Short Story Analysis Essay

This short story anthology is a collection of stories, which show step by step plot driven stories that follow traditional plot, but also being bad and dark, leaving the reader with a disturbing image, which does not replicate what many short stories are written about today. The stories I choose to include in my anthology are: “Where are you going Where have you been” by Joyce Carol Oates, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, “The Other Place” by Mary Gaitskill, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’brien, “Jumper Down” by Don Shea, “Jens” by Ross Nervig and Encounters with the Unexpected Animals” by Anthony Johnson. All these stories share a dark element within them making them all connect, leaving a perfect fit for this anthology.…

Analysis and interpretation of Rudyard Kipling’s short story “Lispeth” The short story “Lispeth” is about the Indian Hill-girl Lispeth, who, ever since her parents died of cholera, is a half-servant, half-companion for two Englishmen; a priest and his wife. The story deals with many issues, such as identity crisis and unrequited love, but most of all a critique of Christianity and on the Western mindset towards the natives. The point of view in this short story is a 3rd person point of…

The author’s voice consists of the style and tone of the story. Boom! (Frame 10) It’s only the beginning of the short story, “The Shabbat”. The Shabbat is set up like a cartoon you would read in a magazine or a newspaper. It has not only words but pictures as well to help the author tell the story and put the point across for the readers. This would be considered the author’s voice. Marjane Satrapi whom is the talented author for, “The Shabbat”, choose this as her style for this particular short…

You can find tales of monsters in every culture . The Boogeyman tale , and about an article from Scientific American that analyzes all kinds of monster. The author Stephen King in his short story “ The Boogeyman “ explains how the boogeyman is a very frightening monster that should be feared. He tells this spooky tale by explaining how Lester Billings was traumatized because the boogeyman…

In every short story theme is the key to understanding the true meaning the author is trying to get at for the reader. The reader will acknowledge the theme all throughout the short story, from the beginning to the end the story will come together to form the theme. Today the reader will focus on three stories and tell what the theme is for each of the three short stories. The three stories are “The Story of an Hour”, “Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been, and “Doe Season”. The theme for…

theme can always change and make so much impact on a person’s life it just depends on the person behind the words. Stories can have the same theme, but they have different influences on the person reading them. Many things can differentiate stories which have the same theme such as writing style, mood, wording and much more. Most stories don’t have the same emotion because of the different reasons why each one was written. A numerous amount of stories can be written based off of the theme of…

Jacob Layton Eng-102 April Dolata October 15, 2014 Short Story Paper The villagers of a small town gather together in the town square on June 27 for the town lottery. Every year on June 27 the lottery is held and everyone must be in attendance if they are physically capable. In other towns, the lottery takes longer, but there are only 300 people in this village, so the lottery takes only two hours. Village children, who have just finished school for the summer, run around collecting stones.…

The story "Apocaltptigirl" by Andrew Maclean takes place in post-apocalyptic world. The main charters in the story are Aria and her cat Jelly Beans. In the beginning of the visual novel we see the Aria going through a city full of vegetation growing in the buildings. Aria seems to be working on a robot, but later in she tells the story between the fighting of the graybeards and blue stripes. Later on the story we find out that that her mission is to find some type of object; however, she gets…

The Scars of Ka’s Father “Scars are stories, history written on the body [sic]” Anonymous. In the story “The Dew Breaker” the narrator is Ka, a girl who created a sculpture inspired by her father. Her father is an older man from the country of Haiti, who has a scar on his face, from what Ka believes he had got from falling off the bed and onto the floor. As the story continues, Ka learns the truth about her father’s scar and all the history behind it; which is a much darker story then she had…

all posses certain elements that make them “short stories.” In Marie de France’s Breton lay (or poetic narrative), “Eliduc,” a knight named Eliduc has his fidelity challenged by a princess that he meets in his journey away from his wife. Though this piece of literature was originally written as a mere poem, it possesses some elements that are common to modern day fictional narratives. Though this Breton lay lacks some of the elements usually present in modern fictional narratives, it still…