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- 231: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible. Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't get outside, he escaped to his room and read books. He loved to tell stories to his classmates, often insisting that a friend listen to one of his stories. In spite of his mother's desire, he played on the football team at Oak Park High School. As a student, Ernest was a perfectionist about his grammar and studied English with a fervor. He ... was Paris, where he could devote himself to his writing. He said, at the time, that the most difficult thing to write about was being a man. They could not live on income from his stories and so Ernest, again, wrote for The Toronto Star. Ernest took Hadley to Italy to show her where he had been during the war. He was devastated, everything had changed, everything was destroyed. Hadley ...
- 232: Short Story Essay On Poe
- Short Story Essay On Poe I basically thought Poe and his story, " The Fall of the House of Usher", was a good one to choose. It has irony, imagination, and description put into it. I enjoyed this short story a lot because of the meaning involved. Poe always finds ways to write the stories that journey inside the mind. Although his life was filled with much death as well as disappointment, Poe always mystified us by his unique style of writing. Many people seem to have various opinions ...
- 233: Short Story Summaries
- Short stories, magazine articles, poems, essays, reports and many more forms of literature can be written with informative aspects in ways that are interesting. Banbara's ethnical essay, The Lesson, immediately jumps out as being judgemental. BAmbara ... language. The reader understands that this is intended to show characterization but feels that this extremity could be better described with amouther choice of words. Bambara's technique for giving informatiove and interesting information falls short in her four-page story. Hemingway's choppy Hills LIke White Elephants leaves much to be desired. It takes the reader teh entire length of the story to half-way figure out what the ...
- 234: Ernest Hemingway
- ... was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible. Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't get outside, he escaped to his room and read books. He loved to tell stories to his classmates, often insisting that a friend listen to one of his stories. In spite of his mother's desire, he played on the football team at Oak Park High School. As a student, Ernest was a perfectionist about his grammar and studied English with a fervor. He ... was Paris, where he could devote himself to his writing. He said, at the time, that the most difficult thing to write about was being a man. They could not live on income from his stories and so Ernest, again, wrote for The Toronto Star. Ernest took Hadley to Italy to show her where he had been during the war. He was devastated, everything had changed, everything was destroyed. Hadley ...
- 235: Never Ending Story
- Fantastica’s Endless Realm of Stories “Moo-oo-oon Child!” (Ende 225) Screams Bastian. His hopes of this endless story to rid its endless entity has nothing but created a nightmare in his and Atreyu’s world. From the Gnomics project ... because it justifies and gives a reason to connect with The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. Thus, this book deserves to be a significant part of the canon because it deepens the realistic illusion that stories come from other stories, it is identical in many ways to the monomyth cycle (by Joseph Campbell), and finally it reminds the reader of the need of belonging and love. This book employs the idea that stories come ...
- 236: The Short Board
- The Short Board Surfboards were invented for the pure pleasure of riding with mother nature’s waves. The long board was the first creation of surfing known to mankind. It was and still is very easy to ride, but it was almost to boring for some. So somebody decided to come up with a shorter more fun board. They called it the short board. It became very popular and won the hearts of many dedicated surfers. The short board first made its big impact in the mid 60’s. David Nuuhiwa was the one of the first men to ride a short board in the US. He was at the Huntington Beach ...
- 237: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... York and worked as an airline reservation clerk. Character It is said that Miss Lee personally resembles the tomboy she describes in the character of Scout. Her dark straight hair is worn cut in a short style. Her main interests, she says, are "collecting the memoirs of nineteenth century clergymen, golf, crime, and music." She is a Whig in political thought and believes in "Catholic emancipation and the repeal of the ... writing career: they promote logical thinking, and legal cases are an excellent source of story ideas. After she came to New York, she approached a literary agent with a manuscript of two essays and three short stories. Miss Lee followed his suggestion that she expand one of the stories into a novel. This eventually became To Kill A Mockingbird. After the success of her first novel, Miss Lee returned to Monroeville ...
- 238: Irony In Poe's Writings
- Irony In Poe's Writings Irony can be simply defined as the unexpected twist. Ironies occur in daily life. Edgar Allan Poe was excellent at writing ironies into his stories. He was born in the nineteenth century and raised by his adoptive parents, who caused him to have a difficult life. He was very intelligent, but lonely, because his peers alienated him. Later he became America’s first great editor and critic, as well as the father of the short story and the detective story. Edgar Allan Poe was an author who captured irony in every sense of the word. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is probably the most popular of all Poe’s stories. In the first paragraph, the narrator swears he is not mad. This is an irony, considering a person does not try to convince you he is not insane unless he is actually so. He ...
- 239: Mark Twain’s Greatest Downfall
- ... the lives of real people and also add a humorous twist to their lives. As most people know, Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Clemens. Samuel Clemens, despite his fame from his books and short stories, did not have success with his financial dealings. Samuel Clemens was a regular man who took financial risks and suffered from them greatly. Samuel Clemens was born the son of a Missouri lawyer, married Olivia Langdon, wrote various books, short stories, and other stories. He gave various lectures and traveled to many parts of the world. His life was always moving, always traveling from place to place. He was never happy with the success ...
- 240: The Life and Work of Ronald Dahl
- ... which eventually led to a stint in the Royal Air Force. After writing a story for the Saturday Evening Post about being shot down in the desert during World War II, he began to write short stories for a living. After publishing several compilations, critics began to accuse him of plot repetition; in response to this, and also some interesting bedtimes stories he made up for his daughters, he began to write children's literature (West 15). He later acknowledged the role of his own children in his creative process: "Had I not had children of ...
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