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    " I’m here to kill you!" "Jae get inside the room and  lock the door" Jaejoong heard Yunho shouting from the other line but‚ Karam pushes Jaejoong hard against the wall and his back hits it with a slight thud.Karam grabbed the phone on his hand and threw it in the floor. Karam point the gun at the base of Jaejoongs skull and it made Jaejoong whimper. He pushed the barrel a little harder and looked at Jaejoong quizzically. The two of them stood silent‚ staring at each other‚ without moving

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    A Very Short Story

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    “A very short story” (By Esther Monshouwer) “A very short story” is written by Ernest Hemmingway‚ and published in 1925 In our time. It’s about a love affair between an American soldier and an Italian nurse‚ named Luz‚ during a war (probably world war one). They met and fell in love while he was wounded and in the hospital. They wanted to get married right away‚ but they didn’t have the right paperwork or time. They decided that he would go to New York after the war (armistice) and get a job

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    Title: Story Of An Hour Author: Kate Chopin I. On The Elements / Literary Concepts The short story Story Of An Hour is all about the series of emotions that the protagonist‚ Mrs. Mallard showed to the readers. With the kind of plot of this short story‚ it actually refers to the moments that Mrs. Mallard knew that all this time‚ her husband was alive. For the symbol‚ I like the title of this short story because it actually symbolizes the "time" where Mrs. Mallard died with "joy." And with that

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    Short Story Quiz--due 4.11.14 Short Story Quiz Read "A&P‚" "The Lesson‚" "The Necklace‚" and "The Lady with the Pet Dog" and write a paragraph in response to each question. Explain your points and back them up with detail from the stories. Upload as a Word or Open Office document. Due 4.21.12 1. In Updike’s story‚ what does Lengel stand for?   In "A&P" by Updike‚ Lengel is the manager of the A&P store where the story takes place. He is also Sammy’s boss and a Sunday class teacher. In the short

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    Australia Short Stories

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    Kangaroo by Eve Sallis are three short stories that all convey a strong sense of Australian identity which contrasts to stereotypical gender roles. At the heart of each of these short stories is a brave independent woman protecting their families. Landscape is represented differently in each short story but it is used to compliment the strong women in A Gentleman’s Agreement‚ The Drover’s Wife and The Kangaroo. Elizabeth Jolley’s A Gentleman’s Agreement‚ tells the story of a working class single mother

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    The Lottery Short Story

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    In 1948 there was a short story published in The New Yorker Magazine By Shirly Jackson. called The Lottery. The Lottery is a fiction story. On June 27‚ it was a clear sunny morning. It is 10am and the village. They gathered for the lottery. There was only 300 people in the town gathering. The lottery takes place at town square by the bank and the post office. The village is big into farming. At 10 o’clock the lottery starts. The head of the household draws by name in alphabetical order. All of the

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    Definition of the short story   1st definition: A short story is a “short piece of fiction aiming at unity of characterization‚ theme and effect. 2nd definition: The authors of the modern English short story “no longer attempt to make daily life more entertaining by inventing exotic plots. Instead‚ modern short story writers have tended to base their narratives on their own experience; here the focus is much more on the less spectacular aspects of life‚ on the significance underlying what is

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    Short Story Carmilla

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    Assignment: Sexuality in Carmilla Le Fanu’s story of Carmilla has been adapted as a web series‚ in which the setting is modern day society at a college campus. Laura remains the narrator of the thirty-six-episode season‚ where she records all events from her dorm room as part of her journalism class. The web series stays loyal to having Carmilla remain the female vampire in the story‚ while also implying other female romantic relationships. In the short story Le Fanu’s choice of a female vampire alters

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    It was an early spring day‚ and there she was‚ Mrs. Mallard‚ sitting in her well-lit at home office while the kids were at school‚ staring emotionlessly at her laptop screen. Mrs. Louise Mallard heard knocking on her office door‚ rather quickly standing up from her chair‚ she walked peacefully to the door and pulled it open. Her sister Josephine was standing outside‚ a different look of panic flashed in her eye. Josephine told her sister to take a seat‚ because she had something very important to

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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

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