A Different Story

In “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood reveals six different scenarios about two main characters named John and Mary. She begins with scenario A to show a version of a perfect fairytale story, “Section A is the most typical, uncomplicated, most unrealistic scenario that results in a happy ending.” By the end of the short story the readers can notice that the conflicts are different but the endings stay the same. The author stereotypes the two main characters by gender, causes the reader to focus…

Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” the plot is about a drawing in a small town where the results of the lottery are not quite what the reader would expect. The town picks up stones and pebbles to contribute to the outcome of the lottery. Everyone in the town must attend the lottery and each family must draw one paper slip out of the black box. The family that draws the slip of paper with the black dot on it must draw again for each person in the family. In this story, there are many different…

Rikki fought with help from Darzee and advice from Chuchundra. The storyline, setting, and characters are very similar in both mediums of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, but there are some differences in those topics. The storyline in some places is different in the story, then that of the movie. It states in paragraph 7 on page 144 that “They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-Tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished, he went out into the veranda”…

in a story. The environment can help specify important information. Setting can also be very descriptive as in a dark place or a bright sunny day. Setting also helps you understand the story more. It can also effect the behavior of a character and how that character is feeling that day. When writing stories most writers need to know the world where their story takes place. The way writers make stories more interesting is they move scenes and do not stay in one place. For example the story “The…

In the short story “Sonny’s Blues”, the author James Baldwin writes in first person point of view and begins the story by revealing his little brother has been arrested and is in prison for being involved with the very addictive drug, heroin. Sonny was a smart kid growing up until his older brother, the narrator, joined the army and his parents died before he entered adulthood. The narrator of the story took on a parental role towards Sonny after their parents had died but soon after lost touch…

the topology of space and time, different narratives can interact with and comments for each other. For instance, when the character telling a story to someone else in one narrative, there occurs another narrative. And the comic can show the two narratives via showing the time, scenes, characters and other elements of the two stories in different panels in turn. In this way, the reader can get the information of both narratives, even though they are with different space and time. In the…

Flowers for Algernon When creating a book or a movie, there are different decisions screenwriters and novelists have to make in order to convey the story well. We see this in action in the story Flowers For Algernon because it was mad into a movie. Let’s discuss the differences between these two very different things. The first difference that I noticed was in the movie, the screenwriters had to configure the fact that charlie was really dumb into the screenplay so it could convey like it did…

In the stories, “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Ronald Dahl and “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, there are undeniable points of comparison and contrast. The stories both have significant titles and include a female killer; however, the stories are set in different time periods and the murderous women have different motives for murder. To start, both stories have significant titles. In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” the leg of a lamb was used by Mary Maloney to kill her husband. This is…

Journal 3 My Journal 3 assignment was to read two short stories. These two stories are very different, but both seem to take you through the lives of people. Although these two stories a different, they both are about different cultures. One story is written in third person, while the other is a narrative. The short story This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona written by Sherman Alexie takes place on a Indiana reservation in Spokane, Washington. The two main characters are Thomas…

The short story version of “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacob is very similar to the video version of “The Monkey’s Paw” a film by Ricky Lewis Jr. There are many different reasons to why the movie and short story are similar. First off, in both versions of the story they both use the monkey's paw and make the same wishes. This is very important to the story because if they didn’t make the same three wishes the stories would be completely different. For example, if they didn’t make the wish to…