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- 61: American Criticism In Short St
- American Criticism Nineteen-Fifty-Five by Alice Walker and On the Road by Langston Hughes both use a wide variety of implicit and explicit criticisms of American society within their short stories. Both essays focus on White culture vs. Black individuality. This focus opens the door to implicit criticisms such as racism, hypocrisy and discrimination. These examples are especially prevalent in the story On the Road. Hughes ... no thought to the fact that Black culture really is not very different from white culture, besides the physical colour. There is another factor involved with this widespread topic, which is social expectations. In both stories, it is an obvious expectation that the white race should dominate the world society and have nothing to do with black culture. Generally speaking, racial criticism in American society has progressed in many ways. ...
- 62: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Paul Laurence Dunbar by English 102 August 4, 1995 Outline Thesis: The major accomplishments of Paul Laurence Dunbar's life during 1872 to 1938 label him as being an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. I. Introduction II. American poet A. Literary English B. Dialect poet 1. "Oak and Ivy" 2. "Majors and Minors" 3. "Lyrics of Lowly Life" 4. "Lyrics of the Hearthside" 5. "Sympathy" III. Short story writer A. Folks from Dixie (1898) B. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900) C. The Heart of Happy Hollow (1904) IV. Novelist A. The Uncalled (1898) B. The Love of Landry (1900) C. The Fanatics (1901) D. The Sport of the Gods (1902) V. Conclusion Paul ...
- 63: Where Are You Going, Where Hav
- ... on to get her master s degree from the University of Wisconsin. Oates turned much often in her writing to everyday characters, which she often placed in situations that were both psychologically and socially terrifying. (Short Stories For Students 258) Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is based on a killer in the southwest names Charles Smitty Schmid was charged of rape and murder of three young girls in the ... a man who intends to kidnap, rape and murder her. She (Connie) is caught between her roles as a daughter, friend, sister, and object of sexual desire uncertain of which one represents the real her. (Short Stories For Students 259) Creighton writes Oates captures so well the viciousness, cheapness and narcissism of life for Connie and her friends who have nothing better to do than to stroll up and down ...
- 64: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... 8). Zora step in collecting folklore took some tremendous courage for "Southern black folklore had never been collected by one of the folk"(Lyons 60). This folklore later became the source of her novels and short stories. Zora's true career began in the famed Harlem Renaissance of the 1930's. This was a period in which African American culture was formally introduced into modern literature (Lyons 35-7). In hopes of ... conflicts between Langston and Zora, and so broke up what could have been an awesome African American duo (Lyons 51-7). Despite such a set back Zora's career continued with many popular novels and short stories. In "January of 1934, Zora went to Bethune-Cookman College to establish a school of dramatic arts based on pure Negro expression"(Zora 203). While focusing on her theatrical aspects of her career ...
- 65: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... 8). Zora step in collecting folklore took some tremendous courage for "Southern black folklore had never been collected by one of the folk"(Lyons 60). This folklore later became the source of her novels and short stories. Zora's true career began in the famed Harlem Renaissance of the 1930's. This was a period in which African American culture was formally introduced into modern literature (Lyons 35-7). In hopes of ... conflicts between Langston and Zora, and so broke up what could have been an awesome African American duo (Lyons 51-7). Despite such a set back Zora's career continued with many popular novels and short stories. In "January of 1934, Zora went to Bethune-Cookman College to establish a school of dramatic arts based on pure Negro expression"(Zora 203). While focusing on her theatrical aspects of her career ...
- 66: Edgar Allan Poe 4
- The short story writer, which I have chosen to research, is Edgar Allen Poe. After reading one of his works in class, I realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics ... true for the narrator. As we picture in our minds the extreme decay and decomposition, we can feel as though the life around it is also crumbling. Narration is also an element in Poe's short story style that appears to link all of the stories together. He has a type of creativity, which lets the reader see into the mind of the narrator or the main character of the story. Many of the characters in Poe's stories seem ...
- 67: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... from one room to another. To a small boy, even finding his dormitory was a journey of mystery. The school may have been reproduced in some of the darkly romantic houses of Poe's later stories. Edgar was eleven when the Allans returned to Richmond. Richmond in the 1820's was a good place for a boy to live. It was still a small enough town for the fields, swamps, and ... a poor seamstress, but she welcomed Poe into her home and took care of him. Outwardly, it was a do-nothing period for him, but inwardly it was significant. He wrote a group of unpublished short stories. Even more importantly, he began to dramatize himself as one whom "unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster". He probably had an inherited emotional instability which fed his feeling of persecution. Winner of Story ...
- 68: Short Stor
- Character’s Role in Making a Story Character, stories are affected in many ways by this seemingly small aspect of a short story. Just the use of certain characters in a story can change the way we perceive a story. Some characters hardly receive a mention in the story, but that small part can change the outcome. Other characters have traits about them that the entire story is based around. Whatever story you look at character has a huge role in determining how the story ends. The major character in most stories is a dynamic character, they bring most of the action into a story. In the story "A good man is Hard to Find" the grandmother is a prime example of a dynamic character. The ...
- 69: Edgar Allan Poe - Life And Works
- ... was born in Baltimore in 1811 and 1813. He has led a very interesting life. He is the most written about American author. His life is full of problems and tragedies, and yet, like his stories, is very complex, mysterious, and sometimes even horrifying. Poe was orphaned at a very young age. His mother died at the young age of twenty-one and his father disappeared from his life soon after ... West Point in 1830. Poe was a very good cadet at West Point. He impressed other cadets with his ability to make up rhymes poetry and his mysterious ways. His days at West Point were short, however. John Allan would not send money for his intuition and board at West Point. John Allan assumed that his financial duties with Poe had ended when Poe entered West Point. He refused to pay ... narrators fear and pain. The thumpish rhymes symbolizes the beating heart of narrator, giving the reader a creepy feeling, like when they can hear their own heartbeat when they feel fear. Poe also wrote many short stories. He did not take these short stories seriously because they were stories written for money. His horror stories are the most famous and the most read. Poe's horror stories are different from ...
- 70: Jack London’s Apparent Conflic
- ... men overcoming fate, but instead focuses on many different categories of struggles, including man versus man, man versus nature, and man versus society. Examples of London’s intertwining of struggles can be seen in such stories as White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and “To Build a Fire”. Jack London, whose life symbolized the power of will, was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. His vigorous stories of men and animals against the environment, and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience. An illegitimate child, London passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. (Walcutt 8) At the ... thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it made him decide to turn to education and pursue a career in writing. His years in the Klondike searching for gold left their mark in his best short stories; among them, The Call of the Wild, and White Fang. His novel, The Sea-Wolf, was based on his experiences at sea. His work embraced the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism in ...
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