Shorts

These days we read ten short stories, half are traditional short stories, and another half are modernism short story, By reading the first five short stories, I can see some features of the traditional short stories. Title is the center of the short story, a good title can tell you the main content of the short story. The writers of traditional short stories always use the protagonist or some important thing in the stories as the title. “Eveline” and “The Pious Lady and The Gray Friar” use the…

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…

Reading shorts stories lots of facts can be found throughout the story. Short Story give you facts and information just like novels but they are a lot shorter than regular novels. The author who wrote short story are KAP,Wi and NH. They all write similar stories they also have a lot of differences to it as well. They all have different ways they like to describe their characters as well and describing their setting and other literary devices and which I will be talking about. The paper that I’m…

In 2012, Destin Daniel Cretton penned and directed his first feature length film, Short Term 12. Following the lives of employees working at a residential treatment facility in California, Short Term 12 offers a pensive albeit uplifting glance at both the at-risk teenagers living within the facility, as well as the employees taking care of them. There are countless reasons to enjoy this exemplary film, such as the way nearly every character is written to be believable, and complex. Another is…

to death? In the short story, “The Welcome Table” by Lee Martin from his collection, The Least You Need to Know, explains a seventeen year old boy experiencing this first hand, by displaying the atrocious acts on colored people. I assume he wrote this short story to exhibit how it was in 1960, during the sit-ins at restaurants, petitioning for the integration movement or the Civil Rights movement. The sit-ins from the Civil Rights movement were remarkable; one example is the short story, “The…

In my opinion, I honestly thought that Reeling for the Empire was one of the creepiest short stories I have read in a very long time. For example, having someone basically kidnap you, lying to the guardian of that girl, and then turning you into a silk worm. That is very unusual. Next, I think it was a little rushed at the end. Also, I questioned a lot of the ideas in this story. My first question is why did you choose the setting in Japan and at a sweatshop? You could have chosen any place and…

The two short stories The Red Room, and The Monkey’s Paw are two stories the give the mood horror and mystery. The two stories are told in one third person and the other in first person. The author in The Red Room tells this story in first person, the author is using his main character in the story to help with the mood for the reader to feel what the main character is feeling. In the story The Monkey’s Paw in third person to help the reader's mind go the way he wants it to go. In the short…

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 thematic comparison of several short films of the romance genre present a stylistic interpretation of romantic relationships at various stages in the relationship spectrum. Three specific short films show both the evolution and deterioration of relationships and romantic love within genres like science fiction, drama, and comedy. All three of the shorts in this essay provoke emotion on different levels but have a similar message. The short films WORLD OF TOMORROW, INERTIAL LOVE, and GEORGE…

question you might be asking is, “What do these stories and authors all have in common?” The common themes amongst these short stories will go against each other to argue the themes of Devotion and Prayer, Love and Passion, and finally Dreams, Hopes, and Plan. In the first comparison between “Little Miracles, Kept Promises” and “Mrs. Sin,” the common theme between the two short stories is Dreams, Hopes, and Plans. In both of these stories, the authors use this theme and many others to grasp…