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    Analyze Short Stories

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    Short Story Analysis: ‘Cat in the Rain’ Summary It is about an American couple that spends their holidays in an Italian hotel. It is a rainy day and the American woman sees a cat in the rain‚ which she wants to protect from the raindrops. When she goes out of the hotel‚ which is kept by an old Italian who really seems to do everything to please that woman‚ and wants to get the cat‚ it is gone. After returning to the hotel room‚ she starts a conversation with her husband George‚ who is reading

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    A&P Short Story

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    Thesis statement + enumeration of points of similarity or difference (my be 1 or 1 sentences):Araby and A&P are both short stories‚ written by famous authors. Although they were written in different times‚ as well as in different countries‚ they have many similarities. OUTLINE Title:Comparison of Araby and A&P Paragraph 1 (Introduction) Topic Sentence:Although they were written in different times‚ as well as in different countries‚ they have many similarities. Subtopic sentence:These similarities

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    Symbolic Short Stories

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    PAPER 2 Symbolic Short Stories James Naylor Comp111 October 13‚ 2008 Symbolism is when repeated images gather significant meaning throughout a story and can be directly related to the overall premise. There are a few symbols in James Joyce’s “Araby” and “Eveline” that can be compared in terms of similar significance. Both stories give you symbols that point towards dreariness‚ gloominess and just overall sadness in the story. If looked at closely‚ the characters

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    Marigold: A Short Story

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    wall‚ as if she believes that she will escape‚ as if she still has hope. Her kicks become more aggressive and her hair has flown from her tightly knotted ponytail and the flaming red ends are whipping and burning her back. Finally she gives up‚ slides down the wall and her tears extinguish her burning hair‚ a sign of weakness she does not usually show. I have grown to admire her strength and confidence even when her outlandish insults yelled at guards mean we get given no food‚ it is after all these

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    Cohesion in Short Story

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    takes short story as the object of the research. The short story is a means of conveying ideas‚ thought and feeling of written from the writer to the reader. It is one of kind writing which starts from a particular point of problem‚ developed through a particular strategy of processing and discussing ideas as well. Surely‚ the short story is not constructed by separated elements one another‚ but supported by the cohesive devices which build up the unity and the cohesive of the short story.

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    Short Story and Mick

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    Serrusalmus I have road a short story called Serrusalmus written by Lesley Glaister. Lesley Glaister was born in Northampton shire‚ The United Kingdom at October 04‚ 1956. Lesley Glaister is a fiction writer and her first novel got published in 1990. The short story is about the protagonist Marjorie who is a woman. I will say she is in her forties and lives by herself in a apartment on the nineteenth floor. When Marjorie was a little girl she liked ants she felt that the ants inspired her. As

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    Elements of Short Story

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    Elements of Short Stories Plot (what happens)     conflict (the basic opposition or tension that sets the plot of a short story in motion; it engages the                 reader‚ builds suspense or mystery‚ and arouses expectation for events to follow.)     open-ended at both ends     exposition (background information‚ setting the scene‚ establishes situation‚ dates the action)     rising action (complication) (develops and intensifies the conflict)     climax (crisis) (the moment at which

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    Hawthorne short stories

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne explores a similar theme‚ People who are unable to accept the evils and joys of life will live and die in despair‚ in his short stories‚ The Minister’s Black veil‚ Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment‚ and Young Goodmen Brown. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story‚ The Ministers Black Veil‚ The minister was unable to accept his evils and joys of his life. The minister felt he should wear a veil to hide his guilt‚ but his guilt was a secret. The veil played a greater purpose to the

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    Everyday Use A family is briefly‚ and awkwardly‚ reunited when Dee visits home after being sent away to school. She is happy to see Mama and her sister Maggie‚ but instead of a heart-felt family reunion it feels more like a misguided show-and-tell of African heritage. Dee has brought her Muslim boyfriend with her‚ and soon inform her mother that her name has been changed to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo‚ in protest of her oppressors. Mama informs her that “Dee” is a family name that traces back several

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    Stimulus: A Short Story

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    Stimulus: Discoveries and discovering can offer new understandings and renewed perceptions of ourselves and others. Redemption "And if you fail to uphold your end of the deal‚ the consequences for you will be apocalyptic‚" Niklaus slammed the phone down onto the table after he had finished threatening whoever was on the other side of the line. "You’re not a people person are you‚ Niklaus?" Elijah‚ Niklaus’ brother sarcastically asked as he made his way through the door of the home they shared

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