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- 411: The Has Been And The Never Was
- ... been called The Has Been and The Never Was. They are both successful actors who pursued slightly different paths to fame. When the two were cast together in the same movie, their performances were nothing short of spectacular. They proved to all of Hollywood that they were A-list, bankable Talent, and deserved the professional respect accorded to people of this caliber. The movie that they appeared in was Pulp Fiction ... Lee Lewis of cinema, a pounding performer who doesn t care if he tears up the piano, as long as everybody is rocking (Chicago Sun-Times 10-94) the movie is a combination of several short-stories into a larger story. Tarantino ignores the concept of time, going forwards and backwards in such a way that the ending and the beginning of the movie are almost the same scene. This nonlinear ...
- 412: Cheever
- "Drinking and....then....umm...something comes after that...I think..." By. Before I begin my report of the short stories by Cheever I would like to say, "VERY REPETITIVE!" Thank you now the report may begin. One book that I can "connect to" is the book of short stories by Cheever. It isn't really the idea that the stories were set in the 40's that gets me, it's the idea that almost every story revolves around drinking. The whole ...
- 413: Alice Walkers Everyday Use
- What s Your Background? Alice Walker s life as an African-American novelist and poet has led to many award winning short-stories and books. She was raised in the southern state of Georgia and her parents were sharecroppers. This taught her that being an African-American can have its rough times. After being shot by a BB ... was eight, Alice remained blinded in one eye. Her ailment caused her to seclude herself from other children her age. Alice s feeling of being older than she was shows in her writing of the short story Everyday Use . One of the story s main character s, Maggie, is a direct relation to the beginning of Alice Walker s life. Maggie, though we don t know her exact age, appears ...
- 414: Ernest Hemingway Vs. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... examined in class dramatically differ in style as well as subject matter. As far as style, Fitzgerald definitely takes the award for eloquence with his flowery descriptive language whereas Hemingway's genius comes from his short, simple sentences. As for subject, Hemingway writes gritty, earthy material while on the other hand Fitzgerald's writing is centered around social hierarchy and longing to be with another person. Although the works that these two literary masters are so uniquely different, one thing that they have in common are their melancholy and often tragic conclusions. To explore the two distinct writing styles, one can begin with how the stories do. (That is, how they begin too.) The opening paragraphs of Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" and Hemingway's "Indian Camp" epitomize the basic difference between their writing styles. "Winter Dreams" begins, "Some of the caddies ... 15). The thoroughly descriptive four-line, one-sentence opening versus the two-lines consisting of two sentences demonstrates Fitzgerald's exploitation of words as opposed to Hemingway's less is more principle with his multiple short and simple sentences. Another distinction between the two styles is that Fitzgerald narrated much of what the characters think and feel whereas Hemingway, for the most part with the exception of "Soldier's Home," ...
- 415: The Writings of David Foster Wallace
- The Writings of David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace, a 34 year old teacher at Illinois State University has been considered by many to be a literary it-boy. In his short stories he attempts to open up the reader to a world of reality. Through his writing he describes what the common writer refuses to write--the nature of topics and thoughts only spoken about indirectly. One ... example of this is also in the story Girl With Curious Hair: ...Mr. Wonderful was doing something with the bright thing to the man who was the girls father (Wallace 74). Also in his stories, in the structure category, he comes into a situation very abruptly. This makes the reader have to go back and read the story again to make sure that their assumptions were correct. Such as ...
- 416: The Landlady: The Power of Details
- The Landlady: The Power of Details In the short story "The Landlady", by Roald Dahl, a quick overview will not accomplish an effective response. Short stories are created with hopes that the reader will infer to their own conclusion. The writer establishes a tool that enables a reader to think about what is presented and keep the questions rolling in ...
- 417: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The short story I have chosen to read by Washington Irving is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. This story takes place in a little village on the Hudson River which by some is called Greensburgh, but which ... they came to the church bridge, the trooper vanished. All of these tales sunk deep into Ichabod s mind. When he was on his way home from the Van Tassel s party, all of the stories of the ghosts and goblins came crowding upon him. In order to get home, he had to pass the very place where all of those stories had taken place. As he started to approach the tree in the road, he began to whistle. The whistle was answered with a blast sweeping sharply through the dry branches. About two hundred yards ...
- 418: Critical Analysis Of Soldiers
- Many of the titles of Ernest Hemingway's stories are ironic, and can be read on a number of levels; Soldier's Home is no exception. Our first impression, having read the title only, is that this story will be about a old soldier ... was in high school. His father parks his car in the same place; it's still the same car; the girls walking down the street look like the same girls, except more of them have short hair now. Imamura comments, "Krebs admires them, yet he protects himself from the danger of sexual involvement as if he were still suffering from a previous affair" (Imamura, 102). And Daniel Slaughter observes that "One ... waffles; she will never see that he isn't the boy he was in high school -- or perhaps, the boy she thought he was. Works Cited: Hemingway, Ernest. "Soldier's Home", from Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories. (New York, NY : Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition) 1995. Imamura, Tateo. " 'Soldier's Home:' Another Story of a Broken Heart." (1996). The Hemingway Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall, pp. 102. Kansas City Star ...
- 419: A Separate Peace - Phineas And Gene
- ... 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' ...
- 420: Robert Penn Warren
- Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren, born in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905, was one of the twentieth century's most eminent American writers. He was a distinguished novelist and poet, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and coeditor of numerous textbooks. He also a founding editor of The Southern Review, a journal of literary criticism and political thought. The primary influences on Robert Warren's career as a poet were probably his Kentucky boyhood, and his relationships with his father and his maternal grandfather. As a boy, Warren spent many hours on his grandfather's farm, absorbing stories of the Civil War and the local tobacco wars between growers and wholesalers, the subject of his first novel, Night Riders. His grandfather, Thomas Gabriel Penn, had been a calvary officer in the Civil War ... John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, and others interested in poetry. As part of The Fugitives, a private group that met off campus, he delved deeply into poetry, and his first poems were published in their short-lived quarterly. Warren had a remarkable capacity for friendship, and he was in touch with these men all of their lives. For years Tate was "first critic" of his poetry. After graduating from Vanderbilt ...
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