Pulp Fiction

In the short story,”That Dumb Space Movie” by Lucie Britsch demonstrates the thematic tension of when something happens to somebody close or a colleague, to ponder about it and think of something that can fix it but can’t overpowers just forgetting about it and moving on accepting that something is wrong. The story starts off with the narrator talking about how they had to wear their costumes to work because they were having a Halloween party that night. The boss, Kevin, calls the narrator…

“The Cellist of Sarajevo,” written by Steve Galloway, is a story that takes place in the capital of Bosnia, shedding light on the true story of Vedran Smajlovic, and touching upon the importance of shedding light in times of darkness. One of the main themes that stood out to me during the story was heroism. Despite all of the other significant themes that arose from the text, heroism was the strongest. The Cellist himself was used as symbol for heroism and another character the author used to…

Have you ever noticed similarities in stories you've read? That’s because they all use the same sort of techniques to portray their topic. For example, My Life as a Bat (Story One), by Margaret Atwood, Hope for Animals (Story Two), by Jane Goodall, and An Astronomers Poem (Story Three), by Walt Whitman; are put together in a specific way to make you understand their theme. All three stories are similar in how their text is structured and their tone, but differ in their use of language. They…

Compare and contrast how the two female charters are presented in the stories “Veronica” and “The Necklace”. In the stories Veronica and the necklace, the female characters Veronica and Madame Loisel are represented in many different ways. In both the stories, the writers explore the theme of fatalism. however, the characters view it differently. With both the stories being written in different times and places, it might affect how a woman is brought up and what opportunities she is granted.…

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Words mentioned by the writer Jonathan Swift in his book called Gulliver’s Travels. However, this is going to be focused on his other popular handiwork called A Modest Proposal, in which we can observe how he is able to see the unseen and critiques the wealthy through it. Swift was born in Ireland in 1667, and thanks to his job as private secretary to Sir William Temple, a retired Whig diplomat, at Moor Park in southern England he…

Lamb to the slaughter is a short story, written by the author Roald Dahl in 1953. This story is exposing a young couple in the late 1979 who was living in a lovely house and a peaceful environment. All parts of the story is about the family Maloney. However the main character, the antagonist: Patrick Maloney did twisted the story at all. Also the author, used a lot of tips to introduce the story such as: a written short story and a video. In this short story, I will compares how read the short…

Blood Wedding was written by Federico Garcia Lorca in 1932 and was first performed in 1933. Blood wedding was inspired by a story Lorca heard that came from Almería. There a bride ran away with her cousin. Her cousin was then murdered by the bridegroom’s brother. Given this inspiration Lorca went on to write a play that continues to be popular to this day. The play is full of various themes, themes that everyday people can connect to. It also contains climactic scenes like majority of good plays…

In the short story Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes, a boy named Roger tries to steal a purse belonging to an older woman by the name of Mrs. Jones off her. Although the boy was young this did not stop Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones from stopping him or teaching him a valuable lesson. There are multiple questions the reader should have, I know I had a ton. “Does he put her out?”, “Does the police take him away?” or even “Why did she do what she did to teach him a lesson. Instead of…

Introduction (Situation, Problem, Approach, Theme) John Updike’s story, A&P, takes place in a small, conservative New England town. The time of year is during the summer, sometime around 1960. Most of the story is set in a small, local A & P grocery store, where the narrator is the cashier. The narrator’s name is Sammy, and he is nineteen years old. When three girls in bathing suits enter the store, he watches them as they make their rounds through the aisles, judging them and making…

Gimpel was a fool in a different way Gimpel the Fool is a short story written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story is about a bread maker, Gimpel who lives in a small town somewhere in Europe sometime in the early 20. century. Everybody consider Gimpel as a fool and give him seven sobriquet. The people from the town make cruel jokes at Gimpel’s expense. The folk thinks he belives everything they tell him because Gimpel does not say a single word, for example: I do not belive you or You are lying,…