Slash fiction

In the short story Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes, a boy named Roger tries to steal a purse belonging to an older woman by the name of Mrs. Jones off her. Although the boy was young this did not stop Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones from stopping him or teaching him a valuable lesson. There are multiple questions the reader should have, I know I had a ton. “Does he put her out?”, “Does the police take him away?” or even “Why did she do what she did to teach him a lesson. Instead of…

Introduction (Situation, Problem, Approach, Theme) John Updike’s story, A&P, takes place in a small, conservative New England town. The time of year is during the summer, sometime around 1960. Most of the story is set in a small, local A & P grocery store, where the narrator is the cashier. The narrator’s name is Sammy, and he is nineteen years old. When three girls in bathing suits enter the store, he watches them as they make their rounds through the aisles, judging them and making…

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,…

In The Scarlet Ibis, symbolism is used as a main story telling element. It expresses the character, Brother’s, feelings toward all that happens, and shows his connections to events taking place in the story. In the story, the character called Brother learns to deal with his feelings of hate, embarrassment, and hope for his little brother, who he calls Doodle. He also has to encourage and push Doodle to become normal and fit into society. Brother at the end has to cope with the events of his…

A literary work exists because of society. Literature is a written work and relates to the society, they cannot be separated. Through literature, we could see how the author depicts the society and their social circumstances. Therefore, literary work is the reflection of the real life. It can describe the events in our life, and also contains the stratification which indicates that literature and society is closely related because literature expresses the situations and problems existing in…

Many times in writing authors will use symbolism so they can convey different aspects to the reader. Symbolic elements in writing could be anything from an object, a color, or even a person. In the short story “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich, there is a great deal of symbolism. The story is about two brothers of Native American descent who live on a reserve in North Dakota. The two brothers buy a Red Oldsmobile with the money they earned from their jobs and go on many adventures together…

In Kate Chopin's short story ¨Desiree's Baby¨, Irony is the main point of the story. Situational Irony is shown throughout the story. This starts with the unknown past of Desiree and concluding with the realization of what Armand had done to his wife. In the story it is stated between context of how the racial superiority is for the family's name. Armand once said how much he adored and loved his wife, but later led her to kill herself along with their baby. ¨That is, the girls obscure origin.…

Toni Morrison is a black African-American novelist of 20th C whose novels show and record a brief history of African-Americans of the early times of the 19thC. She became the first African-American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Toni Morrison shows us the troublesome circumstances within which the slaves were forced to live, the dark aspects of humanity, and the destructions that are delivered to their lives through her novels. She has attempted to show the past of slavery,…

A Negative Experience In this poem, it is decided whether or not a father treats his son well or not. The poem conveys a very broad spectrum through the ways that the son is treated and the items that are discussed. It seems like the son is unsure of what is going on throughout the story and during the events that occur and are discussed, the context seems to change that idea a few times. “My Papa’s Waltz” written by Theodore Roethke displays a negative experience for the child through tone,…

Pedro Paramo: In-depth analysis of the novel through the image of protagonist. What happens to a person who gave a vow to his mother that he would find person he had never met in his life? What if this person is his father? How does a hero react when he finds out about the uncountable number of bastards and a legal child of his father? How does the “trip to his legacy” change him? How does he react when he finds out that his father is a pure devil? To make matters worse, what if the town of his…