Rebbie Jackson

Comparison of “The Most Dangerous Game” and the “Young Goodman Brown” This essay will compare two short stories: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown and Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game. Works do not have similarities at the first sight. Stories are about a century apart (were published in 1835 and 1924 respectively), have different plots, types of characters and conclusions. However, it is possible to make a comparison and find both similarities and differences in these stories.…

In reality, a mood is to help the reader get a feel for the story. The mood also helps with the setting and how to get a feel of how the story will evolve. And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie, is about ten people who get invited to go to an amazing island. However, they are invited by unknown guests. When they arrive, their host, Mr. Owen, is nowhere to be found. As the days go on, each person gets killed. By whom, is to figure out. The deaths of each person correlate with this poem,…

In the story “The lottery” by Shirley Jackson the point, moral and theme of the story is a dark and cruel because it says that the townspeople stoned her due to the fact that there is overpopulation and it was a brutal way to remove someone from the village which is the irony that this story has. The tone of the story in the beginning of the story seems to be nice and smooth, the mood feels calm and gentle with nothing to fear. For example, in the beginning of the story everybody is happy and…

Rhinoceros, written 1958, and published 1959 is one of Ionesco’s most popularized plays. It opens on a usual Sunday in a town, where abruptly a rhinoceros is sighted twice by the townspeople. Initially some wonderment is expressed about the strangeness of this happening, but eventually a great deal of discussion is devoted to whether the two sightings were of the same rhino or of two different ones, and whether the rhino(s) belonged to the African or Asian species. Soon it becomes evident that…

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, tells the extraordinary story of the walking miracle, Owen Meany and his friendship with John Wheelwright. John met Owen because he was the “runt” of their little league team. One tragic day, Owen hits a foul ball which strikes and kills John’s mother. Owen helps John with coping and grieving, which brings them closer together and they form an unbreakable bond. Together they learn life lessons, test their friendship, and discover new things about…

In "Captivity," Sherman Alexie retells the historical backdrop of European venture into North America and the expulsion of Native Americans from their conventional grounds. The story appears to claim that Native American history as we probably am aware it rotates around Mary Rowlandson. Toward the start of the story, Alexie quotes Rowlandson's 1676 account, in which she was caught by Indians, one of whom "gave me a biscuit, which I put in my pocket, and not setting out to eat it, covered it…

The present study is based on the analysis of diaspora and nostalgia experienced as the major theme by the characters of two selective stories such as, When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine and The Third and Final Continent in the short story collection “Interpreter of Maladies” by award winning Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. The paper begins with a brief introduction about diaspora, Jhumpa Lahiri and the book “Interpreter of Maladies” (published in 1999). The introduction is preceded by defining…

The song trying to be cool by the indie band Phoenix was an important hit in 2012. The band originally comes from France and the writer is Thomas Mars. Trying To Be Cool became one of the most popular songs because of its meaning, swing and lyrics that all represent a very trendy stereotype of how a man ‘hits’ or seduces a woman. Throughout the song Mars uses literary devices such as metaphors and symbolism to describe how he entices a woman. Most importantly, it shows the struggle he has in the…

the lottery by shirley jackson is a short story based on a small town conducting a "lotery" that decides on whether or not who lives based on a simple draw from a box. The reason behind this, whether it be to help the crops grow or to prevent overpopulation, is unknown. Thankfully our society has adapted to be rid of thses horrible traditions, but maybe not entirely. Meaning, maybe our society still has eome of those same awful traitions that are based on ignorance, bigotry, and even religion.…

Some books are different but they can also be very similar. The book “The Lottery” wrote by Shirley Jackson is about a rural farming community that is forced to have a drawing every year to choose who is stoned to death as a sacrifice to bay for the other villagers sins. The book “The Hunger Games” wrote by Suzanne Collins is about twelve different districts have an annual reaping every year. One boy and one girl are chosen from each district and all twenty-four people go head to head in a…