...1. The dangerous obstacles that people face in life can reveal their true personalities.2. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, written by Richard Connell, the protagonist’s true personality shows. 3. Rainsford, the protagonist shows that he’s an intelligent, tough, and observant character that faces many obstacles in this short story. 4. In this short story Rainsford’s main characteristics shined, and one of his best characteristics is that he is intelligent. 5. The Quote, “Swam……. I found it quicker than walking,” (Connell 112) helps shows Rainsford’s intelligent. 6. The quote helps show that Rainsford was in a tough position, being hunted on the island, but he thought through his plans of survival. 7. Rainsford shows his intelligent by using the resources available to him. 8. The quote, “I’ll give him a trail to follow,” (Connell 107) shows how Rainsford is trying to lead Zaroff away from his trail. 9. The quote also helps show that Rainsford is wise about his choices on the island. 10. Rainsford’s intelligent shows as he decides to try and use the island to benefit him instead of harming him. 11. Rainsford’s intelligent really shines through in this short story....
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...How Lucky You Are, is a short story written by Debi Alper. In 2012 - 566,000 people legally immigrated to the United Kingdom. As well in 2012, 41,482 foreign nationals was removed from within the UK under immigration law or deported. Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you to appreciate the things you once had. In our daily life, we take everything for granted. Education is a norm, rather than the exception, like it is in some countries. This is something that sums up todays living moral. Mostly every teenager, I include, do not think about what we have, and how easy we can lose it. Our main protagonist is also in this group, until he meets someone with a different point of view. The short story begins with an intro to Max, the protagonist in the short story. You hear about his school and his attitude towards it. The next element is a flashback to when his father left him and his family, Max is specifically mad about this, and this is clearly something that still troubles him. The story switches back into real time, where Max is laying in his bed, looking at his phone. On the phone is a picture of Max and a girl named Ishraqi. The next part is again a flashback to where the story of the picture is explained. The story behind the picture is that Max is “bunking” from school and meets two young women, Alexsa and Ishraqi. They are at the UK Borders Agency for at meeting. Max, Ishraqi and Alexsa start to exchange stories. Alexsa and Ishraqi’s meeting...
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...of the Lost Almost all mothers have a ‘protect gene’ for their children. When they hear about a murder, they start thinking ‘what if it was my child?’ This thought can make them want to be a hero and investigate the murder on their own. This is exactly what happens to our main character in this short story Land of the Lost by Stewart O’Nan. We do not know the name of our main character and that indicates how generalized she is. The short story is told by a third person narrator - and it is seen from the main character’s point of view: “Thank God, she thought. What would Brian say now?” (p. 11, ll.138) She is following a murder case very carefully. Her and her husband have broken up and her to boys are out of the house. She only has the German shepherd Ollie at home - so there is nobody to prevent or disturb when she is working with the case. She needs content in her life and something to do. The murder case takes all her attention - it gives her problems at her job, because she tells the customers about the case: “so much so that her manager had to ask her to stop.” (p. 8, ll. 4-5) The murder, James Wade, tells where the girl is buried - west of Kingsville - and the main character begins keeping a file. The main character of the short story keeps it all in secret - she does not tell anybody about it: “The first time was the hardest because she felt foolish.” (p. 8, ll. 11-12) she knows, that what she makes is not ‘normal’ for a woman like her. That is why she keeps...
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...A Fortune The short story -A Fortune- is made by the author Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi in 2000. It is called - A Fortune- for many reasons. One of them is because the narrator, a pickpocket, loves to collect fortune cookies. The pocket thief had reviewed a fortune cookie when the story begins. The fortune cookie says " A change in your daily routine will lead you to treasure"[1] . He follows the advice, and take a rich man's boy home. It was not to kidnap the boy, but the pickpocket saw the boy alone, and wanted to help. The pocket thief take the boy home, where the pocket thief show him his collections of fortunes cookies quotes. The boy and the pocket thief have a lot in common. The pickpocket felt bad for the kid, and give the boy all of his fortune quotes, while he keep saying " You're tremendous"[2]. He kept saying these words to the kid, because the kid's father did not appreciate his son. The boy's father only cares about the material fortune, a example from the story is where the boy dropped a bag filled with salmon and the father yell this to him "You stupid, clumsy! Do you know how much that cost!"[3] The father did not see what a fortune he has in the boy. The pickpocket knew that "That guy didn't need his credit card or cash or eelskin wallet. He didn't know what fortune he had anyway"[4] The story jumps from place to place and from time to time. It starts a Sunday but then it jumps to the past " I started pickpocketing when I was only five"[5] then to a description...
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...”The Order of Things” “The Order of Things” is a short story written by Judy Troy in 2007. The short story is a third person limited narrator. We see the short story from Carl’s life. We know what Carl is thinking, feeling and the experiences he is having. Carl is a middle-age man in the earlier forties. Carl is six feet tall, angular features, pale eyes and light hair. Carl lives together with his wife and his teenage daughter. His wife is a teacher, and the marriage seems to be perfect, until they move to Wortland where Carl meets Lily. Carl is the priest in Wortland, and the church and faith means a lot to him. Carl is a very shy man; he is split between what he is feeling and what he should be doing. The father of Carl taught Carl never to take chances, but to be prepared for what is next. Carl had grown up believing that was possible. Carl and Lily looks the same. They were each in their early forties, married to teachers, and they are both six feet tall, angular features, pale eyes and light hair, and they have each recently lost a sibling to cancer. In the years since Carl and his family arrived to Wortland, Carl had not been able to stop thinking about Lily. Carl is occupied in Lily; he is not able to think of other than Lily, he is noticing everything at Lily, and he feels that they had met before; Carl has that believing that it is the destiny that has brought them together. The first time Carl and Lily are together, they do it in a hotel. At first Carl is against...
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...Diction (Connotative, Denotative) * 6. Literary Devices (Techniques, Figures of Speech) * Miscellaneous elements: * Tone-attitude of the writer 7 * Mood-atmosphere or general feeling * TYPES AND FORMS OF POETRY 1. LYRIC POETRY- meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre -short, simple and easy to understand 8 A. Kinds of Lyric Poetry B. Sonnets- 14 lines with a formal rhyme scheme or pattern 9 C. Elegy- expresses lament or mourning for the dead 10 3. Ode- noble feeling, expressed with dignity and praises * TYPES AND FORMS OF POETRY * 4. Songs- poem w/ or w/o definite number of syllables and stanza and always accompanied by musical instrument * 5. Psalms- song praising God or the Virgin Mary and containing philosophy in life 11 * 6. Simple Lyric- includes a variety of poems with varying theme and characterized by subjectivity * II. NARRATIVE POETRY * -describes important events in life either real or imaginary 12 * -tells a story * -present dramatic events in a vivid way, using same elements as short stories: plot, characters, dialogue Kinds of Narrative Poetry: 1. Epic- extended narrative about heroic...
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...Grove 1. Write a summary of Grove in about 150 words. 2. Characterize the two main characters and their relationship 3. Comment on the ending 4. In a short essay (150-200 words) discuss what you can do to help a friend or partner who is an alcoholic. ------------------------------------------------- Summary “Grove” is an American short story written by Erin Brooks Worsley in the year 2006. The story takes place in Florida, in a town called Frostproof. The main characters are a woman and a man without any names. They are a couple in a relationship. In the story they are visiting his parents. The woman has a drinking problem. The man is married to another woman but is still in a relationship with the main character. They are going out on a lake where they have an argument about their future. The man really wants to have kids, and his wife is not able to. He would like the woman to stop drinking, because pregnant women do not drink. The man’s mom knows what all this is about and talks to the woman about the problem. In the end the mother asks the woman to leave. Characterize On of the main characters is a woman who is visiting her boyfriend’s parents for the first time. It sounds like she grew up in the city, why she is not used to mosquitos opposite to the man who grew up near a lake. In the story we hear about the woman’s drinking problem and how it conflicts with the man’s wish to get children. The woman is several times confronted with her problem...
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...A Tale of Two Cities is a book that should be read at some point in time during a teenager’s high school years. Personal and political dramas are deeply connected in Dickens’s award-winning novel. Additionally, A Tale of Two Cities can get complicated at times as a result of background information regarding the feudal system, the French monarchy, and parts of the French Revolution. From the accentuated language and a (somewhat) lovable main character in Sydney Carton, this story will best be appreciated by a mature reader. Although it cannot be classified as a “quick read,” the level of detail and historical references are meant to make the reader think and reflect upon what is truly going on. By physically placing oneself in the book, the reader is able to escape to another world and actually see the actions of the characters happening before...
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...Out of this week’s readings, I much preferred the short story, Fear & Loathing in America to The New York Times article. I found myself rather bored reading the article about the many sporting events being called off, immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I will admit that I am not much of a sports fan - especially not American sports teams – however I tried to read the article with an open mind. Litsky and Williams (2011) wrote the article in a very fact-based, typical news story way, which meant that if the reader is not at all interested in the subject matter, the narrative style does nothing to make the reader interested in reading on. Even the title sparked little interest; I was surprised they did not use the words, ‘terrorist attacks’ in the title, as most media like to grab the reader’s attention immediately. Thompson (2011) on the other hand, wrote a completely different kettle of fish that did not focus so much on sport, but more about the shocking 9/11 attacks. Thompson (2011) aptly described, “Football suddenly seemed irrelevant, compared to the scenes of destruction and utter...
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...selection (not poetry) by that author to develop and present in class to a small group. Provide the website or make one copy of the story if it is not in our textbook so I can make copies available for the class. B. Critically read your story (more than once) and the background information from the text. Take notes over important information. Include information about plot, character, setting, theme, any other literary technique that your author uses as well as historical and literary information from the time period. C. Research information about your author. Use the Biography sections of the textbook and appropriate resources from the Internet and library such as American Writers, Current Biography, Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Who’s Who in America, Readers Guide to Biography and Criticism, Readers Encyclopedia of American Literature, Cambridge History of American Literature, Black Women Writers at Work, etc. Use a variety of reputable sources. Limit general encyclopedia references to one. Keep track of resource information. You will need to show evidence of research and include parenthetical citations in your work. You will also need a complete, correct annotated bibliography. D. Prepare a 40-minute presentation for a group of other students who will also have read your story. You may present the material any way you wish considering the limitations we have for class. Let me know if you have special...
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...subscribers premise accounts for the higher share of sales volume of most of the periodicals. Shops are the main source for occasional readers to avail publications. Titli is one of the National Publishing Company products. The Product Titli is a children’s fortnightly vernacular magazine published by the company and is the market leader in children’s periodicals segment. Titli is mainly targeted to the children of age group between 5 to 12 years. It carries various features like two-three short two-page stories, three or four longer stories, one or at the most two serialized stories, two or three short poems, seven-eight regular cartoon features, titbits, fun and games. The magazine carries one story written in simple language with bolder letters for the children who are beginning to read. It also carries a ‘read aloud’ short story in rhyming language for the children who are yet to begin read properly. Titli is priced at Rs.2 per copy. After attaining peak sales in 1987, Titli’s circulation declined about 40% during 1989. The withdrawal of ‘Children’s Delight’ magazine from children’s periodical segment did not result in a substantial increase in the circulation of Titli. Promotional schemes increased sales of the particular issue by 10% but subsequent issues didn’t attract the additional buyers. Market Overview Looking at the consumer market demographics,...
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...RED FROM GREEN The Short story Red from Green by Maile Meloy is about a fifteen year old girl named Sam Turner, who is on a four-day float trip with her father, her uncle and the uncle’s client, Layton, from his new law firm. At this trip Sam develops and discovers new things in the process of becoming an adult and to overcome the stage from being just a child. The short story takes place in Montana, where the Turner family lives. The plot takes place at a river and the surrounding areas, where they stay for the night. “It is July, and hot, and the water was low” (p. 8, l. 2). The setting does on a symbolic level indicate the untamed nature, and the wild sides in the human. The floating river symbolizes how the actions in the plot just float, and they get grabbed by the atmosphere. It takes place in the summer, and Sam, who is the main character, stands in front of a very important decision. Her father had entered her to a boarding school for Sam’s sophomore year, and she got a scholarship offer. The mention of the topic makes them both feel uncomfortable. “… but neither of them could bring themselves to talk about it” (p. 8, l. 8-9) The father is a very caring parent. Sam’s mother is dead, which implies that the father had dismayed about it. Maybe it is because he feels he is going to lose her, or probably miss the chance of seeing her grow up to be an adult. He had openly applied because everyone thought it was a great idea because the fact is that it was a better opportunity...
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...us, can have a certain meaning of how our lives turns out in the end. In the short story “A simple Exchange of Niceties” written by Joanne Fedler, “2007” is a young woman facing all the things that turns up, when she didn’t expected it. By an accidental mistake and a simple exchange of niceties, her life turned out for the better. The short story “A simple Exchange of Niceties ” is told by a first-person narrator. Seen in a bigger picture, the short story is about a young woman whose 8 weeks pregnant and she’s going to have an abortion. She works as a waitress and doesn’t have a lot of money. She has a favourite bench in the park, that she’s sits on, but it’s only if anyone else aren’t sitting there. She likes the idea, that the bench is put there especially for her, and she’s actually calling the bench for “hers”. She hates when people comes over and sits on her bench, without a simple exchange of niceties as “do you mind” or “May I”. While she’s sitting on the bench, we hear about the boy, Damian who got her pregnant, her best friend Barbie, and her corrupt relationship with her mom. After a while a woman comes and sits on the bench. The woman starts to talk and cry about, the fact that she can’t have kids, and how bad she wants it. Right before the woman leaves, she tells the narrator, that she’s somehow related to the same bench as our narrator. After the woman has left, she starts to think about, giving her the baby, and...
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...“I like benches. They make you feel as if people matter… They just sit and wait for you, an invitation that’s never revoked.”[1] This sentence in Joanne Felder’s short story, “A Simple Exchange of Niceties”, 2007, is very important. During her upbringing she has never really felt appreciated or special by her own mother, “My mother wouldn’t even put up the $500 bail for me. I guess I understand her point. I’m bad news”[2] It seems like she is very clear with who she is; she does not blame her mother – but instead she blames her self. She keeps away from social surroundings because they bring her back to her own childhood, “I got all panicky. She reminded me of my Nan who’s been dead for more than ten years”[3]. This is also why she is so attached to this bench – as she says herself, she feels welcome there, but it is also a dead piece of wood put together and therefore it can never hurt her like she has been hurt so many times before. It is the place where she can find peace and quietness in her mind. This is why the bench has such a big significance in the short story – it is the only place that she feels welcome and not judged. It is also the place where her life changes in many ways, “Since I’m already pregnant and all that, maybe I’ll just have it, and give it to her. It was the first time I had ever thought about coincidence and fate.”[4] Even though her pregnancy was an accident she now gives it a deeper thought and the meeting with the lady who cannot have a baby changes...
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...An analysis of the Role of Family Disappointment in Joyce’s Dubliners James Joyce, an Irish modernist writer and influential author in the twentieth century, wrote the story collection named “Dubliners”. This collection consisted of fifteen short stories and carried a naturalist style. In “Dubliners”, Joyce rarely uses metaphors, relying on simplicity and attention to detail to create an authentic setting. Joyce often carried hidden similarities throughout each of his novels and poetry. This is seen true within Joyce’s collection, “Dubliners”. A close analysis of “Dubliners” reveals an excellent example of the role of family disappointment as shown in each of the short stories; “Araby”, “Eveline”, and “The Dead”. A direct example or claim of family disappointment can clearly be seen within each of these three short stories. Theses examples will be laid out and explained throughout this essay. Each example having varying circumstance, and outcome. Displayed from the point of view of the characters, to be taken inside their heads, and be shown a different aspect of what family disappointment means to the characters. The theme of disappointment in “Dubliners” is all about the painful experience. Ambiguity so to speak, the misconception of life being grand, only to face the troubles of reality. The characters determine that their own families don’t always have their best interest at heart, that their wives were deceitful, and that the world of business can be bitter...
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