Claire Li English 9A Period 4 13 September 2016 Birthday Party: Self Image versus Kindness Katherine Brush’s short story‚ “Birthday Party”‚ speaks about a middle-aged couple who struggle with their relationship. This story takes place in a little cafe‚ nestled in the corner of a building. At first‚ everything is fine‚ but later‚ the married couple’s attitudes start to change for the worse. The author uses their attitudes to demonstrate the idea of self-image versus kindness and relationships. In
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"The A&P" In the short story‚ " The A&P‚" by John Updike‚ the author seeks to make his point using an unlikely setting and scenario. Using a supermarket as a metaphor for a society‚ Updike illustrates how breaking the norms of society evokes fear and brings about intolerance in people. When a society is accustomed to only one way of doing things it will not be accept anything different. Members of a society fear change‚ and only behavior that deviates from the status quo. They resist allowing new
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While I was reading the short story‚ I thought the minister wore the black veil that covered his face except from his mouth and his chin to hide from his parishioners as he did something to be embarrassed of. But after I finished reading I got various hints indicating that he wore the black veil to hide from his sin and secret. However‚ when Mr. Hopper’s wife asked him to take the veil away‚ he told her that he wore the veil as a symbol for his commitment to his religion. When parishioners saw
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Journal 4 - The Flowers Alice Walkers‚ “The Flowers”‚ is a short story about a young girl Myop. One day‚ Myop is happy and carefree as she skips around her family’s cabin playing with the animals. On this day she decides to explore the woods as she had done many times with her mother in late autumn while gathering nuts. Myop then leaves the safety and peacefulness of her family’s cabin to search for new and wonderful flowers. The flowers represent innocence‚ life‚ and the beauty of life. This
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The short story “Knife”‚ is about Curtis’ previous life. In the beginning‚ the main character has a flashback during school. It was his eleventh birthday and his father gave a pocket knife to Curtis as a birthday gift. His pocket knife displays the Curtis’ bonds and character’s temper throughout the whole story. His relationship with others are positive and may be negative sometimes. For example‚ his relationship with the seal that he found in the lake. His parents can represent the pessimistic side
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To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker begins with old neighbor Mr. Sweet on his deathbed and his neighboring family gathering around him for his coming death with sad faces except the childrens father trying to put cheerful mood by saying‚ To hell with dying‚ man. He revives many times because during the times of his deaths‚ the family comes to his house most of the times and the youngest child kisses him all over until he laughs so loud. He has many good memories with the family playing guitar and
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1. Short-term memory is the part of the memory system where information is stored for a short period of time. It is important for short term memory to exercise your brain on a daily basis. A personal experience where I had a lapse of short-term memory was when I was studying for a biology exam in the library on the 2nd floor. Then‚ another day when I went to the library‚ but sat in a different spot. I could not remember what I had remembered in the other spot. This is an example of encoding specificity
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Have you ever had missed somebody in your life that you wish you could see him just for a second to make his last wish possible? The story‚ Later‚ by Michael Foster is a short story with a common subject that may happen to every body during their life time. The subject‚ characters and theme are tangible. It shows crumbling the life in a single moment. The moment that you didn’t respect. But when you go back in a time and review your memories‚ you will realize it was worthwhile. It is to be regreted
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commit vicious actions against others out of tradition. For instance‚ some Hindu communities used to kill‚ or offer as a sacrifice‚ a virgin to satisfy Goddess Kali from their beliefs that this sacrifice would bring luck and prosperity for them. In her short story "The Lottery‚” Shirley Jackson is trying to point out what people do in the name of tradition. Jackson describes a small town where the people have been taught in order for their crop to be abundant for the year an individual has to be sacrificed
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In the short stories of "The Life You Save is Your Own" and "The Magic Barrel"‚ both of the protagonists share similar and differing characteristics. Both of the protagonists are not reliable narrators‚ and lie to themselves and others. Mr. Shiftlet‚ the protagonist of "The Life Save is Your Own"‚ is a manipulative character‚ When Shilftlet first encountered Lucynell and his mother his only objective was the car. O’Connor‚ that author‚ uses missing body parts in her writing to depict that the character
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