Story of the Year

The story of Rip Van Winkle, Rip Van Winkle lives in modern day America before the American Revolution. His village is a pleasant village, at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains. He has Dutch Ancestry and is a story teller for the children. He is lazy though and his farm is falling apart. To get away from his wife he goes and finds a Dutchman drinking something and he drinks and falls asleep. He wakes up after twenty years and only his daughter recognizes him. The first mythical…

William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897. Faulkner was the oldest of four children. When Faulkner was five years old, his father decided to move the family to Oxford, Mississippi. During his childhood, the adults around him would tell him stories about the civil war, slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, and his family history. A favorite tale among his family was of his great-grandfather, after whom he was named, who was a successful business man, writer, and war…

Jackson is a story of a village who follow a tradition ever year. The tradition results in death for one of the villagers. Just because it's a tradition and what is known in that town does not mean it has to be. The central idea of the short story can be seen through the conflict in the story. One type of conflict is person vs. society. This is true because at the very end of the story Tessie says "it isn't fair." This displays how she really believes that the tradition they hold every year is…

Odyssey, by Homer is still being read by teenagers many years after it was written because of the stories ability to encourage imagination, teach students and encourages hard work and determination. “Homer’s illustrious language may bring scenes from his epic poem, “The Odyssey,” to life, but looking at art inspired by the story is still a fun extra” (The). The colorful and imaginative works of art showcase the imagination throughout the story. The pictures inspire teenagers showing them that…

Performance on the story called An Offer He Couldn’t Refuse, by Jennifer Armstrong. At a very young age Jennifer Armstrong knew that she was going to become a writer. Armstrong grew up in Salem, New York, and later in life graduated from Massachusetts’s Smith College. Once out of college, Armstrong began her writing career. Before she started writing her own books she started out as a ghostwriter for a successful book series. Jennifer Armstrong wrote the book called The American Story: 100 True…

self-designated books. Francine Rivers’ story, The Shoe Box, is centered around a child by the name of Timmy O’Neil and the raggedy brown box he carries by his side at all times. Francine Rivers mentions before the start of the story how she formulated this book based directly on her own experiences. The overall purpose of this book was to convey the message that Jesus is always with us through whatever we may be going through. Therefore, the main thesis of this specific story was to essentially…

gained from perusing works of such authors as Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, among others. In 1941 he turned into a paid essayist when the mash magazine Science Stories distributed his short story, ¨Pendulum¨, and he was a full time author before the finish of 1942. His initially book ¨Dark Carnival¨ was an accumulation of stories…

the short story created by Annie Proulx, the overall category of it could be described as a love story. The story is about two people who take a job and work together over the summer. The two people who at first start as just friends end up falling in love and having sexual a sexual relationship throughout their summer together. The two end up going their own different ways because despite their hopes, they know their love would never be able to work out. This is the basis of the story…

essay we are going to discuss the types of conflicts in the three short stories ‘A LETTER FROM GAZA’ by GHASSAN KANAFANI,’AFTER TWENTY YEARS’ by O. HENRY and ‘THE SCARLET IBIS’ by JAMES HURST, we have read. Mostly stories that u have read or seen as movies or serials, have a conflict, problem, struggle, difficulties, oppositions as the heart of them. The conflict is an essential or very important element of the story. A story does not necessarily have to end with a resolution, but it does need…

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer My rating: 5 of 5 stars The House of the Scorpion is an incredible novel and is one of the best, if not the best, book iv 'e ever read. The story of the novel takes place in the fictional country of Opium, a dystopian independent country between the US and Mexico. The story centers around Matteo Alacran, a young boy and the clone of a the ruler of Opium (and drug lord), whose name is El Patron. Matteo is treated as sub human throughout his child hood…