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- 491: Native American Literature
- ... different tribes who migrated to what is known today as America. Considering each tribe held diverse cultures, had different living styles, religious matters and governments, one would also think their oral tradition of poems and stories would be dissimilar. “The Walam Olum”, “Song of the Sky Loom”, and “I have Killed the Deer”, are all accounts taken from different tribes. After reading their many folk tales, one not only finds that ... for the land. “High Horses Courting” displays a small amount of nature and its attributes, but gives an account about a Native American man finding love. This creation displays the beliefs they have. All four stories have interesting aspects within them demonstrating what Native American Literature is like. “The Walam Olum” is a creative story brought to us by the Delaware Native American tribe. It is a myth that demonstrates their ... was created and how life began. Each Manito, which is a god of evil or good creations, is what the Delaware felt created life and its methods. The actual writing of the myth is in short descriptive phrases, leaving out any unnecessary words or clauses. It speaks as if Earth and Nature are people, a part of their kin. The Delaware use detailed characteristics to describe the universe that surrounds ...
- 492: Allegory In Young Goodman Brown
- ... hour was gloom." Works Cited Capps, Jack L. "Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown", Explicator, Washington D.C., 1982 Spring, 40:3, 25. Easterly, Joan Elizabeth. "Lachrymal Imagery in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1991 Summer, 28:3, 339-43. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Young Goodmam Brown", The Story and Its Writer, 4th ed. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995, 595-604. Shear, Walter. "Cultural Fate and Social Freedom in Three American Short Stories", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1992 Fall, 29:4, 543-549. Tritt, Michael. "Young Goodman Brown and the Psychology of Projection", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1986 Winter, 23:1, ...
- 493: John Steinbeck
- ... safe, practical course in life, in order to support his family. John enjoyed literature from an early age on. His mother read him the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the stories of King Arthur. John attended Salinas High School, an experience he generally disliked, but one bright spot in his high school carrer was his ninth grade English teacher, Miss Cupp. She admired the compositions he wrote and encouraged him to continue with his writing. Throughout high school, John spent most of his free time writing stories in his room. John graduated from HS in 1919 and then went to Stanford University. John wanted to study to be a writer, but his mother wanted him to be something practical, like a lawyer ... Greek. He convinced university officials to let him learn human anatomy alongside the medical students. Dissecting cadavers would help him “know more about people”, he explained. Steinbeck’s creative writing teacher taught him to write stories that were “true.” She didn’t mean the events in the story had to have actually happened, but instead the story and characters must reflect real human feelings and conflicts. During his college years, ...
- 494: Lewis Carroll In Wonderland
- Through the writing of Lewis Carroll in the story Alice in Wonderland the difference between fantasy and reality can be seen through the eyes of a child. The stories created by Carroll are a combination of make believe stories made to entertain children he talked to on an almost daily basis. Seen as odd by adults in society Carroll better associated himself with children because of his stammering disability when speaking. Carroll the man ... Modern Rivals (1879) which is one of historical interest ("Carroll, Lewis"). Carroll's inspiration to write Alice in Wonderland came from his entertaining of the Liddell children. Under the supervision of the governess, Carroll read stories to entertain them on their visits to his college room, where he taught mathematics. The children's father was dean of Christ Church College where Carroll taught (Hudson 264). Alice Liddell the oldest of ...
- 495: Diamonds Are My Best Friend
- ... is difficult for one to approach this subject without a sense of heroism and romanticism of it s rich history. One of my favorite parts of going to the ballpark is listening to the fascinating stories of old timers, the men who have loved the game since childhood. They remember Musial, Maris, and Mantle. They can tell you stories of hearing Hank Aaron hitting his record breaking home run on the radio, or watching Lou Gehrig as a young child. Many of the greatest baseball stories can be heard from these men, living encyclopedias if what the game once was, and it today. Someday I will be sitting in the box seats of a ballpark, and a young child will ...
- 496: Yours, Jack (about Jack The Ri
- In 1888 there was a string of murders in the London East End, near the Whitechapel region. By the end of the killing spree, (Which could have been as short as three months or as long as ten as few as five.), as many as nineteen women or as few as five would be dead, at the hands of this serial killer. And yet this ... why Jack became famous was not because he was the first serial killer, but because he was the first serial killer who struck in a densely populated area with a literate public. This sparked newspaper stories which attempted to chain together unrelated and disjointed facts in the hopes of being the first to find the killer, while attacking the police who seemed to have no leads. The first confirmed Ripper murder ... forward. Witnesses such as Mrs. Sarah Colwell who stated that she had observed stains of blood on Brady street. Her testimony has lead to a theory in recent years that the body was moved. Meanwhile stories of a murderer named "Leather Apron" began to appear. The stories mentioned brutal murders of women around the east en in grim detail. The public snap these articles up, driving reporters to make their ...
- 497: The Story
- ... of the story and feel the emotions, enjoy the happiness, share the sorrow, and partake in the action. The few that do appreciate it well. One such person was Ned Devine. He truly adored all stories. Whether they were children s or adult s from all around the world, he truly worshiped nothing else. He knew many of them by heart and could recite them word for word after having read the books and seen the movies at least twenty times each. Now however, he was tired of reading and watching the stories of others. Wearied he was of the few yet constant imperfections in the ideas of the material he so well enjoyed over the many decades of his life. Worn was he of the stories that were too short, or that had unsatisfying conclusions he made a decision never before considered during his long lifetime; he was going to write the perfect story because he had discovered in the ...
- 498: Mark Twain
- ... humor, realism, love of democracy, and a strong hatred of shame and oppression. At least one of those characterizations were evident in all of Mark Twain's novels and books, along with his speeches and short stories. It was Twain's humor and satire that first brought him national fame as a writer. His book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, published in 1867, was his humorous stories of life that existed on the frontier (Twain 126). That year his humor and satire allowed him to be able to travel around the world to speak to people. He wrote of these speeches ...
- 499: Foreshadowing
- Foreshadowing `Flannery O’Conners short story, “A good man is hard to find” seemed confusing, as I reed from beginning to end the first time. I read over it a few more times and then began to see the foreshadowing ... the story was very unsetteling and unexpected the first time I reed it. However, After reading over it several times the forshadowing used by O’Connor throughout the entire story became much clearer. In this short story the foreshadowing O’Conners uses will give hints to the reader on who the characters will meet, what is going to happen to them, and where the climax will take place. Foreshadowing is ether ... will meet up with the Misfit. This is a writing technique that some writer’s use to give the reader small clues of who they might meet up with in the later part of there stories. Another thing forshadowing can add to a story can clue the reader in on what will happen to the characters. A good example from O’Conners story is when she is describing what the ...
- 500: "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Necklace": Money and Its Control on People
- "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Necklace": Money and Its Control on People Did you ever want something but couldn't afford it? The short stories, "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Necklace", deal with two women's struggles to make someone else happy and how fulfilling your own wants can hurt you. The difference between these stories is how when push came to shove, the way the characters chose to spend their money. These two interesting and ironic stories revolve around one main character. They both try to make their lives ...
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