Cask Of Amontillado, The The way a story is narrated and the point of view by which the story is expressed says a lot about the story. When a story is told in the first person we see the world through the eyes of one character, usually the main character. When a story is told in the third person we see the world through the eyes of another person not the main character and the opinions

Kim Identity Crisis It takes many people years to find their identities; who they are, what their purpose in life is and how to best live their lives. Rudyard Kipling’s novel Kim traces Kim’s journey in finding himself and his identity. Kim travels around India and meets various people with different backgrounds and beliefs. Every time he encounters a new situation he changes his pe

Rose For Emily The story of A Rose For Emily is a very in depth tale about a woman named Emily Grierson who was the last of a very prestigious rich family left in a small, tight community set in the 19th century fallowing the civil war. The city of Jefferson appears to be a community that is growing, evolving and changing, but most of the residents there still gossip and spy on each oth

Conflict in Stories Conflict in Stories Complications usually arise after a writer introduces the main point in a story. These complications are usually the result of conflicts. There are three kinds of conflict within a story (Trimmer and Jennings 4). The first kind of conflict is conflict among the characters. The second kind of conflict is conflict between a character and his or he

Like Water For Chocolate In magical realism you find the transformation of the common, into the awesome and the unreal as a part of everyday reality. According to Literature and Its Time, the term was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh in 1925, it described a manner of painting that “was not a mixture of reality and fantasy but a way to uncover the mystery hidden in ordinary

The Soldier And The Stone The Soldier and the Stone” War. When a commoner thinks of this word, little is brought to mind. We get an image of a soldier; usually male, dressed in a camouflage uniform, helmet, and creeping through a field undetected by the enemy while carrying their gun. This naivety has kept us in the dark, giving us an altered definition of the word, perhaps to conce

The Sparrow The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell is a combination of science fiction, religion and complete fantasy. The story is about a Jesuit led mission to Alpha Centauri, a planet that sound signals (SETI) have been being gathered from. The sounds were beautiful. The Jesuits thought of them as praises of God and decided that if there were children of God somewhere out there then it was

Como Agua Para Chocolate In magical realism you find the transformation of the common, into the awesome and the unreal as a part of everyday reality. According to Literature and Its Time, the term was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh in 1925, it described a manner of painting that “was not a mixture of reality and fantasy but a way to uncover the mystery hidden in ordinary

Existentialism In A Clean Well Lighted Place Throughout life, humans often question their own existence. Existentialism is a philosophy that is centered upon the human existence, it focuses on individuals finding a reason for living within themselves. This reason is a truth in themselves, a truth that they must be able to live for, this truth is based on the premise that nothing is pr

My Kinsman Major Molinuex My Kinsman Major Molinuex starts off with a young sheltered boy by the name of Robin going on a journey to the city, but more so by force rather than by will. He is searching for his kinsman, the Major. While looking for his kinsman he assumes that his kinsman would live in a good part of town and be well known, respected, and admired. He finds that some of th

The Sickles That Bind Death is a familiar character in stories of war. One might even make the argument that it is an integral being to any war account. However, rarely does Death assume so important a role as in Hikaru Okuizumi’s The Stones Cry Out and Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. Not only does it take on the role of ending life; it is shown as an ever-present tie

The Souls Of Black Folks “The Souls of Black Folk” W. E. B. Du Bois uses metaphors frequently in his writings to describe the feelings and life of being black. He discusses how people were treated, how they were looked at by white Americans, progression of the changing world, and how a Negro would not change, doing so by using metaphors. Du Bois discusses this in the four following

THe Story Of Justine The story of Justine William, Victor’s brother, is found murdered one day after playing in the forest with his brother Ernest. The real murderer is the creature, who had found a way to indirectly torture Victor. Justine is found to have the picture out of the locket that Elizabeth gave to William the morning of the day he was murdered. This circumstantial evidenc

The Summer Before The Dark “The Summer Before The Dark” By: Doris Lessing Kate Brown is the typical mother of four children, and the ideal wife. She describes her life as “an ordinary life which I have been living with regrets of not having done everything I would have dreamed to do”. By the way she describes it, I think her life, as a middle class person, has falle

The Symbolic Nature Of Caves In E. M. Forster’s A Passage To India A Passage to India, E. M. Forster’s best-known novel, illustrates the cultural dichotomy of Indian and British lifestyles in the age of imperialism. Perhaps one of the greatest incongruities in this dichotomy is the differing view of life held by the Christian, Muslim, and Hindu characters within the novel. Forster divi

The Tall Stranger The Tall Stranger The Tall Stranger was written by Louis L’Amour. The Tall Stranger was written in 1957. Louis L’Amour is one of America’s favorite storytellers. He has thrilled the nation in his stories with his way of bringing to life brave men and women who settled in the American frontier. The Tall Stranger is a story about a stubborn man named Rock Bannon who

The Tell-Tale Heart “The Tell-Tale Heart” This chilling tale of madness and murder penned by American horror genius Edgar Allan Poe revolves around the irrational acts of one poor tormented soul. Because Poe chose to allow the reader to experience the events of “The Tell-Tale Heart” through the main character’s own perspective, the narrator is never even given a name; however it is st

The Secret Agent Light The Secret Agent is a novel by Joseph Conrad around which you follow the life of Winnie Verloc through the events of her husband Adolf Verloc and his fellow revolutionaries. When reading this novel you are immersed in the book by Conrad’s use of detail and vocabulary. There are so many details and hidden messages that you have to wonder if Conrad had a conscious

The Shipbuilder There are many instances in Ken Mitchell’s play The Shipbuilder, where the main character Jaanus Karkulainen, insists on being called by his Finnish name Karkulainen. In the play, many characters call him Johnny Crook. This situation creates controversy about names and shows how important names are to some people. Jaanus and Jukka create most of this controversy. Jaanu

The Slave Dancer, By Paula Fox The Slave Dancer a novel by Paula Fox, a tale which took place in the 1840s in New Orleans, Louisiana to the coasts of Africa and to the Mississippi River, the colonial years of America, when slave trade and land exploration was everyday life. The story starts out with a young boy by the name of Jessie Bollier a thirteen year old southern white boy who play

The Stranger(review) The Stranger After I read The Stranger, I found more than one theme in the book. My first theme was the meaninglessness of human life and another one is the importance of the physical world. These themes are very apparent because you really didn’t have to read deep into the book to see these themes. I think the theme was effectively developed because it was strai

The Tormenting Fiend “All that we are is the result of what we have thought… If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him… If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.” (Buddha) This is a perfect quote to explain what happened to Roger Chillingworth throughout the book “The Scarlet Letter”. The more evilness

The Trageties Of Macbeth And Hamlet The Tragedies of Macbeth and Hamlet The Tragedies of Macbeth and Hamlet were written by William Shakespeare. The Protagonist in Macbeth is Macbeth and the protagonist in Hamlet is Claudius. These two characters are similar in the way that they are both having major downfalls in the play. Claudius’ downfall is that he has to live with his conscien

The Ugly Duckling The Ugly Duckling The story of the ugly duckling is about a little ugly duck that was rejected by all the animals that lived with him. Even the animals that he thought were his family. He was rejected for the only reason, that he was big and ugly. The ugly duckling also suffered from the fact that he did not know where he came from. After reading this story, it makes m

The Ugly Duckling The tale of “The Ugly Duckling” has been told for many generations. It is the story of a little swan that is mistakenly hatched in a duck’s nest and because of his strange and different appearance he is teased and ridiculed. Even his mother can’t understand how this “ugly duckling” could be one of her own. The ugly duckling goes through many hardships and a long, lon

The Sound And The Fury Many novels have been written using flashback. Their content can be described as informative and filling. However, some authors, who use flashback in their writings, confuse the reader by writing out of sequence. Equipped with suspense, frustration, and even pity, William Faulkner’s The Sound And The Fury is a novel one needs to have patience and concentration t

The Thing They Carried The Things They Carried War is hell. The simple phrase is basically true and seems easy to imagine. However, nothing compares to actually fighting in a war. The narrator, Tim O’Brien tells many stories about his war experience and brings the reader into his world of bravery, shame, death, and beauty. Obviously the title evinces that one of the focuses is on

The Things They Carried How does death affect the behavior of people' Although death affects everyone’s behavior differently, knowledge of one’s imminent death is a main force behind behavioral changes. This knowledge causes emotions that motivate people to look for changes, that make them have to adjust. It makes them find different ways to cope with war. This is the reason that cau

The Things They Carried All too often, literature is misunderstood by a reader due to the simple fact that he or she has no idea what happened in the author’s life to cause him or her to write a particular literary piece and what the author is trying to pass on to the reader. There are many factors that affect the way an author writes his or her literature including experiences that too

The Things They Carried “The Things They Carried” is a short story by author Tim O’Brien. It is a fictional account of an American officer, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, and his soldiers serving in Vietnam. The story begins with a description of the equipment the men are required or chose to carry with them as they patrol Vietnam. Interwoven in the story amidst the descriptions of the men’s po