American short story writers

Like European authors the American ones used the elements of this style for the purpose of enriching their works. Writers of the time were unable to write the masterpiece without depiction of the elements of Gothic literature including the settings, dreams full of mysteries, serious cries to show the reality of the spoken time under the cover of humor, irony, sarcasm, metonymy. Especially short stories attracted the attention of majority people of the time with their…

When writing a short story, the details an author chooses to include are just as important as the details he or she excludes. An author often incorporates a variety of stylistic tools in order to strengthen the story’s message. They purposefully weave symbols into their stories that represent something larger than the simple material object. A writer uses his or her narrative style to intricately build meaning into the narrariation of the story. When constructing a story, a writer creates the…

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INTRODUCTION- LIFE AND WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Allan Poe represent the first great literary generation of United States of America, this was the Romantic period in American literature. The Romantic outlook in case of novels was expressed in the form of romance but romances were not love stories. The protagonists of the American romance were generally haunted, alienated individuals. The isolated and alienated characters in the tales written by Poe were unknown and mysterious…

place in different time periods, “Hills Like White Elephants”, by Ernest Hemingway was written In in August 1927 and “Good People”, by David Foster Wallace was published on February 2007. Both short stories are about a man trying to have their girlfriend go through with an abortion. However, not…

Through the portrayal of a hysterical character, apart from highlighting the atrocious attitude of Indian society, Lahiri seems to emphasize the role of sex in the healing of physical deformity and mental retardation. Bibi Halter is a protagonist of the story who suffered from a baffling desease. Although a long period of period of suffering, humiliation and indifferent attitude of the relatives has emanciated a Bibi Halter physically and mentally, the fire of sexuality burns as intensely in her…

The short story, “In the Kindergarten” was written by a Chinese-American writer, Ha Jin. He started to write when he studied in America. Ha Jin was born in 1956 in the northern Chinese city of Jinzhou. He has grown up during the Cultural Revolution 1960s. He joined the People’s Liberation Army when he was fourteen-year-old and could only continue his studies at the age of 21 when the colleges were reopened. He furthered his studies at local universities and was majoring in English. He started…

Tina Whittle is an American author best known for writing a series of mysteries the most popular of which is the Tai Randolph mystery series of novels. Her short stories have been featured in Mystery Magazine by Alfred Hitchcock, and in The Savannah Literary Journal. The short story Lost Causes and Other Reasons to Live was also featured on Gulf Stream and was the winner of the 2004 Mystery Fiction contest. She is a two time Georgia Author of the Year Award nominee and is a member of the Sisters…

He published a list of eight rules which he thinks makes a good story. One of the rules says that “Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.” In one of his other rules he mentions, “Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading character, make something awful happen to them(...)”. While…

most famous being “The prisoner of Zenda.” Anthony Hope only wrote one short story “The Philosopher in the apple orchard.” He Had many jobs open to him being well educated but his favorite was to write stories. The reader can see that the story does reflect the author. Hope was well educated but preferred to keep to himself leaving a law career so he could focus on writing his stories. (Elwin 171) Anthony was a great writer most of his life. He was the younger son of Reverend Edward Connerford…