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The Resurrecting Power of Stories The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a fictional story that exhibits love, loss, war, coming-of-age, innocence, and so much more. O’Brien explores all of these themes through an even bigger topic: storytelling. He also inversely picks apart the various aspects of storytelling via the smaller themes. One of the products of this analysis that I find to be most intriguing is the resurrecting power of stories. O’Brien asserts that stories have the capability…

value. In the short story, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, Jackson took the meaning of the lottery and put a dark twist to it. Jackson gives an everyday feel to the story as if the annual ceremony “the lottery” is a peaceful day for the towns people. The reader infers that this is a positive outcome based on society’s understanding of what a lottery is; however, the lottery takes an unforeseen twist that turns deadly. Tessie Hutchinson is a character that is focused on in the story. Tessie…

James Baldwin’s “Sonny Blues” and Katie Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” are two short stories showing conflict characters feel as though they have been release free from. Baldwin’s character Sonny conflict with his family not understanding his life struggles and was release by the show of him playing jazz music to help them understand. Jazz music was used to help reveal the stories. The character Louise Mallard from “The Story of an Hour” had the conflict of being not her own person and viewed…

Narrative perspective, also called “point of sight”, is the angle, postion and viewpoint of the narrator applied to observe and narrate stories. (邵萍萍， 廖小云 ) It is widely used in the modern narrative works cause it can helps to arouse interest, conflict and suspense, so choosing different perspectives can make differential effects. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde consists of nine chapters, and each chapter has a brief subtitle to summarize the main plots. In the first seven parts, Stevenson chooses to…

Sisters with Different Aspects In the short story “Everyday Use” Maggie and Dee are two sisters but are different from each other. Both have different personalities such as things they have faced throughout their lives. The sisters grow up together with their mother by their side, but they both grow up with different things on their minds. Maggie is a girl that contrasts herself from her sister after she had an accident: “she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely ashamed of the burn…

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a short story that was written in 1989, that outlines the difficulties with a mother and daughter relationship. A young girl name Jing-Mei Woo who is the main character in the story was a vulnerable nine-year-old girl living in a home with her mother and father. Jing-Mei deals with the high potentials of her mother, to become a genius. After losing everything in China, her mother moved to America for a better living. Jing-Mei shares her mother’s thoughts about America on…

states that Sedaris’s “stories require more than twenty drafts to get right.” I could not rewrite a story that many times, but it must be satisfactory for him otherwise it would not be a part of his process. Another part of it is that he wants to balance humor with sadness, because he says that every humorous story needs “sorrow to give the laughter a bit of weight.” I disagree with this; a story can be solely made to evoke laughter, but those are not the type of stories Sedaris creates…

The short story “Obliging” by Lorrie Moore is a very well written story about a girl named Patty. Patty has a mother named Joyce and a father named Ray. She also has three other siblings whose names remain unknown throughout the story. Patty is the oldest and the tallest of the three, but she isn't the most clever. Patty is very competitive and seems to enjoy her life through sports, which the family thinks is odd because the rest of the siblings find an interest in art. School sports is what…

Gulliver’s Travels is a strange but interesting book. Throughout the book, Gulliver meets strange and interesting people. His travels included different types of strange lands that when he came back no one would believe him until Gulliver should the items he came back with. The men would be in absolute awe. When out on his travels each one of Gulliver’s encounters in the different lands was important and it always showed a different perspective on our dear friend Gulliver. Starting with the…

Fiction can be a great medium to tell stories that invoke deep emotions and thoughts within the reader, despite taking place in a fictional place these stories can often be seen as another reality. Some stories can even give real details about the writer, as well as detail a scenario that one can relate to. In her short story “The Moths”, Helena Maria Viramontes details the life of a young woman disgusted by her lack of femininity in her abusive family’s eyes, the woman is overwhelmed by her…