discussion of short stories that we have studied and the film that we have watched: • “Brackley and the Bed”, pp. 39-43 • “A Soldier’s Bride”, pp. 57-61 • “The Moose and the Sparrow”, pp, 103-109 • “The Sniper”, pp. 114-116 • “Blood Diamond”, the movie + pp. 68-71 What is a group discussion? A group discussion is an assessment situation where you sit with your teacher and discuss a topic. During the discussion, the teacher will ask you different questions relevant to the stories / the film and
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the setting of the short story? (Where, when, the environment) - Who are the main characters, and how can you characterize them? (Age, looks, mentality, etc.) - Do any of the main characters change or develop during the story? This is often the case, and is almost always significant. - What are the main conflicts of the story? In all stories the main character(s) has a problem, or a number of problems, which he/she has to solve. Find out what the problems are in your story. The passages where
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reading a short story, poem, or even novel the author often attempts to provide the audience with some type of personal connection to a variety of components to the reading. An author may select very personable, hardworking, and unselfish characters to allow the audience to connect in some way with the main or subordinate characters; or the author may elect to provide a common type of setting to provide the readers an additional way to connect to the literature. Mona Simpson’s short story entitled
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times it could be even an awkward unreasoned statement or joke that could place people on the warpath. In the short story of Edgar Allan Poe the offended villain Montresor is planning the murder of his recent fellow the Fortunato. The used language of the short story depicts Montressor’s nature and presents to the reader the cold blooded and cynical villain. The course of the short story reveals the cold blooded nature of Montresor. Fortunato, the victim, despite the nature of his poetic name that
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Killings Analysis Style and Technique “Killings,” one of Dubus’s best-known and most respected stories, was the basis for the film In the Bedroom (2001). Although the story revolves around passion and violence, Dubus tells the tale in a flat, calm way. The first two acts of violence are dropped into the story unexpectedly and without emotion. The story opens with Frank’s funeral, then moves on to the conversation between Willis and Matt about how Matt wishes he could kill the man who murdered
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this, in the short story “Mount Pleasant”, that is written in the year of 2005 by Mary-Louise Buxton. The story is told by a little girl called Elizabeth, who lives with her family in their new house, called Mount Pleasant. We read about how Elizabeth likes to get dirty and play outside like the boys, even though her mother hates this. Beside this, we also read about how she thinks and sees things in their new house – so the whole story is a bit childless. In the following analysis I will take a
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The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin analysis In the following I will analyse the short story “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin. The short story is written on April 19 1894. In the short story we are introduced to 4 characters: Louise Mallard, Josephine, Richard and Brently Mallard. Louise Mallard is the main character in the story. Louise Mallard is married to Brently Mallard. She was afflicted with a heart trouble. Louise lived in an unhappy marriage. “And yet she had loved him- sometimes
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differently by two different readers? Title of the text for analysis: Stone Mattress Part of the course to which the task refers: Part 4: Literature – Critical Study Outline of the essay: I - INTRODUCTION - Any text can be read and interpreted differently depending of its different readers, since everyone has a different way of seeing and understanding things depending on our ideologies, context etc. * Overview of the short story. * Explanation of the main audience; feminists given the
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Stylistic analysis of the story “Cat in the Rain” by Earnest Hemingway The author. The story under the title “Cat in the Rain” was written by Ernest Hemingway. He was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published
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Labovian Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s The Faithful Bull Ernest Hemingway and his love of bullfighting require no formal introduction, however his short story, The Faithful Bull, is less well known. It is essentially a fable having been written for the child of a friend and published in 1951. Twenty-one years later, the famous linguist, William Labov laid out a framework outlining the progression of oral narratives in a six-part structure. The advantage of this Labovian method of analysis is that
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