Story of Sinuhe

The house is a so called trap and if you die on the premises then your spirit is stuck there. Murphy has also made a story line along with this “murder house.” Tate, a teenager who was a mass murder at his school, was killed in the house and is now stuck. Violet, the teenage daughter who just moved into the house, has now fallen in love with Tate. Through stress and anxiety…

Heritage is something that is handed down from our ancestors, it is a tradition. In the short story, Everyday Use: For Your Grandmama, Maggie and Dee view these traditions in extraordinarily different ways. In order to understand their views, we must understand the characters. Maggie, the sister of Dee, is a nervous, uneducated young black woman. Because of a past tragedy she views herself as ugly. She never received the same education her sister, but I am not sure she truly wanted it.…

The short story that I found to be most interesting in the aspects to elements of fiction was called “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author uses many strong elements that help grant the reader the full picture of the story from many different angles. The unique way F.Scott Fitzgerald is able to shift his dictation and syntax brings the reader to morally question things going on in their own life, producing provocative ideas and new ways of thinking after reading the story. The…

There are several underlying themes throughout The Chrysanthemums, but the ultimate theme is gender inequality and the oppression of women in society. This short story by John Steinbeck is about a thirty-five-year-old woman named Elisa who has an intense love for gardening. Although she is a great and extremely capable gardener, she is forced by her husband to apply her skills only on the tasks that are dictated to her role as a woman in society. As a result of this, she is forbidden from…

In the short story “The Lottery”, the author Shirley Jackson writes of a small town presumably somewhere in the United States where an annual ceremony is held. In the lead up to the ceremony Jackson depicts the atmosphere in the town as the people prepare for this ritual that is known as the lottery. Jackson doesn’t mention throughout the exposition of the short story what the lottery exactly is but we find that there is an uncertain atmosphere surrounding the ceremony. In the preparation she…

and to tell me that he’d had a short story published. He said he remembered that I was “in the writing scene” in high school, which cracked me up. Our graduating class was 60 kids, the whole high school under 200 kids, and I never saw any “scene” that I was aware of. However, it touched me that he thought I was a writer. I felt guilty –I had recently written a short story for fun, but I wasn’t “really” writing anymore, and I still wasn’t reading. I read his story, and I told myself that I would…

“Where are you going, Where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, is not a clear-cut story. There are many ways to interpret what is happening because of how complex and sophisticated the scenes are. To summarize what happened briefly in the story is that the main character Connie is being stalked by this guy named Arnold. He follows her first when she’s on a date with this guy named Eddie and then backs to her house when her parents are away at a barbeque. Arnold, asks her to come with him in…

Education and social class was something that just clicked in my head when I heard of the two concepts a few years ago. Now in college when I revisit these themes of life and read the articles about them in the book I can look at it in another way. In my first M1 essay I learned a lot of things about myself, mostly how I need to improve. In the first essay I learned that I need to improve my into paragraph a lot. It didn’t not even have a good hook, something to grab the reader’s attention.…

battling against human conspiracies and/or demonic possession -- or is he going insane? On the flip side, this subgenre can feature an insane protagonist, such as a tormented serial killer. One of the stories I have read that presents psychological characteristics is “The Lottery”. This short story by Shirley Jackson is about a small town in the middle of nowhere that celebrates a really creepy and weird tradition every year to take care of the crops of corn, the tradition consisted in a lottery…

studying in the U.S., and we would paint the most satisfying picture. One of our favorite story is learning English in a highly modernized classroom with other…