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Mary Flannery O’ Connor mostly known as Flannery O’Connor, a real Southerner and a great writer who is known for her vivid short stories. Personally, A Good Man is Hard to Find and The River caught my eye and left me with a mark. Her style is known as Southern Gothic and her stories are very similar amongst one another. Indirect characterization is used heavily in The River and A Good Man is Hard to Find. O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1995. O’Connor was only child and lived…

The Symbols in Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Minister’s Black Veil” “The Minister’s Black Veil”, one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s first published in 1836, have the reputation of been one of his best short stories during his life as a writer. The ambiguity of “The minister’s Black Veil” have been criticism exaggerated in the modern culture but more in some religious for the fact that they consider that the Reverend Mr. Hooper reflects the antichrist. Some scholars, particularly William Bysshe, have found,…

Heart Throughout her stories, O’ Connor, has hidden meanings of her viewpoints on southern identity. O’Connor’s style of writing has deep meaning because she was raised in the south, and she expresses it through characters for the most part. In her short stories “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, “Good Country People”, and “Revelation” there is much hidden meaning in the characters that show their southern identity such as dialect and appearance. Throughout O’Conner’s short stories, the characters…

in times of strength and of weakness. Some of the most important bonds are of those between family members. In the short story, the Red Convertible, by Louise Erdrich, there is a brotherly bond between two Native American brothers. This story is meant to show the reader how tight bonds really are and how different objects and events can symbolize the bond. The bond in this story is the personal bond between brothers Lyman and Henry. The two brothers invested their money into an old red…

Bandwagon is a term used to describe a group of people who participate/like a certain thing only due to the fact that it is currently popular. The towns’ people in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, may not particularly like the Lottery game they play every year; however, proceed along with this game due to the fact everyone else does. It takes a special kind of person to swim against the current and to speak out on what she/he believes. Tessie becomes alienated because she is different from…

or what it is about she does state that the person is chosen at random. The use of symbolism, Shirley Jackson uses the setting, names, and even the objects to give the reader clues on what the lottery is really about throughout the story. In the first part of the story, Jackson paints the scene by giving the reader vivid details of the setting, “Fresh warmth of a full-summer day; flowers blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green” (Jackson, 1). Jackson wants the reader to think that it…

A “Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a strong regional and ethically expressed story written from the perspective of a senile elderly woman named Phoenix Jackson. Ms. Jackson undertakes a journey every year around Christmas to the city of Natchez in order to attain medicine from the doctors to help heal her grandsons inflamed throat. Though she undertakes this journey in the hope of helping cure her grandson’s condition it becomes clear through the text that her grandson has died and she is still…

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin examines the constraints of marriage from a nineteenth century point of view. Chopin cleverly disguises her feminist perspective in this story by concealing her true motives for the conservative audience that would have read this during her time. Chopin did not identify as a feminist, however, the content of her writing is packed with liberating female characters and ideas that were radical for the nineteenth century. As a result “The Story of an Hour” was…

A lottery ticket is a voucher for a prize but not a voucher to end a life. Normally people would be so enthusiastic if he or she had won the lottery. As for the short story, “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson is a different type of lottery; everyone is expecting to see a villager gets execute. The idea seems to be absurd by persecuting an innocent citizen but it’s a tradition to these villagers because everyone has to participate and not question about it. As for the black box itself, it…

Romanticism Washington Irving, the first American writer achieves fame in Romantic literature, through legendary stories such as “The Devil and Tom Walker” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Irving captivates his readers with his ability to twist minds by teaching valuable lessons through Romantic fiction. His spooky story about a “Headless Horseman” and the characters in the story demonstrations the movement of Romanticism. Romanticism is when a treatment of a subject is emotional rather than…