American short stories

The two main characters in the short story, "Two Kinds". Are the mother and the daughter. After facing the unimaginable in China, the mother moves to American to start over and gives birth to her daughter, the protagonist of the story. thought-out, the daughter's life, she encounters several things that she necessary didn't want to do. Learning the piano, dealing with high expectations later in life, and then realizing the gift that her mother gave her after the mother had passed away.…

In the letter to the Woman’s National Press Club, written in 1960 criticizing the tendency of the American press to sacrifice journalistic integrity in favor of the perceived public demand for sensationalist stories, American journalist and politician Clare Boothe Luce exhibits an accusatory tone through her use of syntax, employs ethos in the fact that she is also a journalist just like her audience, and arouses pathos through directly attacking journalism but also incorporates the positives…

the words. Stories can have the same theme, but they have different influences on the person reading them. Many things can differentiate stories which have the same theme such as writing style, mood, wording and much more. Most stories don’t have the same emotion because of the different reasons why each one was written. A numerous amount of stories can be written based off of the theme of family and relationships and three disparate authors take us on a journey with their poetry and story to…

American Dreams written in 1974 is an anecdotal story an amusing short story set in a quite 1950s provincial town in Australia; the town resembles Bacchus Marsh the town in which the author Peter Carey grew up. The story was written in the early days of globalisation. It’s a town of the main highway which begins to attract tourists who come armed with cameras and money but it turns out they expect the townspeople to remain frozen in time, just as they were when their portraits were taken.…

and fell in love with a nurse named Agnes Von Kuroki when he was sent to an American Hospital in Milan (Magnum). Hemingway returned…

Shirley Jackson is one of American author who critically celebrated the short story of “The Lottery” because it is hard to ignore by everyone, they either loved it or hated. This story has an ability to create a very sad emotion in almost everyone who reads it. It is one of the stories that seems as much fun to think but very emotionally to read. This Story uses contrast when the author describes the difference between what the audience notices and expect and what actually happens. She also…

The Verbal Style of the Brownies The short story “Brownies” by ZZ Packer is about a group of Brownie Scouts and their experience at camp Crescendo. As the story unfolds, the group of African American girls tries to escape the watch of their evangelical troop leader so they can beat up troop 909 for calling Daphne a “nigger”. It is unclear whether troop 909 actually said that, however; the Brownies carry through with their plan and confront troop 909 in the bathroom. To the Brownies ' surprise,…

wrote a story about his stay in that hospital. In another country is what Hemingway thought when noticing the cultural differences because he was an american. He also wrote “Death in the Afternoon” in Italy after retrieving remains of women that were in a blast accident. Disguising himself in one of his own stories as an nameless american soldier. This story represents a dark but inspiring point in his life. Hemingway takes his most inspiring life experiences and creates a realistic story that…

society and were stereotyped to stay home, make babies, be a good home maker and wife. The 1940s were different, life for women was expanding, the men were at war and someone had to step up and take the men's place. In literary works, such as, “The Story of an Hour”, “The Storm”, “A…

In the short stories “Saving Sourdi”, by May-lee Chai, “Fences” by August Wilson and A Small, Good Thing by Christ Church.They both tell about different cultures and different situations they faced. Though the families are different in race, culture and time period they are the same. The love these families show may seem different to others but are very much alike. The short story “Saving Sourdi” was based around the Asian culture. Sourdi’s little sister tells the story of her bigger sister in…