Short Cuts

Whether it is the tingle you get down your spine, or the anxiety about the unknown, gothic stories always interact with the reader like no other genre, keeping them intrigued and enthralled. Both Night Circus And the short stories had similar gothic elements that created a feeling of tension and mystery throughout. To Begin, The story a Rose For Emily and Night Circus share a similar gothic element of mystery. In Night Circus there is many unsolved mysteries and events that lead to a sense of…

story, “Section A is the most typical, uncomplicated, most unrealistic scenario that results in a happy ending.” By the end of the short story the readers can notice that the conflicts are different but the endings stay the same. The author stereotypes the two main characters by gender, causes the reader to focus on the plot and includes symbolism and irony through the short story. When people think of fairytales they imagine a princess and prince charming but that is not the case here. John…

Michael Keaton), a faded Hollywood actor best known for playing the superhero "Birdman.” Thompson is sick and tired of being known as “Birdman” or “That guy who played Birdman.” So Thompson writes, directs, and stars in a Broadway adaptation of the short story by Raymond Carver What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Thompson has to deal with narcissistic…

In the short stories “Prey” by Matheson, “The Black Cat” by Poe and “The Feather Pillow” by Quiroga all have a common theme. They all depict the main elemental themes of violence, death and the predominance of grotesqueness. The authors integrate these elements in an attempt to use illustrative means to exemplify the horrors found inside the story itself. Gothic literature is fairly rampant with stories of death as many authors use that theme intrinsically throughout their stories. In the…

written, the rest is not given straight to the reader, but the meaning is there. Much like an iceberg, with the majority of it underwater. This theory is demonstrated effectively through Hemingway’s short stories. Hemingway’s “A Canary for One” is a prime example of the use of his Iceberg Theory. The short-story is full of vivid descriptions with true meanings that may slip through the reader's mind during their first reading. As revealed at the end of the story, the woman and her husband are…

“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin and “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway are both linked together, not quite by the message they both carry, but how each protagonist character display their obstacles throughout each short story. The protagonist in “Sonny’s Blues” and in “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” each face struggles in their lives, which in some circumstances is the basis of each story. Although these stories did not give the direct point of view of each protagonist; it is…

dolly movement, cutaway shots, cross-cuts, and jump cuts to explain the history of Margot Tenenbaum's life, creating a sense of curiosity and understanding for the audience as they learn about her past, but are unsure of her current relationships with Eli and Richie. Also, the editing helps to depict the physical transformation of Richie and highlight his mental instability when he cuts himself, creating a sense of tension,…

Sliding Doors (1998) explores the two distinct outcomes of the life of a woman who misses her train. Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow), the woman in question, is fired from her PR job for trivial reasons and goes to take the train back home. In one outcome, after missing her train, she walks back to the street, calls a cab, and goes home after a couple delays, to her boyfriend Gerry (John Lynch) who comforts her after her tough day. In the other, she catches her train, meets James (John Hannah) then…

consequences of love are that when two people love each other they are willing to risk anything for each other. In the story, Della wanted to buy a gift for her husband, but she didn't have the money to afford it. After reading a sign, she decided to cut off…

For the second book conversation, I choose to discuss the short story, The Elves and the Shoemaker. The author of The Elves and the Shoemaker is Freya Littledale. Littledale was born in 1929 in New York City, NY. Littledale has written many stories. Some of these stories include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Boy who Cried Wolf, The Snow Child, and The Farmer in the Soup. The Elves and the Shoemaker is a story about an older couple who became very poor. The husband is a shoemaker who finds…