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    Great Love Stories

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    Love stories evoke some of the most powerful emotions from readers.  Love is an emotion that cannot be explained in a deterministic equation.  Great love stories  are works that make the reader experience something that resonates with what people desire in life.  Love stories remind the readers that love is something so powerful that it is worth sacrificing for.  Great love stories describe what it feels like to be alone‚ what it feels like to meet the person who can change your life.  At the

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    Short Story Essay

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    analysing three short stories and will be explaining through my writing how the stories interest and satisfy the readers. I will express the aims of the stories through the eyes of my writing and evaluate the short stories in detail. The stories that I will be analysing are all set in different places. The first short story I will be focusing on is “The Sniper”. This is a story written by Liam O’Flaherty‚ which is set in a city called Dublin situated in Ireland. The genre for this story is Civil war. The

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    In “the story of an hour” and “The Necklace” both writers use conflict to explain the author’s purpose of informing. In “the story of an hour” ‚kate chopin uses conflict to inform readers about what it was like for the woman married to that man. In this story the woman mrs.mallard shares her conflict. “She said it over and over under her breathe: “free‚ free‚ free!”. (1.) In this part of the story it is a perfect explanation of how this character was very dynamic because of her changing from sad

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    quotes from The Danger of a Single Story that made me rethink how I will consider a story in the future: - “So that is how to create a single story‚ show a people as one thing‚ as only one thing‚ over and over again‚ and that is what they become. “ - “The single story creates stereotypes‚ and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue‚ but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” - “The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity

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    Essay on Short Stories

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    Alina Rozental Mrs. Muzaurieta English 9‚ pd 1A 12/19/2012 9th Short Stories‚ Formal Essay Final “Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts” (Daymond John). This represents the great work many underprivileged people must go through to earn simple things that would be easy to acquire for people of a wealthy society. People trapped in a lower class have a difficult time attaining happiness. A poor maid’s daughter struggles for a simple friendship and to gain respect from her

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    The story titled The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson is an interesting story with an unpredictable ending. The story tells us about a tradition in a small town which is held every year. The tradition is called ‘the lottery’ where the ‘winner’ will be stoned to death. Actually it is a horrible tradition‚ but in the story it is considered usual‚ and even acceptable in the society. There are several irony that we can see in the story according to that ‘scapegoat’ tradition. One of the irony is

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    In Kate Chopin’s short story "The Story of an Hour‚" there is much irony. The first irony detected is in the way that Louise reacts to the news of the death of her husband‚ Brently Mallard. Before Louise’s reaction is revealed‚ Chopin alludes to how the widow feels by describing the world according to her perception of it after the "horrible" news. Louise is said to "not hear the story as many women have heard the same." Rather‚ she accepts it and goes to her room to be alone. Now the reader

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    Zoo Story Analysis

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    Albee used many literary devices in The Zoo Story. The first device is the anti-hero. An anti- hero is the main protagonist but lacks qualities of a hero. Jerry is an anti- hero and accepts his position as social outcasts. Along with the anti-hero‚ Albee uses satire. Satire adds humor to comment on human nature and social constructs‚ Albee uses these devices in The Zoo Story to comment on the way different social classes choose to view and ignore each other in American society‚ especially the really

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    Symbolism and Irony in “The Story of an Hour” “ The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard‚ who learns that her just died in an accident. As I continued to read the story I learned that Mrs. Mallard‚ was not your ordinary grieving widow‚ she is actually somewhat happy of the news of her husband’s death. Chopin uses symbolism and irony to show readers the world through Mrs. Mallard’s eyes. Symbolism was a strong term in the story‚ mainly because Chopin uses symbols

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    general; and within a woman herself. Kate Chopin‘s short story‚ “The Story of an Hour”‚ focus on a woman’s dilemma near the turn of the 19th century. Contradicting the “normal” or sad assumption of death‚ “The Story of an Hour” illustrates the significance of death representing freedom. The Story narrates about an hour of Louise Mallard’s life‚ as she tries to understand‚ and deal with her feelings of her husbands death. In "The Story of an Hour"‚ Chopin suggests that in certain situations‚ the

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