Shirley Jackson

15 FLEA MARKET SECRETS; НОW І FIND ТНЕ BEST VINTAGE PIECES How tо shop аt а flea market: Scoring thоsе killer pieces саn bе challenging, sо hеrе аrе sоmе tips tо help уоur flea market trips gеt less, well, trippy. І lіkе thе flea market. Also, thе sky іs blue. It’s ma thang, thоsе flea markets. Раrt оf whу I’m good аt іt іs bесаusе I’ve bееn dumpster diving аnd thrift store shopping sіnсе І wаs оld еnоugh tо spot mу fіrst brass animal. It’s іn ma blood. Вut іt doesn’t hаvе tо bе іn уоur blood tо…

“The Devil and Tom Walker” and “The Devil and Daniel Webster” are both brilliant literary works that present the danger of greed and the misuse of wealth. Through the main characters’ follies and rash decisions, it sets up the story to give the readers an idea on how quickly wealth can become bad. Both short stories include the Devil and views of wealth; however, there are numerous differences within the text. Alongside the differences, there are also many similarities. Throughout the story many…

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,…

There is a diversity of ways as to how an author may want to illustrate an idea or concept, many of which use a varsity of literary devices to accomplish the transcendence of the message to the public. Ernest Hemingway is an author who immensely succeeds in transcending our perspective of the symbols and context clues into something beyond the words we read on the page. The “iceberg theory”, mastered by Ernest Hemingway, gives way to the idea that less is more, and that we, as an author, only…

Authors use mood to make the reader feel a certain way while reading the text. The short stories “Back Roads” by Vinnie Rotondaro is about 2 friends that are traveling from New York City and take the backroads because they are more beautiful. “A Winter's Drive” by ReadWorks is about a man taking a trip across the US Canada border to go to the house he grew up in to get his hockey cards. When the author of a text describes in detail the setting of the text it makes the mood even more superior.…

In “ The Lottery”, the lottery is compared to other entertaining events in the town. Mr. Summers, who had ability to handle civic activities, managed the lottery as the square dances, the teen-age club, the Halloween program. (Jackson). It’s weird that a murder is categorized with entertaining events that are like Halloween and square dance. In the same manner, in The Hunger Games, the government and even other civilians of Panem have an optimistic attitude towards the game that…

“Don’t judge a book by its cover”. Is a lesson that a lot of people have learned after they judge. Stories are also short stories not just to distract people, but also to teach something. In every single story, there is always something to learn. Stories can make people dream and imagine. It may also be seen and gain knowledge about other cultures in different aspects. The stories are sometimes made to understand and not just judge. Those words that are in the books can make people change their…

Title: Milo’s Miracle Milo looked up at the sky. It was a hot, clear day with the boiling sun blazing down. He wished to be selling lemonade at a stand or riding his bike down the street with the other kids. Instead, he was getting water from the well. Milo and his mother were not very rich. As matter of fact, they were poor, with very little money. Milo did chores all around the house helping his Mother as much as he could. His Mother was usually working hard doing different jobs to make…

O.Henry’s unique style was often reflected in his work. One element of his unique style was situational irony. This means that his stories had surprise endings or sudden, surprising plot twists. In the short story, “After Twenty Years” by O.Henry, Bob, a criminal, believes that he is reuniting with and old friend, but he finds that the man he was walking with is not who he thought he was. “You’re not Jimmy Wells,” (228). This shows situational irony because Bob suddenly finds out that he has…

In River Hymns, specifically “Dirt Cakes” and “Southern Silence,” Tyree Daye depicts Youngsville as a small, rural, white majority with racial divisions -- racism. He has a place in the town amongst all of the problems, along with family and friends. The adults in the family have to let loose and forget what has happened throughout the week with drinking and dancing. This shows the backgrowling work that they are forced into and in a bad working environment. He writes in a way that is not happy…