American short story writers

“Light is like water,” I answered. “You turn the tap and out it comes.” This excerpt from the short story, “Light is Like Water,” displays the optimistic attitude that the children obtain, regardless their current location. The story, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was published in December of 1978. Amid the publishing of the story, many Latin American writers incorporated political views into their literary works. Marquez strayed from the politics and mainly focused on magical realism as an…

during the time period rendering him relatable to readers and a development to an understanding of his motives and actions. The reason however that this story has caught the attention of so many readers in the past and in future generations is due to the fact of the antagonist, the old man in the forest, or with a better understanding of the story the devil himself. Knowing of such an evil entity grabs the attention of the reader as to how Brown will deal with the situation that he is involved…

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story and fairytale author, poet, essayist, and editor. She has often been praised for creating characters that speak their mind, especially those who were grammatically incorrect and improper. Although she disregarded the rules for children’s literature in the nineteenth century by creating these flawed, though loveable characters, children could identify with them more than the angelic children that other books shaped children of that time…

masculinity felt through his characters, but also through his writing style and certain things he intentionally places throughout the passage. The biggest contribution to the presence of masculinity in the piece is Hemingway’s main character, the American.…

in the story that references to The Nazi Party and Hitler. European literature had a theme of person vs. society and this was found by the use of hardship, discrimination, tone of no motivation. The hardship in the society with a common theme or tone in the selection poems and stories period when the hardship was found in the poem it has to do with the way the characters what life was like. In the all of them, they talk how some have to battle every day…

surrealism to contemporary modern art. When one compares the themes of Giacometti’s sculpture to Robert Wallace’s poem, it is possible to clearly identify simple forms have a lot of subtle details. There are many aspects that influenced the artist and the writer to create new things. Firstly, Alberto Giacometti was heavily influenced by the surrealists of the 1920’s and later found his artistic expression and his early life influences. His choices in the materials used played a part in his art,…

Howard Frank Mosher was an American writer that wrote literary fiction set in the North East. Mosher was born in Kingston, New York to Helen Emily Trapp and Howard H. Mosher. He referred to his hometown as a ghost town, a dying mill town where he spent most of his happy memories secluded behind his house catching trout from as early as four years. His father was a schoolteacher with wanderlust who moved the family more than ten times before Howard joined high school. However, the moving around…

“How much of life is a matter of perspective” (Walker). Alice Walker is a very well- known short story writer, novelist, poetic, second-wave feminist, civil rights activist and children’s book author. One of her most influential novels was the Color Purple, which turned into a motion picture in the early 1980’s. She is the only African American women to win the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Alice Malsenior Walker was the youngest of eight children, born in 1944 to sharecroppers in…

Stories are composed of few essential elements for it to come to live. Writers focused on having a setting, a plot and of course, characters. If a story fails to have any of these elements it would have no sense whatsoever. Characters are one of the most important elements for the story to come to life. There are many type of characters in the literature world, they can be a human being, an animal or even an imaginary figure. Writer’s use characterization to make a character come to live, they…

There are many factors in which make up a successful, yet compelling writer. William Sydney Porter known as O. Henry, was an American Short Story author. As he developed his writing career he became notorious for his writings to have the utmost unexpected twist endings. All through his writings the theme of love, deception, mistaken identity, the impacts of incident, the unchangeable idea of the destiny and the determination of apparently unsolvable challenges isolating two lovers is seen.…