My character for the project was Dale Harding. I want my short story to be a prequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The setting will be inside the ward after a meeting. The meeting was focus once again on Harding’s wife and Harding is reflecting back on the meeting. He is laying down in his bed before sleep reflecting on his day. He is completely blind to how Nurse Rachet is playing them and he beginnings to overthink his situation with his wife. At first he denies it and then become more and more irritated with his situation with his wife. Eventually his issues spiral out of control from just his wife to everything going on in his life. He realizes everything in his life is not right, that everything is pointless. By the end of the story…
Danse des Ghazies from Egyptian Nights is the ninth movement from the Ballet Suite, Op. 50a (Nuits d'Egypte), written by Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861-1906). While a famous Russian composer of Romantic music, he was also a pianist and a music professor. Arensky composed the ballet Egyptian Nights in 1900 and it was first published for piano; however, the score of the entire ballet was never published. Aleksandr Orlov recorded the overture of the ballet with the Great Radio Symphony Orchestra of the USSR by 1946 and in 1979, Boris Demchenko and the Radio Symphony Orchestra of the USSR recorded the entire suite.…
This isn't your typical everyday reading material, this is a short story that is told in five sections that is filled with death and the hopelessness to accept change over time and to adapt the effective coping mechanisms for everyday life. Everyone, should be familiar with the old saying, "The only thing that is continuous is change."…
Deeply religious person, Petro did not drink alcohol, and that made him an outsider among the villagers. He and his wife Luba lived in a simple hut with the earthen floor; as it was common in this part of the country, the walls were laid with bricks made from steer manure, hay, and clay. Petro worked in the flourmill; the extra flour hidden under his shirt was bartered for burning oil and other necessities, while Luba tended to a couple of chickens, pig, and vegetable garden. Both in their forties, they did not have children. For years, Luba wept and prayed for a child, yet as the years were going by; the hope for a child became more and more elusive.…
"Tell them not to kill me" by Juan Rulfo was an interesting short story. It had many strong emotions in it, death, sadness, hopelessness, and even the littlest bit of love.…
| A story about someone or something that the writer had experienced or heard about.…
Arthur Schopenhauer once said, “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” All of the characters in the stories learn the significance of what the things they once had. One similar theme that runs throughout those three works, “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop, and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is the loss of something significant. Each story or poem has a different way of ending peacefully and handling the loss.…
In short, this fiction story, covers the ideas of “ what happiness is? And what is the cost of happiness?…
The nonfiction stories I have decided to write about are; “Who Will Light the Incense When Mother’s Gone?” by Andrew Lam and “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. Both of these stories are about a significant event in the authors lives in which they choose to write about. “Salvation” is a story about the author trying to find his way into the church and finally see the light or Jesus so his soul will be saved and his sins forgiven. ; “Who Will Light the Incense When Mother’s Gone?” was a writing about his mother having a hard time with the American culture and how her son, the author Andrew Lam, will be when he leaves home and how the traditions she raised him on slowly will disappear along with her when she passes along. Both stories seem to send a message of events in the author’s lives where they wrote about them because of certain memories in their lives, and I will briefly go through each story in different ways.…
The most interesting short stories that caught my undivided attention were: “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” by Robert Olen Butler. These stories were both fascinating and intriguing in the sense that they made me feel like if I was the actual character. You could feel the pain and anguish the characters felt, even the desperation. It got to a point that I felt pity for the protagonist whom in both stories where narrating. Here we can see how someone can feel so desperate that they think the only way out is by taking their lives. Both Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Robert Olen Butler created an incredible form of fiction that makes you question if the scenes in the stories can truly happen in reality.…
The Narrator experiences a heart attack that slows him down considerably. The Narrator is married and thinks about his wife Vera, who is nearly his age, but because she still has her health she has gone off for several weeks to hike the Appalachian Trail and gets to enjoy many other activities that he can't partake in. The fact that the Narrator is at home quite a bit gives him time to dwell on subjects that he might not have given so much attention to if he still had his health.…
The song “Simple Man” by Hank Williams Jr is the perfect example of how my grandpa lived his life. My grandpa was a simple kind of man he did not own expensive cars or big houses. He wanted things to be as simple as possible just so he had more time and money for his family. He would say that troubles will come but they will pass quickly, he was very right about that. When I was around 15 and looking for my first job he told me to find something that I loved and understood, if I didn’t I would not enjoy my job much.…
We have read many fictional short stories during this course. In O’Conner’s, “First Confession,” fear was the motivation that made the young boy not want to participate in his first confession. Different people in his own family had made him believe that it was a scary task and he felt that it should be avoided at all cost. In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” by Katherine Porter, the end of the grandmother’s life was the source of her reminiscing over all of the things that she felt had been incomplete over her life. As she remembers the bad times that she had, the reader could always see the good things that had come out of each of those “bad times.” Minnie, I am sure you have read Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” The one that motivated the main character to murder the old man was complete insanity. All of these stories and others show various ways to motivate the characters.…
Many people may believe that the short story “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is a very remarkable story to recall. This story teaches the readers a life lesson that most couples have to deal with. Unfortunately, some couples do not know how to deal with their differences so they just ignore their issues which only makes things worse. I would most likely remember “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway five years from now because Hemingway uses symbolism and conflict to address the message of his story.…
The two short stories I haven chosen is The Knife by Judah Waten and Yellow Brick Road by Witi Ihimaera. The Knife, is about is a short story about a young Italian- Plinio, who has immigrated to Australia from a poor village in Calabria, in a very desolate part of Southern Italy. Plinio then starts to remember about the life he had back home and that he lived in poverty and had a very modest life. Then it describes that Plinio walks home from work and sees a girl (Mavis Keer) with a group of people and her boyfriend (Tommy Lawler). Tommy then sees Plinio looking at his girlfriend and is jealous and decides to humiliate him in front of his friends. One night when Plinio was on his way home, he sees Tommy and his friends. Tommy decides to bash Plinio up. As Tommy starts to punch him, Plinio took out his father knife and stabs Tommy. Tommy friends run away living Plinio, Tommy and Mavis in the street. The story Yellow Brick Road is about a Maoris family that travels to Wellington from their village Waituhi. They are travelling in a car for nearly two days. The characters are thinking back about their village and are missing the family members. When they are about to rich their destination, the main charaters dad stops the car. Far away they see the lights of Wellington, steaming with the rain down. The main character say “so….beautiful. Just as I’d imagined it to be. Just as I’d pretended it would be. Emerald City”…