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- 181: J.D. Salinger
- J.D. Salinger Jerome David Salinger, known as J.D., is an American short story writer and novelist. He was born on January 1, 1919 and is still alive at the age of 81. J.D. Salinger was born and raised in Manhattan. He went to prep school at ... 19 years old. Then, in 1937 and 1938 he studied at Ursinus College and New York University. From 1939 to 1942, he went to Columbia University where he decided to become a writer. Salinger published short story collections and one novel. His best known work, The Catcher in the Rye, was published in 1951. The short stories he wrote were "Nine Stories" in 1953, "Franny and Zooey" in 1961, "Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction" in 1963, "Young Folk" in 1940 and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" ...
- 182: Life's Too Short
- Life's Too Short Often times when the normal parent or upstanding citizen turns on the TV and sees a young black man rapping about the hood they are usually turned off. Stereotypes come in to play and the channel is switched without even considering what message that human being is trying to convey. When listening to rapper Too Short and his song "Gettin it", you here a lot of stereotypes being defied. The song is about getting out of the hood and making a good life for yourself. Most of society just assumes that these young black rappers have no brain's and no sense of purpose for life. Too Short's song "Gettin it" tells a different story. Too Short's successes portray the dream that kids have growing up in the hood. Those kids dream of getting rich at a young age and ...
- 183: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... Academy of the Sacred Heart. It is here that Kate discovers literature and the joys of reading (Hoffman). Her great-grandmother taught her to speak French and play the piano. She also delighted Kate with stories that made a vial impression on her. One of which was the story of how her grandmother, had run a ferry service on the Mississippi, and lively stories of women who dared- and seldom remarried. (Howard) In 1863, Kate had to endure more heartache. Her great-grandmother dies. During the same year, her half-brother, George, was captured as a Confederate soldier in ... in 1884. (Howard) Shortly after returning to St. Louis to live with her mother, her mother dies. Abandoned and hurt by the cycle of illness and death, that had changed her life in such a short period of time, Kate began to doubt herself as a person. (Ker) Her neighbor and a family friend, Dr. Frederick Kolbenheyer, suggested she find comfort from he losses by writing. He encouraged her to ...
- 184: Similarities and Differences Between The Bridges of Madison County and The Storm
- ... and Differences Between The Bridges of Madison County and The Storm Finding the similarities and the differences between The Bridges of Madison County a novel written by Waller, and “The Storm" by Kate Coplin, a short story is really quit simple. The not so easy task would be narrowing them all down and just highlighting the less obvious ones. The biggest difference that stands out the most would have to be that “The Storm” is a short story and The Bridges of Madison County is a novel, so therefore the details in “The Bridges” are much more thorough than in “The Storm”. The following paragraphs will state some more important similarities and differences between the two. The settings of the novel and the short story are alike but different. The setting in “The Bridges” is in Iowa, at a time 1965, the family involved lived on a farm in rural Iowa. In “The Storm” the setting was similar ...
- 185: Kate Chopin A Style Of Her Own
- ... lives of women during the nineteenth century. These conflicts seemed to travel from one woman to the next, unnoticed by the rest of society. Chopin used these conflicts as a basis for all of her short stories and novels. This inevitably started turmoil about issues that never were brought out before. This in turn opened the eyes of society to the individuality of women. In The Awakening, by Chopin, a woman named ... a black tint to him, he feels that she has hidden something from him. Desiree's feelings overcome her and she drowns herself and her child. Again, symbolism takes a large part in Chopin's stories. This act symbolizes the independence that women do not have because of a male dominated society. Women had few options, and one of them was, unfortunately, death. In "The Storm", Chopin again uses symbolism ...
- 186: Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho
- ... s grandfather, Bernard Vonnegut, unlike his grandson, disliked working in the hardware store. Possessing an artistic nature, he studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also received training in Hannover, Germany. After a short stint working in New York, Bernard returned to Indianapolis in 1883 and joined with Arthur Bohn to form the architectural firm of Vonnegut & Bohn. The firm designed such impressive structures as the Das Deutsche Haus ... loads on some other German city. On Feb. 13, 1945, the air raid siren went off in Dresden and Vonnegut, some other POWs and their German guards found refuge in a meat locker located three stories under the slaughterhouse. "It was cool there, with cadavers hanging all around," Vonnegut said. "When we came up the city was gone. They burnt the whole damn town down." In recalling the aftermath of the ... in Schenectaduy, New York. As an aside, in 1971 the University of Chicago finally awarded Vonnegut a master's degree in anthropology for his novel Cat's Cradle. While working for GE, Vonnegut began submitting stories to mass-market magazines. His first published piece "Report on the Barnhouse Effect," appeared in Collier's February 11, 1950 issue - an article for which he received $750 (minus, of course, a 10 percent ...
- 187: Edgar Allan Poe
- By: Tommy Smith Short Story Perversity Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. He defined the form of the American short story. As one might expect, Poe himself eschewed conventional morality, which he believed stems from man's attempts to dictate the purposes of God. Poe saw God more as process than purpose. He believed ...
- 188: Hemingway's "In Our Time": Lost Generation
- ... message about the time period in question. All of the "messages" bring the reader to an understanding of a generation, the "lost generation" that appears to result from Hemingway's novel. Ernest Hemingway uses intense short stories to leave a feeling of awe and wonder in the reader of In Our Time. One begins to become emotionally involved and attached to Hemingway's many stories, just as he himself appears to hold some personal attachment and emotion to each story. One could even speculate that In Our Time's main character Nick, is in fact, Hemingway himself. It seems ...
- 189: Langston Hughes
- ... selected as Class Poet. His father didn't think he would be able to make a living as a writer. His father paid his tuition to Columbia University for him to study engineering. After a short time, Langston dropped out of the program with a B+ average, all the while he continued writing poetry. His first published poem was also one of his most famous, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", and it appeared in Brownie's Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays, and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. One of Hughes' finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain". ...
- 190: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- ... novel, This Side of Paradise” sold 20,000 copies in one week. Fitzgerald was excited about the money he could make with his writings and this started Fitzgerald's habit of writing a series of short stories after each novel. Then Fitzgerald began experimenting with his writing talent. Fitzgerald wrote his first and only play in November 1923 called “The Vegetable or from President to Postman” it flopped leaving Fitzgerald broken hearted ... to manage his finances and was constantly in debt. He was always living beyond his means and borrowing money from his next unwritten story. During this period of Fitzgerald's life he was relying on short stories as the main and only income. It has been figured by Matt Bruccoli that during Fitzgerald's life span he made around $386,382 an average of $21,466. In 1930, Zelda had ...
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