Essays on Short Story

‘Killings’ by Andre Dubus is set in a proletarian city in Massachusetts. The story discovers the mentality as well as feeling of spouses once their child Frank is killed. The story involves complications in addition to tension. The dark enemy and killer, Richard Strout, is treated by Dubus with minor notes of sympathy (Dubus, 1979,...

What, in your view, is the significance of D.H. Lawrence’s short story The Prussian Officer for an understanding of Midgley’s discussion of freedom In this essay, I will begin by giving a summary of D.H. Lawrence’s short story, The Prussian Officer. I will then summarise John Stewart Mill’s ‘harm principle’ which Midgley’s critique of which,...

The essay discusses the short story written by Rebecca Roanhorse,” Welcome to the authentic Indian experience”. The essay analyzes the notion of authentic experiences that Jesse faces. The essay tends to prove that the authentic experience Jesse faces through the action of White Wolf, are very similar to the real-life experience of the American Indigenous...

Methodology The structuralist approaches are varied when applied to textual analysis (Bressler, 100). In this essay, I will take four of them to interpret Raymond Carver’s Cathedral. The main elements within each approach are binary oppositions, narrative functions, metalanguage, and literary competence. While applying these divergent methods to the interpretation for this short story, different...

Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study Literature is often described as the body of writing that exists because of inherent imaginative and artistic qualities. Literary works convey awareness to the readers about moral values in life. As a creative work, literature is also a container for conveying and accommodating ideas, theories, and systems...

If there is one sure thing, it is thanks to Quitters, Inc. that there is an assertive way to stop smoking. Stephen King wrote a short story called “Quitters, Inc.” which explains the tale of a company with a cruel but effective way to quit smoking. The main character’s name is Dick Morrison. Dick has...

The story Borders by Thomas King is about a mother who struggles to not only cross the border to see her daughter but also maintaining her identity. In my opinion, the author used the text to connect with people, real-world issues and how society reacts to give the story significance. The story deals with real-world...

The Price of Pride Allen Edgar Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is short story of two friends, where one murders the other to avenge himself. To start with the beginning, Poe makes the opening of the story interesting by starting it with a hyperbole. Montresor says, “Fortunato had hurt me a thousand times” (Poe, 68)....

“The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker and “The Test” by Angelica Gibbs are short stories describing the struggles of being segregated because of diversity. In “The Stolen Party” the protagonist, Rosaura, a nine year-old Latina girl, goes to a party thinking she’s a guest but ends up being worked by her mother’s employer, Senora Ines,...