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    for Emily William Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily” is an outstanding literature masterpiece revealing the secret “nooks” of the human heart in general and the heart of Emily Grierson in particular. This story touches, shocks, makes feel disgust for the town’s people and arouses mixed feeling for Miss Emily. The structure of the story, the depth of the personality analysis as well as the element of suspense immensely contributes to the message of the story. The analysis of the character of…

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    impacts their lives by making the individual become unreasonable with their winning to the extent that they quit their duties, hobbies and even their jobs and rather prefer to be addressed as the one who won the lottery. ‘‘The Lottery Ticket’’, a short…

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    My short story’s name is “The Crane Man” set in the Great Depression in Vietnam before the August Revolution. The story targets the farmer class during the Great Depression. It discusses about ordeals, which they had to go through, as well as the forlornness, which they had to bite their lips and endure. The story is narrated in first person point of view, which is the view of The Teacher. Peculiarly, characters in my story do not have specific names. They are called by their characteristics,…

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    “Endless Summer” Rhetorical Analysis In the short story, “Endless Summer” by Rick Bragg he explains how the season of summer, favored by children, is “truncated” by those who “do not know how sweet it is to feel the mud mush between their toes”. In Calhoun County, Alabama the boy in the story is said to be wasting time playing in the mud but the way he sees it kids now are the ones wasting their summers away. Kids now already are deprived of their whole summer by having to start school in…

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    towards the environment, surroundings, and future. During the past few weeks, the class of ENC1001 has been reading interesting poems and short stories. “Cathedral”, “Story of an Hour”, and “Mending Wall” are some of them, and all three pieces can be analyzed through the lenses of the Big Here versus the Small Here. “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is a short story of a man who seems to be very threatened by his wife’s blind…

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    Literary Analysis of Short Story Everyday Use Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” was published in 1973 in the collection of stories, “In Love and Trouble.” It has become very popular, and probably the most anthologized of her stories (Winchell 80). “Everyday Use” is a short story told in first person by “Mama,” whose name is Mrs. Johnson, an African American woman living in the deep South with one of her two daughters. Through the use of setting, plot, and symbolism, the story is about the…

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    What is the chances someone in today’s world wins the lottery? I believe that essentially everybody needs to win the lottery nowadays, however it was not generally that route particularly in a residential area in New England. "The Lottery", a short story by Shirley Jackson that happens in a rural community in New England which customarily holds an annual lottery to guarantee a decent crop yield to reap during the summer harvest. The victor more like the unlucky person of this lottery confronts a…

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    Joyce Carol Oates, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O 'Connor, and “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry. First, the short story "Where Are You…

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    people may find his work difficult to understand but with the right mind others see it as a way to change the world we live in. In Herrera’s short story “The Objects”, he writes about a rat and a louse in a world of classification. He uses these characters to tell his audience about the truths of this cruel and unjust world we live in today. In his story, he refers to the world as a building and the higher you are in this building the more powerful you become. In our world today it is the…

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    The true story of Anne frank Affected me in many ways. The story of Anne for me was a story of happiness, depression, fear and Love. The story was also very sad especially at the end of the When the whole family dies except for Mr.Frank. This story was also very sad because of the setting and because what was going on during that time period. When Hitler was trying to find and kill all of the Jews to make his perfect race, and all of the jews had to hide and fear for their own lives every…

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