A Different Story

likely pick it up and see what goes from there. So one day during my LIT 224 class I was going through the contents of our book and one story caught my eye, Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiri, I turned to the page the story started on and began to read. The story wasted no time getting someplace interesting, in the first page alone our heroine, who is named Miranda hears the story of a “wife’s worst nightmare”. She listens as one of her coworkers tells how her cousin’s husband had left her, he had found a…

1. What do you know about the mother of the story? Mama is the narrator of the story who is a rather large lady who works very hard to support her family. She is brutally honest of both her daughters, Dee and Maggie. She also seems resentful of Dee’s education since she fantasizes about them reuniting with her on a television show where Dee is very appreciative of her. 2. When we have a first-person narrator, we have to decide if she is reliable or unreliable. Do you trust this narrator? Why…

Throughout the span of this course we have read a wide variety of stories, many of them containing the theme of love. Love is feeling a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone. Everybody knows what it is like to love someone if it being a family member, a significant other, yourself, or even a pet. With most of the stories there were more than one instance where love was presented. There are so many ways to think about a situation and more times than not you can rule there is a certain…

thoroughly enjoyed how he showed that story is personal and comes from the experiences of one’s life. Such an idea, thus, further proves that story is an integral part of mankind. Furthermore, Sterling’s remarks regarding the formation of ideas provided me with a greater understanding of the definition of story. Yes, I believe,…

student’s names. Seeing the pennants immediately made me think of what Payne (2013) wrote, “spiritual resources provide a person with a ‘future story,’ which gives him/her hope for the future” (p. 9). Teacher’s had bulletin boards outside their classroom. They were decorated with items from the college they attended which I believe reaffirm their “future story”. The Kansas Report Card website (http://ksreportcard.ksde.org) provided useful information about the school district. The Wichita…

readers would predict that the story would have a feminist theme. And they would be right. However, the way that the story’s author, Susan Glaspell, establishes this theme is far more unexpected. On its surface, the story itself is a rather disturbing murder-mystery about a woman who is believed to have murdered her husband. However, observant readers will take note of the subtleties of the story that establish the theme. So, yes, “A Jury of Her Peers” is, at its heart, a story about women…

of writing known as realism is built around character, plot, and setting as every other tale created has been based around. In this genre, each one of these pieces in the form of a story has very important characteristics in them. The character, which is the biggest player I all stories as they rely on them for a story to actually occur, must be representative of the people that, during the time the piece was written, the general public may encounter in their lives and are able to relate to.…

Have you ever read a story blindly and just couldn’t understand it so you made assumptions about it? That is what happened to me. I recently read Tartuffe by Moliere, after my first read of the story, I thought it was not relatable, virtually impossible to ever happen, and just not funny. However, after understanding the cultural background, the life experiences of the author, and the author’s purpose for writing these stories, I now see this literary work as a strong satire that is relatable…

murderers. "Heavenly Creatures" is a sensitive retelling of the historic events, as this film has portrayed more of a story of the girls' and not how the they murdered the mother. Critics are divided over whether the new look has been successful, particularly the use of fantasy and the limited point of view. The use of fantasy in the…

However, as the reader gets deeper into the heart of the story, this is clearly not the case. Looking within the pages, one can see how Wharton uses irony to tell her tale. The irony brings the story to life and makes it an exciting, passionate story of romance and revenge. Wharton uses irony as a way to draw the reader in, with twists and turns and flare that make the story unique and addicting. Imagine the story without irony; it would be a story about a love triangle that ended in a pregnancy…