The Tea Egg By Xiannhe Shen Analysis
Flash Fiction Literary Essay
Flash Fiction, were simply very short stories. According to “Flash Fiction Forward” written by James Thomas and Robert Shepard where they wrote about a genre of writing that has been very popular now and what Flash Fiction actually is. “The Tea Egg” written by Xinhe Shen is a Flash Fiction story that includes what the main characteristics of Flash Fiction is. Flash Fiction is a genre of writing that includes symbolism, a important theme, and brevity.
In “The Tea Egg” written by Xinhe Shen is a story about a girl riding on a train to her uncle's house when she stops at a brand new train station where they are selling tea eggs. She gets instantly mesmerized by the delicacy and gets off the train to buy one but
leaves her bag by mistake and when she came back it was stolen. The story shows symbolism because the egg and the brand new train station represents a dream and what the narrators desires are when she come back to reality on the old train and her dreamland dissolves and accepts the fact that her bag was stolen and realizes how foolish she was being. Therefore, showing hints of Symbolism, of the characteristics of Flash Fiction.
Theme a characteristic of Flash Fiction was throughout the story in numerous ways. One example on how a theme was shown in the story “The Tea Egg” was, pay attention in life on what you really need rather than what you want. How this is shown in the reading was that the narrator was trying to get to her destination but saw a delicacy and easily got of track rather than staying on the train and continuing of her destination. Her foolish actions later resulted in her bag being stolen.
The brevity of a Flash Fiction story matters a lot because the whole point of Flash Fiction is to be short like a flash of of lightning. Short and having to look at it over and over again to really understand it. This is clearly
Flash Fiction, were simply very short stories. According to “Flash Fiction Forward” written by James Thomas and Robert Shepard where they wrote about a genre of writing that has been very popular now and what Flash Fiction actually is. “The Tea Egg” written by Xinhe Shen is a Flash Fiction story that includes what the main characteristics of Flash Fiction is. Flash Fiction is a genre of writing that includes symbolism, a important theme, and brevity.
In “The Tea Egg” written by Xinhe Shen is a story about a girl riding on a train to her uncle's house when she stops at a brand new train station where they are selling tea eggs. She gets instantly mesmerized by the delicacy and gets off the train to buy one but
leaves her bag by mistake and when she came back it was stolen. The story shows symbolism because the egg and the brand new train station represents a dream and what the narrators desires are when she come back to reality on the old train and her dreamland dissolves and accepts the fact that her bag was stolen and realizes how foolish she was being. Therefore, showing hints of Symbolism, of the characteristics of Flash Fiction.
Theme a characteristic of Flash Fiction was throughout the story in numerous ways. One example on how a theme was shown in the story “The Tea Egg” was, pay attention in life on what you really need rather than what you want. How this is shown in the reading was that the narrator was trying to get to her destination but saw a delicacy and easily got of track rather than staying on the train and continuing of her destination. Her foolish actions later resulted in her bag being stolen.
The brevity of a Flash Fiction story matters a lot because the whole point of Flash Fiction is to be short like a flash of of lightning. Short and having to look at it over and over again to really understand it. This is clearly