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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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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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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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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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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] Time to Grow Up In the short story “A&P‚” John Updike writes of a nineteen year old boy‚ Sammy‚ who is overcome by his fantasies when three girls walk into the A&P grocery store. They are in nothing but bathing suits. He soon decides‚ after the events that occur‚ because of these three girls‚ to quit working in the third slot of the grocery store. The three girls to Sammy are damsels in distress‚ because of Lengel‚ the manager. Out of the three girls‚ one catches his eye‚ the one he
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Terrified This short story is called Terrified‚ it is written by C.B. Gilford. This title name gives readers a large attention‚ and this title name is very suitable for this short story‚ because if you were one of the characters in the story you would be a lot more than terrified. This story has four characters‚ Paul Santin‚ Vince‚ Arlene‚ which are both teenagers‚ about 16-18 years old‚ and the policeman. The main character is Paul Santin‚ he is the main point of this story. This story is about a person
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Courageous and full of determination‚ Jake Garson in one of the short stories I’m Still Here‚ written by Veronica Ross‚ shows the set of characteristics that many Canadians regard as expressing their unique place and role in the world. He tried to fight and stand up for his own rights against the government through his act of bravery. By doing this‚ he had influenced many people in his hometown that faced the same situation as Jake; however‚ they did not show the same kind of courage that Jake showed
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