‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Argues without Argument ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ is a complex short story told though the point of view of a sarcastic and insane protagonist, who has rapidly changing ideas about her surroundings, other characters and even her own psychological state. Because of this, readers may come to a variety of conclusions about major plot points and themes. Puzzled, readers will identify the piece as a horror story—a vivid portrayal of insanity with unsettling realism. This is indeed the conscious conclusion that Charlotte Perkins Gilman intends for her readers to form. However, the piece is so much more than a simple horror story; it is a deceptively hidden but powerful essay on female equality and marriage, two topics about which Gilman wrote frequently.
Liz Connolly 11/13/09 Short Story Unit Paper The three major types of short stories all possess their own characteristics and feeling that accompany them and their infamous creators. These three types, being Maupassantian, Checkhovian, and Poe, are portrayed in several short stories that are documented in numerous collections. Though these three genres of stories are very different, none of them can be determined to be better or worse than either of the others. It does, however, depend on how the story is presented and the audience that is on the receiving end. After reading and researching the multifaceted techniques that are incorporated within the Maupassantian style of stories, a conclusion was drawn that this style is
moment. I like how the author stated that a certain abnormality may be just that- a certain abnormality. But, apply that abnormality to a character, especially in literature, and you get a unique hero/heroine who'll make an amazing impact on the story. I also found it ironic how characters of stories with abnormalties are discriminated against in the story, yet they end up being the hero/heroine of the story. Also, in the real world, we'd feel sorry for these people, sympathize, or even evade them, viewing them as different, and maybe even discriminate against them (meaniieeess!).
The first aspect that I would like to discuss is that of the plot within “The Rite” and “The Man I Killed”. Some of the meanings are designed to be complicated thus furthering the possibilities of interpretation on the readers behalf. However, both short stories are similar and different in their own
Literary Text in The Most Dangerous Games By: Melvin Paige The literary texts that stood out to me were suspense, foreshadowing, and irony. Bullying in Jabari’s presentation had a big connection to the story. This is mainly because of how the story ends. This told me that bullying does not always go as planned. At Least in this situation it didn’t.
Fifth and final thing mentioned is the stylistic elements. One stylistic element that is shown in this short story is the way the author wrote the story. How in the beginning he made it seem like it was a story (which it was) but then in the end it turned out being a real murder case. In conclusion, the short story “Twins”, written by Eric Wright is a great short story. The setting, theme, plot, characters and stylistic elements were all shown well and easy but sort of tricky at the same time to
The Tell-Tale Heart Assignment: We notice that some details in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” make a literal reading of the story rather difficult. Advance and defend a figurative reading of the story consistent with the story’s details. Poe seems to focus on creating mood throughout his story. Many symbols in this story are interpreted in several different ways depending on the reader. These symbols throughout the story include the old mans eye, the heartbeat and the contradiction between love and hate in which I will be talking about in this paper.
As I Lay Dying The novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner tends to make readers confused when beginning to read it due to the theme the book entails. One of the main themes in the novel would have to be the difference of what are the truth and the explanation of what is true. Without a doubt any point is able to end in a massive amount of what is biased due to the different characters and their individual point of views. Each thought they have on what they believe true is dependent on their previous outlooks and thoughts. With that being said anything that is alleged can’t always necessarily be the truth.
So far in this class I have learned a few different parts of writing a memorable story. I have also learned there are few stories, and most of which are not that great that do not incorporate these themes and ideas. I have learned about “summarizing Scenes”, which is a useful way to help find or create the plot or plots of the story. I have learned “Characterization,” what makes the character's in the story come to life, and be memorable. There was also learning about the “Conflict” of the story, the event that the story needs to be interesting the one thing that pits at least 2 main characters together trying for opposite outcomes.
O’Connor uses humorous irony to affect the reader of these stories, and one can see that the three different areas that you notice similarities are showed through the characters, and how they can relate to one another- even though they are in two totally different stories, the setting- how both stories include some of the same styles in time and place, and the structure of how the stories are written, in which they both contain the element that there is an illusion to a lot of people and things in life, as well as how one can never know what is going to happen next. Through O’Connor’s certain writing style, one can notice that the characters in this story have quite a bit in common. Both sets of characters in these stories include one that is the unlike the rest. Comparing the grandma in A Good Man is Hard to Find and the daughter in Good Country People, it is clear that they are somewhat of the main characters in each story. In a way, the daughter (Hulga) and the Grandma both hold the