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- 421: Bram Stoker
- ... the Dublin Castle. His literary career began as early as 1871 and in that year he took up a post as the unpaid drama critic for the "Evening Mail," while at the same time writing short stories. His first literary "success" came a year later when, in 1872, The London Society published his short story "The Crystal Cup." As early as 1875 Stoker's unique brand of fiction had come to the forefront. In a four part serial called the "Chain of Destiny," were themes that would become ...
- 422: Flying Home
- ... man striving to find himself in a world where he is hardly noticed. This novel won him much respect in the eyes of the literary community. Earlier in his career, Ellison also wrote many influential short stories. "Flying Home", is one of Ellison’s stories that call the attention of all concerned with the basic essence of human freedom. In "Flying Home", Ellison creates a provocative statement about the Black situation in the south in the 1940’s that ...
- 423: Operation Barbarossa: A Good Plan?
- ... this in turn plunged Hitler into a war on two fronts. The Germans, and Hitler in particular were stretching their forces too thin and were overconfident that the Russians would be defeated in a very short time. Adolf Hitler's overconfidence justifiably stemmed from the crushing defeats which his army had administered in Poland, France, Norway, Holland, Belgium and almost certainly Great Britain had the English Channel not stood in his ... unresisted submission. With every indication that British bombers and troops would be within range of Romania and the Barbarossa supply lines, a major invasion of Yugoslavia as well as Greece had to take place at short notice.vi This invasion however distracting, added fuel to Hitler's confidence when his forces conquered both Yugoslavia and Greece in a matter of weeks, but, these delays would eventually prove costly as the unprepared ... a single pound of grain, for the enemy if they had to retreat.vii To the Germans, this staunch and often suicidal determination was unnerving and it had a negative effect on their fighting morale. Stories of this Russian tenacity spread widely among the Germans. Tales of Russian fighter pilots who wouldn't bail out if shot down but would crash into German fuel trucks; of tanks that were on ...
- 424: Tales of the City
- ... character's response to the given situation. There are several departures from this style, which are explained further on in this book report. The chapters are suited for the readers of a newspaper. Each is short, usually between two and four pages in length. This makes the reading simple to digest. Each chapter equates to an individual episodes of a television soap opera. Chapters link their engaging scenarios together to form ... Mary Ann, but the light dawned for her. She explained that she had just told Anna that there were not enough straight men in San Francisco. He invited her up to his apartment, which was short and agreeable. "The Matriarch" ch.16 p.57-59: Edgar returns home after his ‘meeting', and makes up an intricate lie about it. It is evident that Frannie is drunk and discouraged. Not realizing it ... Tolliver (Mouse). From nowhere Michael calls Mona declaring that another relationship is down the tubes. In Michael's mind this is a typical stereotype for himself as a gay man. Relationships are supposed to be short term, never everlasting, & far & few between. His only comfort is that this particular relationship was able to get to the furniture buying stage. The relationship is in control, neither of the two men. Concerned ...
- 425: The Cat In The Rain: Self Control and Communication
- ... to her, or a sacrifice of his needs, it was his responsibility for her well being and it was his self control that had slipped. John Updike pushes the realms of self control in his short story ‘A & P’. A young man one of thousands across America slaving there summer away in a grocery store, is interrupted form the usual day at work when a group of girls walk in wearing ... job? Just as I had asked myself why was the father going so fast in that boat if his daughter was so blatantly miserable. Ernest Hemingway also deals with self control and communication in his short story ‘The Cat In The Rain’. Hemingway opens up the story during a dismal rainy day. It is a common fact that people tend to become more grouchy during rainy days. The wife Hemingway introduces ... and lack of communication thus creating a negative representation of husband wife. The result in the end is George telling her to shut up. This lack of self control which we have seen in these short stories and in everyday life, is hurtful and damaging. There is know explanation for these actions. We can only ask the question why are you doing this? Why are you quitting your job? Or ...
- 426: Karen Louise Erdrich
- ... that her interest in writing is due to her lack of exposure to television and movies while she was growing up. She recalls that her father gave her and her sisters the encouragement to write stories by paying them a nickel for each story they wrote. In 1972 she received a scholarship for Dartmouth College. This was the first year that women were admitted to Dartmouth and was the year that ... realized that the different people she met had their own problems and confusions and that she wanted to write about them. Louise enrolled in an MA program at John Hopkins University. She wrote poems and stories while she was there that incorporated her Indian heritage which later became part of her books. She started sending her work to publishers and most of them rejected her work. She returned to Dartmouth as ... attended one of her poetry readings. When he moved away, the two kept in touch, sending their work back and forth with letters. In 1980 they both moved to New Hampshire and began collaborating on short stories. When their short story “The World’s Greatest Fisherman” won five thousand dollars they decided to expand it into a novel, Love Medicine. A year later they were married. In 1984, Love Medicine ...
- 427: Women Characters In Lone Range
- ... held the family together with their gentle power, and medicine women were the local psychologists, therapists, physicians, and marriage counselors to entire tribes. In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie s short story collection about life on the Spokane Indian reservation, Alexie depicts characters that are world-wearied and heavy with 500 years worth of humiliation and rejection. They have lived their lives in the confines of ... inevitable feeling of hopelessness, one can see with a deeper look into the reservation that they firmly wrestle the battles that face them. The most immediate hardships that many of the women in Alexie s stories face are the struggles to hold together their crumbling families. For example, Victor s mother must endure the various storms of her life: her husband s alcoholism, the lack of basic necessities, her own depression ... faults, like many other women on the reservation, she painstakingly maintains the strength to try keeping her family together or at least show them her love. Like the mother in another one of Alexie s stories who sings to her child; I m singing an its-a-good-day song. She smiles and I have to smile with her. (p. 144) This small act of making a child smile can ...
- 428: Rita Dove Literary Analysis
- Rita Dove: Literary Analysis Rita Dove has written many different kinds of poetry. She also wrote books, short stories plays and all types of literature. This essay will focus on specifics of her writing by analyzing three pieces of poetry that Rita Dove has written. The works we will be looking at are In ... Styx, which is a small excerpt from a works entitled Mother Love, Dove does make references to home. This poem is a recasting of the story of Demeter and Persephone from ancient Greek mythology. In short, Hades kidnaps Persephone from her home, and Demeter, her mother goes insane trying to get her back. Demeter is able to go after Persephone only to find that too late Persephone has already adapted ...
- 429: Guilt As Reparation For Sin In
- ... dissatisfaction with the novel, he collects and burns all of the copies of this book that he can find shortly after its release. He also burns Seven Tales of My Native Land, a collection of short stories he began work on while in college. Two years after his failure as a publisher, Hawthorne has five of his stories published in the Salem Gazette. In 1834, some of Hawthorne s stories are published in New England Magazine. From 1836 until 1842 Hawthorne lives in Boston. He is given the job of editor of ...
- 430: John Steinbeck
- ... his talent and he was given unimportant assignments with no value"(Morrow 75). Numerous times he failed to show up at work and was soon after fired. Barely scraping by John wrote a collection of short stories. He went to two publishing companies and he was shot down by both. One explained that they would not publish an unknown writer, they other refused to publish short stories. Heart-broken and broke John got a job as a waiter on a California bound freighter and headed back to his old job at Lake Tahoe. To just make things a little harder ...
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