Story of the Year

Ladder” to “You Found Me” At the beginning of the story “The Last Rung on the Ladder” by Stephen King, the narrator exposes the reader to background information. The story mainly focuses on “the barn accident”. At the time, Katrina, also know as Kitty by close friends and family, was eight years old and her older brother, Larry, also the narrator was ten. When their parents would leave, they would go out into the barn and climb to the third story of the hay loft. Larry and Kitty tried to hide…

author who has been honored with numerous awards from her written stories with different perspectives people can relate to. Cisneros wrote “Eleven” to reveal a child’s thought during her birthday on while she is at school. The Mexican-American novelist, Cisneros, captures a universal childhood problem in her story, “Eleven” by centering the story on a child named Rachel. Published in 1991, “Eleven” is a popular, coming-of-age story because it reveals raw emotions Rachel feels when she faces…

Warner was saying, "Come on, come on, everyone."- The Lottery by Shirley Jackson These two charismatic short stories called The Lottery and Button Button, are written engagingly about different murders, but diverse in the way the murders occur. One major similarity in these two stories are the mystery boxes in each story that shows symbolism. The Major difference between the two short stories are the sense of which the murders occur by tradition opposed to one’s selfishness.…

to get access to the latest story. Dozens or hundreds of people wait at the front of Movie Theaters, book stores, video game stores, or anywhere else these stories can be obtained, just to spend more and more money watching or reading or playing the new story. I was one of these people during my growing up days. I was always excited for the next book,…

It is not uncommon to find stories that contain violence, death, pain, monsters, or curses. The themes of Grotesqueness and Mystery propel the short stories: “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, and “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga into what is known as gothic literature. The recurring theme of Grotesqueness is evident in these gothic short stories with vile depictions of gore and decay. Irving’s short story, “The Devil and Tom Walker”…

thought that a story from hundreds of years in the past and a story from hundreds of years in the future would have two characters with so many similarities. Huckleberry Finn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Jonas from The Giver are more similar than you think. They also have several differences. The first thing to be compared are the stories themselves. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place in the 1840s while The Giver takes place sometime in the future. Both stories are…

the earth today. In these three stories “A Clean Well-Lighted PLace,”“The Red Convertible,” and Limestone Diner.” Each story talks about someone's life and what plan God has created for them. A Clean Well-Lighted Place talks about a drunk man and how one does not care what happens to him. The Red Convertible is based on two brother create a tight bond and is split up due to one going to the Army. Limestone Diner is about a girl that gets in a wreck twenty-nine years ago and someone has a wreck…

Bergeron is a short dystopian story written by Kurt Vonnegut. The story takes place in the year 2081 under a socialist US government. The story states that ‘to achieve mental and physical equality amongst all Americans, the government uses torturous handicaps on their citizens’. To keep total socialism, the government has had to arrest the ‘extraordinary’ Harrison Bergeron; who symbolises defiance and teenage rebellions with conflicting views on the government, throughout the story. For someone…

Kancil : Good or Bad? A few years ago, when I was nine or ten years-old, I was familiar with nursery rhymes and bedtime stories. Every night, before going to bed, I used to have a bedtime story from my father. I listened to him seriously, until I felt asleep. My father is my most favorite comedian, and he told a story before we went to bed. At nine o’clock, he would sit down in front of us and told the same story about a family which consist of four people: They are the old man (aki-aki), old…

disagreements. This is shown in the short stories, “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan, which is a story of a young girl named Waverly who falls in love with chess and becomes sort of a local celebrity. The short story “The Interlopers” by Saki which is a story of two families in the middle of property feud. And finally “The Bet” by Anton Chekov which is a story of two men a Banker and Lawyer who make a two-million dollar bet on solitary confinement. These short stories all have different plots, but…