Andre Dubus

On the surface the story is about a family that is preparing to travel to a party for some relatives. The real story that comes out is not the story of the festival but of the affair the father is having with a Puerto Rican woman. The story is told from a first person perspective of Yunior. Yunior is the middle brother and has a problem of becoming nauseous when driving in his father’s new VW van. Yunior in the middle of the story recounts to us information about an affair that his father is…

known as “diaspora” is the dispersion of people exiled from their homeland by war, famine, and other hardships to other places. While Andre Dubus III did not experience a slaughtering of his people, he certainly experienced hardship living in poverty in the pre-upswing “Queen Slipper City of the World” of Haverhill, Massachusetts in the seventies and eighties. Dubus said in his talk that when the first left the city as a young adult that he swore to never come back to Haverhill again because the…

historic subplot is used in “IND AFF or Out of Love in Sarajevo”. The settings play a major role in both stories. Love, revenge and regrets; one story ends with regret avoided other ends in regret. The “Killings” is a short story written by Andre Dubus. Dubus uses a standard…

audience through many ways including foreshadowing, conflict, and the climax. Creating suspense in a story usually involves foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is a hint of what is to come without revealing any important details. For example, in Killings by Andre Dubus, the author foreshadows Richard Strout’s violence towards Frank when Strout beats Frank after finding out he was dating Strout’s ex. Later, Strout kills Frank for the same reason. In Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs uses foreshadowing to…

the sitter of the other child. 2. The sitter omits that it was her experiences in the German concentration camp. 3. The sitter omits this because Felicia is still innocence. 4. The knowledge of the reader is that the story happen to the sitter. Andre Dubus: A Father's Story 1.…

you or seeing what they go through. The three poems that are being analyzed are “The Victims” by Sharon Olds, “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “One Last Poem For Richard” by Sandra Cisneros. The two short essays are “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus and “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin. The novels that are Hamlet and Pride and Prejudice. All of these show a family structure in different ways and some show gender roles as well. In the poems, short essays and novels you will see the family…

along with his thoughts and who he truly was. When facing a difficult situation, a person must be careful about how they react, for it can change their lives forever. The impact of a decision is also represented in the short story, The Killings, by Andre Dubus, when the main character kills the man who murdered his son. Both stories related in a way that made the reader wonder why the characters did not think about…

Two men walk to their graves in two deadly tales of people striving for justice. In the short stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, and “Killings” by Andre Dubus, two men kill the man that brought them grief in order to feel justice for the crimes committed against them. Both of these stories have a common theme, justice, and it is used in both similarly, such as, how they brought their victims to their death, how each man felt prior to the killing, and the pain that killing…

Unfortunate events throughout life have adverse effects on the psyche, therefore, life needs purpose and meaning. Rituals can bring order to an otherwise chaotic life, or create an environment of confusion. In Andre Dubus’ “A Father’s Story” and William Hoffman’s “The Question of Rain,” rituals help the main characters keep up appearances because of indiscretions, or preserve tradition in light of opposition. People develop everyday rituals to keep from focusing on troubles of life or to…

in these separate stories are equal in their love for their families, even if their way of showing it is as different as day and night. We will explore the story Fences written by August Wilson in 1985 and discuss the story Killings written by Andres Dubus in 1979. While going over these stories we will compare the male protagonists love for their families and the similarities and differences in what they consider to be the obligations they have to their families. As the reader is introduced to…