The Story of an Hour By Kate Chopin This short story is about an hour in the life of the main character Mrs Millard She is afflicted with a heart problem Bad news has come about that her husband has died in a train accident Her sister Josephine and Richard who is her husbands friend has to break the horrifying news to her as gently as possible They both were concerned that the news might somehow put her in great danger with her health Ironically Mrs Millard reacts to the news with excitement Ev
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL The Return of the Native looks at first like a typical nineteenth century novel long with several plots and set in a wide landscape But this tale is really very compact The major action takes place in a years time All of the characters live in the Egdon area and the outside world does not intrude we do not hear for example about the national problems of England All of the major characters are bound together in a dense knot of relationships The structure of this
The Red Convertible The first thing we have to consider is the fact that Lyman is the narrator of the story and he can be either a reliable or unreliable narrator The unreliable narrator is the character who tells a story only to reveal at the end that hes been misleading us all along Is Lyman telling the truth We have no way of knowing for sure because there is no objective witness to Henrys death we have only Lymans word for what happened Fraternal bonds freedom innocence control and wisdom a
When Blessings Become Curses John Steinbeck 1902 1968 was born in Salinas California He received his love for literature from his mother He studied at Stanford University but did not graduate In 1929 he began writing his first novel He wrote about working class people and victims of the Great Depression His inspiration of The Pearl comes from traveling the Sea of Cortez in 1940 and hearing a story about a young man who found a large pearl He had great appreciation for the Mexican culture In 196
In Ernest Hemingways The Old Man and the Sea an old seasoned fisherman name Santiago struggles with the greatest catch of his life A swordfish he struggles with for three days and three nights but unfortunately his swordfish is eating by a large shark before he is able to make it back to his village This research paper will be about why this was chosen for the Pulitzer Prize The reason it was chosen for the Pulitzer Prize is because the book has great usage of symbolism man themes and simple bu
Santiago against the World For as long as man has roamed the earth he has tried to conquer nature Whether it is massive dams withholding entire lakes or tall steel skyscrapers defying the laws of gravity man continues to challenge this great force Unfortunately through the long and tiresome process of trial and error history shows that man will ultimately find himself at the mercy of nature A perfect example of this is Santiago the protagonist from Ernest Hemingways The Old Man and the Sea The
The Merchant of Venice was written in 1598 by William Shakespeare The story is set in Elizabethan times which was the sixteenth century People back then were quite prejudiced towards any race that was not Christian They would have hated Jews When Shylock would come onto the stage the audience would have just booed him back off The Christians had their reasons for hating the Jews The fact that they supposedly killed Jesus still angers many people today Christians were resentful of their wealth J
The treatment of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice has long been a controversial issue In the context of the play Shylock hates Antonio and seeks his revenge in an unusual and even garish way by demanding a pound of flesh Any villain would be seen as extremely villainous for that sort of behavior but the villainy of Shylock has been tied to the idea that the play is saying his villainy derives from his being Jewish In fact such a view ignores the comic nature of the play itself and also the way
It is funny how life works out sometimes You never know what you are going to get The Lottery is a story about a small village that holds a lottery drawing in the middle of the town square The winner of the lottery is then stoned by the towns people This piece of literature provides a clear example that things in life are not always what they seem The way the characters present themselves in the beginning of the story puts an optimistic view on the lottery After all lotteries are generally asso
Shirley Jacksons short story The Lottery aroused much controversy and criticism in 1948 following its debut publication in the New Yorker Jackson uses irony and comedy to suggest an underlying evil hypocrisy and weakness of human kind The story takes place in a small village where the people are close and tradition is paramount A yearly event called the lottery is one in which one person in the town is randomly chosen by a drawing to be violently stoned by friends and family The drawing has bee