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- 431: Old Neighborhood
- 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" ...
- 432: "Failure Is A Step Towards Success"
- "Failure Is A Step Towards Success" It is amazing when people are faced with failure, how they can turn it around to create success from that failure. In both short stories "The Lamp At Noon" and "The Blue Kimono", George, Marthe and Ellen showed some type of failure. Then, turning it around and making a success out of it. Ellen was the first one that I noticed, since the first short story was "The Lamp At Noon". She definitely failed at first, but picked herself up and created a little success. This was shown when she was being nasty to Paul, making him sound like ...
- 433: Ernest Hemingway
- ... the "Kansas City Star", his parents thought of him as a foolish, young boy. Ernest realized the difficulty of keeping a job at such a young age and returned home, only to stay for a short while.1 In May of 1918 Ernest left America to join the Red Cross in Italy at the height of World War I. When Ernest arrived in Italy he was assigned the duty of searching for survivors and retrieving the victim's body parts. During this job he would notice the expressions on the faces of the deceased and he would write stories about them, as well as write articles for the local war paper. Ernest grew restless with this job and requested a change of assignment. He was granted that change and was posted to American Red ... that Agnes' engagement had been broken off, but his wounded pride prevented him from forgiving her.7 After his mother had a nervous breakdown, Ernest moved out of his parent's house, and began writing short stories8 at Walloon Lake in Michigan9. His first book published was titled Our Time. The first story in the book, "Indian Camp", establishes the life-style of the hero Nick Adams. Nick is an ...
- 434: The Life and Work of Washington Irving
- ... American author to achieve international fame, who created the fictional characters Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane. The strict acceptance and standing popularity of Irving's tales involving these characters proved the effectiveness of the short story in American literary form. Irving was born in New York City, Irving studied law at private schools. After serving in several law offices and traveling in Europe for his health from 1804 to 1806 ... a living. In England he became the good friend of several leading men of letters, including Thomas Campbell, Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Moore. Under the alias of Geoffrey Crayon. Irving wrote the essays and short stories collected in the Sketch Book in (1819-1820), his most popular work, which was widely acclaimed in both England and the United States for its grace, and humor. The collection's two most famous ...
- 435: The Awakening: An Analysis
- ... deeply positioned within her psyche and not amenable to resolution through a shopping spree, an affair, or a minor rebellion against her husband's authority. Kate Chopin's work consists of a large body of short stories and a few novels, among which The Awakening is generally regarded as the most outstanding. It has been suggested that from the perspective of another century, her stories seem contrived and dated. In spite of this, the novel is important in the view of critics because it is the best novel to be published by a self-consciously Southern writer before the ...
- 436: Rudyard Kipling
- Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling, born in Bombay, India, on December 30, 1865, made a significant contribution to English Literature in various genres including poetry, short story and novel. His birth took place in an affluent family with his father holding the post of Professor of Architectural Sculpture at the Bombay School of Art and his mother coming from a family ... team. Returning to India in 1882 he worked as a newspaper reporter and a part-time writer and this helped him to gain a rich experience of colonial life which he later presented in his stories and poems. In 1886 he published his first volume of poetry, "Departmental Ditties" and between 1887 and 1889 he published six volumes of short stories set in and concerned with the India he had come to know and love so well. When he returned to England he found himself already recognized and acclaimed as a brilliant writer. Over ...
- 437: The Bistro Styx
- 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" ...
- 438: Rudyard Kipling
- Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling, born in Bombay, India, on December 30, 1865, made a significant contribution to English Literature in various genres including poetry, short story and novel. His birth took place in an affluent family with his father holding the post of Professor of Architectural Sculpture at the Bombay School of Art and his mother coming from a family ... team. Returning to India in 1882 he worked as a newspaper reporter and a part-time writer and this helped him to gain a rich experience of colonial life which he later presented in his stories and poems. In 1886 he published his first volume of poetry, "Departmental Ditties" and between 1887 and 1889 he published six volumes of short stories set in and concerned with the India he had come to know and love so well. When he returned to England he found himself already recognized and acclaimed as a brilliant writer. Over ...
- 439: Ancient Stories Of The Flood
- Stories of a primeval flood exist in all parts of the world, virtually every branch of the human race has traditions of a Great Flood that destroyed all of mankind, except one family. The closest parallel ... ship also carried a male and female of every sort of living creature, so that after the flood the animals were able to reproduce their various kinds and restock the world. In all the flood stories the hero is rescued by reaching high ground. The mountain of deliverance is usually identified by some prominent local hill or elevation. These traditions of the flood, though mixed with polytheism and some evident myth ...
- 440: Storytelling
- ... humankind evolve into a wiser species by allowing those with enough attentiveness and intelligence to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors. The Chinese culture, like many others world wide, base their beliefs largely on stories passed down from generation to generation. Because stories are told and retold, alterations and even new versions appear. Such is the case in " Fa Mu Lan," for more than one version is known to exist to this day. Many times the changes in ... a story are to put its message on a certain level for an individual to understand. If the change is to keep the message updated with society, the version would be a modernized one. These stories affect the stories with a flavor of their own personal character. In The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston utilizes stories told to her by her mother as a device to introduce readers to some ...
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