Anton Yelchin

Dishonesty is a common theme in many works of literature. The denotation of dishonesty will be: When one person is deceptive either by intentionally withholding information or by making a false statement to another with the intent of deceit. In Natsume Sōseki’s 1916 novel Kokoro and Mark Twain’s 1884 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main characters have to deal with the dishonesty that occurs in their friendships. In Kokoro, Sensei, after losing everything to his uncle, thus making…

No matter where a person may come from, everyone encounters a similar journey. The journey that is heard in stories is symbolic to what anyone may go through in life. In the story “A worn path”, an old women goes through many obstacles as she is on the pathway to acquiring what she sought after. In order to better convey the hero’s journey in the story A Worn Path, Eudora Welty uses characterization, symbolism, and conflict. In the story characterization is used to describe the main character…

Depending on the experience one has it can influence their writing Their writing could be similar to someone else's writing if they went through the same experience. This is the case with the following stories. "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov and "Adventure in Paris" by Guy de Maupassant have similar aspect such as the affair, the setting, their iniating their relationship, however In the "Lady with the Dog", the protagonist, Dmitri, travels to Yalta. He encounters Anna, the lady with…

Introduction This essay will be an examination of the minimalist elements in the two short stories, ‘They’re not your husband’ and ‘Neighbors’, by Raymond carver. There will be an emphasis on the thematic issues of body image and materialism in the two short stories. Chapter 1 Minimalism Minimalism is a movement in the arts; it arose in the 1950s and was characterized by simplicity and massive forms. Even if minimalism arose in the 50s it was first later, that the term would be used in…

The short story, “Birnam Wood,” by T.C. Boyle, explores a young man Keith’s fractured relationship with his girlfriend Nora from first person point of view. Keith reconnected with Nora by sending her “wheedling letters begging her” to come back to him, and she eventually obliged. They lived together in a rebuilt yet cramped chicken coop that had “creeping and greasy” mold on the corners, and no heating. Displeased with their living conditions, and faced with yet another dilemma -- seeing…

Sometimes reading stories and poems might get difficult. Students often have the sense that when a professor gives out an assigned reading he or she just has to skim through the pages and act if they have read it completely. Yes, they got some detail from the story, but did the story or poem get them thinking? In an article written by Sujin Shin he states the following “freshmen will buy 69 percent of their books. However, they will only carry one to two books to their classes each day and will…

At this point in the story Anna and Dmitri are more alike than they ever were, both are living in secret and lying to their love ones. Author Anton Chekhov goes on to write “They forgave each other for what they were ashamed of in their past, they forgave everything in the present, and felt that this love of theirs had changed them both.” This is a strong indication of how Anna and Dmitri have…

The Swimmer by John Cheever, is a short story, written in the late 50’s, early 60’s. The story takes place in a high class suburb, and is an extreme metaphor for the life of drunkenness and negligence. The story is about a mid-aged man named Neddy Merrill. One Sunday, after a drunken Saturday night party, Ned is found drinking and laughing with his wife and other close friends. He decides to swim the eight-mile route back to his home, bouncing from one pool to another. But as the tides change,…

In Katherine Mansfield’s short story “Miss Brill” the main character feels like “Life is like a play.” Every Sunday she goes to Jardins Publiques, but on one particular Sunday it hits her that it is all like a play and she is just one of the many actors/actresses. From the band playing along and the same people showing up to many little aspects that Miss Brill pulls together to explain why it is like a play. Every Sunday of the year the band plays in Jardins Publiques. On this particular…

In 1947, John Cheever wrote a short story titled “The Enormous Radio” about the darkness that is hidden inside others and inside us. He does this through a masterful use of symbols, contrasting Irene and the radio, and dynamic character development. The radio and the protagonist of the “The Enormous Radio” are symbols demonstrating the journey to self-awareness. Cheever conveys this message through the journey of the dynamic protagonist, Irene Wescott—who begins this story as a naïve middle-aged…