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- 101: Growth Of A Chrysanthemum
- Growth of a Chrysanthemum D. H. Lawrence’s 1914 short story, "Odour of Chrysanthemums", is still in print and considered worth reading in 1999. Perhaps it’s printed and reprinted as a matter of habit. Perhaps editors like it because other editors have. But maybe ... He has an authoritative mind. (Ford 257) As a fiction editor, he is quite receptive to Lawrence’s descriptive gifts. He is impressed with Lawrence’s sense of purpose. But readers needn’t assess the short story by Ford’s methods alone. Modern readers have a very different perspective than Lawrence’s contemporaries, ensuring that many different analyses of "Odour of Chrysanthemums" are possible. However, the plot itself is very simple ... to an acute sense of loneliness, which is the most unique aspect of the story. If we can attribute the unusual success of "Odour of Chrysanthemums" to those unique aspects, which distinguish it from other stories, then perhaps the unique, final moment is key evidence in the search for the reasons why "Odour of Chrysanthemums" is successful. Furthermore, the epiphany must be considered carefully, for it is of vital importance ...
- 102: On The Short Story Phineas Com
- ... and Gene: A Comparative Study To be an opposite of something or someone means to be the furthest from being like that person or object. One can say this for Gene and Phineas in the short story "Phineas" by John Knowles. Through reading the story one comes to see that Gene is an exact opposite of Phineas. One could say that Gene is insecure, envious, an admirer, intellectual and vindictive. In ... wasn't going to be opened up like that suitcase, to have him yank out all my thoughts and feelings and scatter them underfoot."(101) This quote shows how Gene was reluctant to tell his stories to Phineas. He did not feel that Phineas should know about him. This would leave us to believe that Gene does not want to tell Phineas these stories because Gene is afraid of what Phineas might conclude. Gene may also be reluctant to tell Phineas because of his insecurities, because he may feel that his stories are not as good as Phineas' ...
- 103: Contemporary Chicano Literatur
- ... topic that I don’t recall we ever discussed in class: Chicano literature. Myself being an actor and a writer this subject fascinates me. In preparation for my paper, my research consisted of reading several short stories by Chicano authors whom I found to be exceptionally successful. I will attempt to inform the reader of this paper about the Chicano authors' successes and give an analytical review of the stories which I read. These readings which I tackled upon myself were quite entertaining. I remember reading Octavio Paz's chapter, "The Pachuco and Other Extremes," from his book, The Labyrinth of Solitude Life and ...
- 104: CHARLES BAXTER
- ... from her husband because of her slip up with the scientist. As you can see all these women are pretty much the same character, just one minor detail and they can be used in different stories over and over again. Baxter does not change his characters but uses them in different settings, places and time so that the readers don't get bored. Baxter doesn't care if it's a novel or a short story, he'll deliver a good character whenever he feels necessary. All plot lines must be able to strike a nerve with the reader. If a plot does not move a reader, than the story ... ones. Although not a book, a play I believe "Macbeth" is a true masterpiece in its own time and till present day. In all of Baxter's work, there is a great plot involved. The short story "The Net Building Plan To Bomb" is one of my favourites because is this day and age, this story could relate to anyone of us. Some man whose name is never known finds ...
- 105: The Autobiographical Elements in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... He was once titled the "master of the macabre." One of the aspects in his life with which he struggled was social isolation. He used this as a topic in a number of poems and short stories. Poe's life was also filled with periods of fear and irrationality. He had a very sensitive side when it came to the female gender, any woman he was ever close to died at an ... periods of fear and irrationality were the cause of his misfortune and poor social status. He was looked down upon by his peers for these episodes. " A constant theme of Edgar Allan Poe was madness" ("Short Stories," 1995, p. 1). Poe expressed this theme throughout almost all of his short stories and poems. " Many of his stories exhibited abnormal states of mind and are constructed in terms of a single ...
- 106: Poe
- ... Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as the father of the American short story and father of the detective story. To understand the literary contributions of Edgar Allan Poe, one must look at his early life, his literary life, and a summary of two of his famous works ... Point the following month (Asselineau 411). "Poe was great in three different fields , and in each one he made a reputation that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us memorable short stories; but none has produced so ...
- 107: Chicano Literature
- ... topic that I don’t recall we ever discussed in class: Chicano literature. Myself being an actor and a writer this subject fascinates me. In preparation for my paper, my research consisted of reading several short stories by Chicano authors whom I found to be exceptionally successful. I will attempt to inform the reader of this paper about the Chicano authors' successes and give an analytical review of the stories which I read. These readings which I tackled upon myself were quite entertaining. I remember reading Octavio Paz's chapter, "The Pachuco and Other Extremes," from his book, The Labyrinth of Solitude Life and ...
- 108: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- Flannery O’Connor "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" A Southern American novelist and short story writer, Miss O’ Connor’s career spanned the 1950s and early ‘60s, a time when the South was dominated by Protestant Christians. O’Connor was born and raised Catholic. She was a fundamentalist and ... to depict salvation through shocking, often violent action upon characters who were spiritually or physically grotesque (Ryiley 334). Flannery O’Connor’s significance as a writer is her original use of religion. Like no other short story writer, she dramatizes religious themes in her fiction stories. She is established as one of the most gifted and original fiction writers of the 20th century. "Everything That Rise must converge," and " Revelation" won first prize in the O. Henry awards for short ...
- 109: Rattle Bone
- Pieces of a Novel Puzzle A novel or a collection of short stories? may be a question that a critic asks about Rattlebone. Maxine Clair portrays both arguments with her energetic writing style. A blend of random comments and many unique phrases intermix with the intense plot. Writing ... the pages in the book as the neighbor to Mr. Pemberton, who eventually has a relationship with him. Perhaps the most outstanding reason to claim that Rattlebone is a novel instead of a collection of short stories is the fact of aging amongst the characters. By the characters aging, Clair s writing takes one form and one time frame. The recurrence of these characters displays a sense of a time ...
- 110: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as the father of the American short story and father of the detective story. To understand the literary contributions of Edgar Allan Poe, one must look at his early life, his literary life, and a summary of two of his famous works ... Point the following month (Asselineau 411). "Poe was great in three different fields , and in each one he made a reputation that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us memorable short stories; but none has produced so ...
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