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- 951: Dylan Thomas
- ... was released in 1946. Three years later his child, Colm Garan Hart Thomas, was born. In 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems, was published. In addition to the work previously mentioned, he also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories, did a series lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, his famous play for voices.(Bookshelf 98) During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, he collapsed in ...
- 952: I Heard An Owl Call My Name
- ... Name “I Heard An Owl Call My Name” is a novel written by Margaret Craven, published in 1973. Margaret Craven was born in Helena, Montana and graduated from Stanford University. She started off with her short stories in a large number of American magazines. Some of these stories have been translated into other languages. “I Heard An Owl Call My Name” was her first complete novel. This story contains a lot of symbolic language. The setting takes place in Kingcome village, in ...
- 953: Their Eyes Were Watching God R
- ... Florida (DA, 2). They divorced shortly after they got married because they could not continue the idealistic dreams they had shared in their youth. Zora Hurston's second marriage to Albert Price III was also short lived. They were married in 1939 and divorced in 1943 (DA, 2). By the mid-1940s Hurston's writing career had began to falter. While living in New York, Hurston was arrested and charged with ... she desires. "Sing, dance, have fun with me," seems to be what Teacake is offering her-a new direction. Teacake is a good ol' boy. He takes Janie to the Everglades. He lets her tell stories. However, she becomes what she set out to, only when she leaves Teacake. When she leaves Teacake Janie returns to Eatonville and the book ends where it began, as Janie finishes or dialogue with her ... her mother told her to 'jump at de sun' when she was a young girl, Hurston self-confidently refused any feelings of victimization She like her character Janie, was not 'tragically colored.' In her early short story, "Drenched in Light," a wealthy white woman comments on Isis, the happy child of Hurston's your: 'I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul{spunk, 18}'( ...
- 954: The Red Badge Of Courage 3
- Stephen Crane has written many remarkable poems, short stories, and novels throughout his short life (He lived only to the age of 29). The Red Badge of Courage is a tale of war, life, responsibility, and duty. It has been considered the first ^great modern novel of war^( ...
- 955: Culture, and Arts of Argentina
- ... European conquest, some Native American literature was written down. However, most of it was transmitted from one generation to the next by professional reciters who memorized texts and narrated them. This early literature includes creation stories that endeavor to elucidate the origin of the universe, anecdotes about gods and their activities that offer an explanation of the workings of the world, and histories that correlate the genealogy of rulers. Creation stories were exceptionally prominent among the Tupi-Guarani people of what is in the present Paraguay, northern Argentina, and southwest Brazil, and they continue to affect writers of this region. The period of conquest and colonization ... adopted aggressive programs to establish cultural institutions that thrust them to the literary forerunners, despite their earlier cultural insignificance. Argentina played a large role in setting 19th-century literary trends. Esteban Echeverria wrote the influential short story "El matadero," which was in 1948 translated to the popular book "The Slaughterhouse." Especially significant is its use of allegory in portraying Argentina's dictatorial regime of the 1830s and 1840s: Internal political ...
- 956: In Memory Of Emily Grierson
- In the short story ¡§A Rose for Emily,¡¨ (1930) William Faulkner presents Miss Emily¡¦s instable state of mind through a missed sequence of events. Faulkner arranges the story in fractured time and then introduces characters who contribute ... the ¡§next generation, with its more modern ideas¡¨ comes along, Miss Emily refuses to accept them (1009). Miss Emily¡¦s mixed feeling about the past is reflected in the structure of the story. Unlike most stories, the narrator does not continue the plot with the next chronological event rather presents one that happened two years earlier. This switch once again mirrors Miss Emily¡¦s unclear state of mind. The story¡¦s ... While the townspeople pay attention to the old-fashioned house, they also pay the same respect to the owner of the house, Miss Emily. Faulkner effectively compares the house to Miss Emily. William Faulkner¡¦s short story ¡§A Rose for Emily¡¨ uses many literary devices such as plot to emphasize the theme of mixed memory. While most stores are written in chronological order, this story is broken up into characters ...
- 957: In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- ... 1. Title: “In Cold Blood.” 2. Truman Capote, one of America’s most famous writers was born in New Orleans in 1924 and died in California in 1984. He wrote both fiction and non- fiction stories. (for example this book, “ In cold blood”) short stories, novels, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films. 3. Number of pages: 336 4. Theme (s): - Murder - Feelings 5. The Clutter family. Herb Clutter: He’s the father of the murdered family. He’ ...
- 958: Coco Chanel
- ... the very fitting middle name of Bonheur, meaning happiness, by a nun in the convent hospital where she was delivered. The young Gabrielle enjoyed being in the company of friends and was always filled with stories, although they were often falsities (Current Biography 1). But there was one story that proved her intent to participate in fashion, and that was the habitual action of cutting up the curtains in the living ... for the lack of business (129). She also opened up a new branch in Cannes, the rediscovered Mediterranean playground. Chanel¹s habitual costume was a loose jersey cardigan jacket worn over a white shirt and short pleated skirt. Around her neck she wore knots of fakes pearls and other large, fake jewels (Current Biography 2). But for a short period in the early 1930¹s she worked with real stones. She introduced semi-precious stones in massive settings and supervised all the details to her liking. Coco opened up her official accessories boutique ...
- 959: My Friend T.W.
- ... way he was raised that he has such commanding personality traits. He is quite simply the most honest and trustworthy friend I have. And now the last ten years of our relationship, all in one short paragraph. We were, as I said, the best of friends pretty much throughout elementary and junior high. We started running with different crowds in high school, but still remained friends. Our senior year arrived and ... liberal my parents were, he decided to ask me to be his roommate. It took a lot of begging but soon my parents had given me the O.K. There are a thousand and one stories that I could tell, and even more that I can’t. It’s not to hard to imagine what it was like being seventeen and the only two kids in high school to have their ... since he arrived. The last time we spoke was about four months ago when he was home on leave. We went out for drinks on his second night back. We stayed up pounding beers, telling stories and basically just reminiscing about old times until six a.m. I haven’t heard from or seen him since that night. No surprise though, that’s just how we are. Everyone has those ...
- 960: What is America?
- ... society just as the American revolutionaries did in their American Liberty Newspapers. Other American writers have often reflected on the American battle spirit. One such writer was Stephen Crane. Crane wrote an enormous amount of stories and poems dealing with battle in his relatively short lifetime of 28 years. Crane did not always attempt to glorify war, but often wrote from a more realistic standpoint, conveying to the reader that although war is often necessary to achieve something, it can be devastatingly brutal. At other times, Crane lampooned war by using irony in his stories as was seen in “A Mystery of Heroism.” In a poem titled, “Do Not Weep Maiden, For War is Kind,” Crane takes a realistic approach to war, showing how the horrors of war can ...
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