to clean hubcaps that his father wanted him told him to do a girl named Naomi came to the Junkyard and asks Luis’s father to search for a specific hubcap for an old vintage car and when…

In the short story “The Giving Tree,” you will find many meaningful quotes, so much so that scholars have long debated the true meaning behind the story. As a reader, this book becomes open to the individual reader’s own interpretation. Someone once said, “Running away from your problems is a race you will never win.” I believe this quote is true to this story and to life in general. About halfway through the story, the boy is old and has been beat up by life and just wants to run from his…

the short story “Under the Radar” the main characters are Steven Reeves, protagonist, and Marjorie Reeves, antagonist. Steven Reeves depicts a round character. He, a college graduate, married Marjorie at a young age and is committed to his job. Steven lacks intelligence in the common sense category. For example, he was naïve about Marjorie’s year-long affair with a man he idolized. Steven also displayed some callous feelings toward Marjorie which, turned into a violent scene later in the story.…

In Sarah Ellis, Gore short story, Amy the story’s protagonist uses her intelligence to outwit her brother Lucas into getting her book back. Amy made it evident in the beginning of the text that getting her stolen book back would not be a simple task. She states “I use whatever counter-weapon I have at my disposal.” (Ellis 2). Although Amy knows she cannot compete with her brother Lucas’s strength she finds her own way of outsmarting him by devising a plan/strategy in which she gets him out of…

The short story “Abitibi Canyon” by Joseph Boyden consists of several important principles of Indigenous people that I would like to make connections in three different ways. The connections I have chosen are issues that I learned in school, hear of and personally encountered with. Making connections from prior knowledge deepens people’s understanding of problems that others may deal with on a daily base. In today’s society, it is human nature to judge others by their actions and…

just one of many stories I could share of the subtle or not-so-subtle jabs I have heard and experienced simply because I am female. If this small story seems inconsequential, I ask you to do one simple exercise. Rewind. Replace my…

In the short story ´´The Parsley Garden´´ a turkish immigrant named Al Condraj learns the consequences of his actions mentally, and physically. From this altercation he realizes that his self worth is all he needs. In the past this story takes place in North America in the early 1900s in it starts with Al Condraj finding a hammer on the floor, his only desire was to build a bench. He did not realize he was committing a crime. Al says ´´I didn mean to steal it´´. Al Condraj felt guilty of this…

is the main theme in the short story I have recently read called “The day it Happened.” When I first read the short story, “The Day it Happened” my first thoughts were of some drama you would see on television a since the story is written from the perspective of a young girl and it started off with her describing her hair washing routine. The author certainly gave it the soap opera type of feel with the way she described the characters. When I got to the heart of the story, however, I found that…