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- 161: Spotted Horses
- "Spotted Horses" Vs. "Mule in the Yard" William Faulkner wrote two short stories, which are alike in many aspects. "Spotted Horses" and "Mule in the Yard" are short stories that both involve comic animal chases and financial transactions. Even though the stories are written by the same author, have similar characteristics, and share similar plot features, they are entirely different stories. The ...
- 162: A Comparison of Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe
- A Comparison of Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe Fear, terror and suspense are the most vivid emotions created by Poe's stories and by Hitchcock's films. Several themes are common to both: the madness that exists in the world, the paranoia caused by isolation which guides people's actions, the conflict between appearance and reality along ... which makes him obsessed with fear: fear of the past, of the house, of the dead. He finally dies, "victim to the terrors he had anticipated." The way in which madness is projected in both stories is quite similar as well. The short story and the movie both take place in a dark and gloomy house, a "ghostly house" — "a mansion of doom," writes Poe. In both houses there is the presence of a mysterious woman. For ...
- 163: Welcome To The Monkey House
- ... children" in them. Most common are the racism, and sex reasons. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut is an example of a book banned for these reasons. The book is a collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut and the title is the same as the title of one of the stories. These stories include "Welcome to the Monkey House", "All the King's Horses", "Who am I This Time?", "More Stately Mansions", "The Foster portfolio", and "The Kid Nobody Could Handle" along with many others. ...
- 164: The Painted Door: Summary
- The Painted Door: Summary For a short story to be effective, it must be able to produce high levels of intensity, emotion and drama. To do this, it must convey a great deal of information in a short space of time. As a result, the short story usually leaves a great deal of its content open to interpretation and examination by the reader. Also, the denouements of short stories frequently remain inconclusive and unfulfilled. Together, these attributes add to the ...
- 165: Sherwood Anderson Life And Inf
- LaBrie 1 Sherwood Anderson's life experiences And the way they influenced how he wrote Sherwood Anderson often wrote of other people's misery in his short stories and used it in ironic ways when writing his endings. After reading several of his these stories and reading several biographies of his life, I have come to the conclusion that Anderson's life experiences greatly influence the method in which he wrote them. Also, when comparing some of his stories ...
- 166: J.D. Salinger
- ... authors. In 1938 Salinger briefly attended Ursinus College in Pennsylvania where he wrote a column, "Skipped Diploma," which featured movie reviews for his college newspaper. Salinger made his writing debut when he published his first short story, "The Young Folks," in Whit Burnett’s Story magazine (French, xiii). He was paid only twenty-five dollars. In 1939, at the age of 20, Salinger had not acquired any readers. He later enrolled ... style to fit the literary marketplace. He was writing for money and began writing for magazines like Good Housekeeping and Mademoiselle. Many of Salinger’s characters have unique character traits. "Salinger presents a number of stories that consider characters who become involved in degrading, often phony social contexts," states a major critic (Wenke, 7). These characters are often young and have experienced a lot of emotional turmoil. They have been rejected ... and mainly categorized as "misfits." This alienation of the personality is often viewed as a sign of weakness by society when in fact the outcasts ultimately gain strength from their experiences as shown in Nine Stories, The Catcher in the Rye, and Franny and Zooey. Salinger is telling a tale of the human condition in its reality through his novels. Nine Stories is a collection of short stories of people ...
- 167: Bierce
- ... degrading it was. His writing style can be contributed to his war time experiences. His works are blunt, brutally realistic, and his attacks on others in the San Francisco Examiner, (American politically correct. Bierce's short stories "often hinge on an ironic surprising conclusion" (Contemporary as in one of his better known works "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge", were the sudden death of a Confederate spy catches us by surprise. A ... gave him the nickname, "the wickedest man in San Francisco" (Contemporary Although often portrayed as a realist for his accounts on the Civil War, "Bierce was not striving for documentary realism, as he himself admitted"(Short Story Criticism 48). Instead, Bierce was interested in manipulating the reader's viewpoint. The perspective in which the story is written is used to manipulate the reader's viewpoint, for example in "Chickamauga", where ...
- 168: Stephen King, Bio
- Stephen Edwin King is one of today s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, at the ... and rational light of the bathroom bulb could shine on my face (Beaham 16). Stephen King s exposure to oral storytelling on the radio had a large impact on his later writings. King tells his stories in visual terms so that the reader would be able to see what was happening in their own mind, somewhat in the same fashion the way it was done on the radio (Beaham 17). King ... his shortcomings, he is the best writer of horror fiction that America has yet produced (Beaham 22). In many of Lovecraft s writings he always used his present surroundings as the back drop of his stories. King has followed in his footsteps with the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Castle Rock is a combination of several towns that King moved to and from with his family in his childhood. ...
- 169: Greasy Lake
- T. Coraghessan Boyle’s "Greasy Lake" and "Big Game" are similarly structured but completely different short stories that explain the transitions of people from fake slaves of their image to genuine and realized individuals. If not portrayed in the stories, the development in the characters certainly escapes into the reader’s imagination and almost magically makes them the learned. The plot of the two stories is one of the strongest lines connecting them together ...
- 170: Nine Stories
- J D Salinger wrote Nine Stories with the same brilliance as Catcher In The Rye. His style is so unique and complex that all of his short stories are truly enjoyable. Two of those stories are ^A perfect day for a bananafish^ and ^For Esme with love and squalor.^ The main characters in both of these stories, Seymour and Sargent X, have ...
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