Horror short stories

Heart Throughout her stories, O’ Connor, has hidden meanings of her viewpoints on southern identity. O’Connor’s style of writing has deep meaning because she was raised in the south, and she expresses it through characters for the most part. In her short stories “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, “Good Country People”, and “Revelation” there is much hidden meaning in the characters that show their southern identity such as dialect and appearance. Throughout O’Conner’s short stories, the characters…

together in times of strength and of weakness. Some of the most important bonds are of those between family members. In the short story, the Red Convertible, by Louise Erdrich, there is a brotherly bond between two Native American brothers. This story is meant to show the reader how tight bonds really are and how different objects and events can symbolize the bond. The bond in this story is the personal bond between brothers Lyman and Henry. The two brothers invested their money into an old…

Bandwagon is a term used to describe a group of people who participate/like a certain thing only due to the fact that it is currently popular. The towns’ people in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, may not particularly like the Lottery game they play every year; however, proceed along with this game due to the fact everyone else does. It takes a special kind of person to swim against the current and to speak out on what she/he believes. Tessie becomes alienated because she is different from…

or what it is about she does state that the person is chosen at random. The use of symbolism, Shirley Jackson uses the setting, names, and even the objects to give the reader clues on what the lottery is really about throughout the story. In the first part of the story, Jackson paints the scene by giving the reader vivid details of the setting, “Fresh warmth of a full-summer day; flowers blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green” (Jackson, 1). Jackson wants the reader to think that it…

A “Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a strong regional and ethically expressed story written from the perspective of a senile elderly woman named Phoenix Jackson. Ms. Jackson undertakes a journey every year around Christmas to the city of Natchez in order to attain medicine from the doctors to help heal her grandsons inflamed throat. Though she undertakes this journey in the hope of helping cure her grandson’s condition it becomes clear through the text that her grandson has died and she is still…

A lottery ticket is a voucher for a prize but not a voucher to end a life. Normally people would be so enthusiastic if he or she had won the lottery. As for the short story, “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson is a different type of lottery; everyone is expecting to see a villager gets execute. The idea seems to be absurd by persecuting an innocent citizen but it’s a tradition to these villagers because everyone has to participate and not question about it. As for the black box itself, it…

Romanticism Washington Irving, the first American writer achieves fame in Romantic literature, through legendary stories such as “The Devil and Tom Walker” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Irving captivates his readers with his ability to twist minds by teaching valuable lessons through Romantic fiction. His spooky story about a “Headless Horseman” and the characters in the story demonstrations the movement of Romanticism. Romanticism is when a treatment of a subject is emotional rather than…

taste of success came when he won “a short-story contest with his [story] ‘MS Found in a Bottle’” (Introduction II). He would go on to publish hundreds of short stories, poems, book reviews, and thoughtful essays, but he would never, during his lifetime, achieve the level of success his first contest win provided. Poe’s lifetime was one of tragedy: his dad left him at birth, his mom died when he was a toddler, and he was eventually disowned by his adopted…

their minds. Through Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women, editors Carmen Esteves and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert display a selective amount of tales written by Caribbean women, addressing a variety of contemporary issues. Due to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus’ Voyage of 1493, the Caribbean is now home to many different dialects. The difference in linguistics is evident throughout the stories in Carmen Esteves’ Green Cane…

The Lottery was written in 1948 by seasoned author, Shirley Jackson. The short story, originally published in The New Yorker, is about a small village of roughly three hundred citizens that gather in the village square. They are there to participate in the yearly lottery to see who will be stoned to death. Whole families are present to participate, even the children help by gathering the stones that will be used. The lottery consists of two sets of drawings; the first one to be done by the head…