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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The Time Sweepers is a short story written by Canadian author Ursula-Wills Jones. The story focuses on a group of invisible people called “time sweepers”. These “time sweepers” are described as blue people wearing overalls if they are men and “old fashioned tweed jackets” if they are women. “Time Sweepers” sweep up wasted time. If Time Sweepers did not exist‚ we would be stuck in a world of infinite time. The Time Sweepers do not like taking holidays as it loses time. The story seems to focus around
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A Family Supper by Kazuo Ishiguro l Plot “A Family Supper” tells the story of a Japanese family after World War II. The son‚ having lived in California for several years‚ returns to Tokyo to see his father and sister Kikuko. The son and the father talk about the death of his mother due to poisonous and the failure of the father’s jointly owned firm. The father tells his son about how honorable he thought his business partner‚ Watanabe‚ was even though he had committed suicide. The daughter
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“The Gift of the Magi” by O.Henry is a short story about James and Della Dillingham Young‚ and the events that occur one Christmas eve. The story begins with Della Dillingham Young frantically gathering her money to purchase a gift for her husband Jim Dillingham. Della loves her husband Jim so much‚ that she sacrifices her beloved hair in order to purchase a wrist band for Jims watch. Unbeknownst to her‚ Jim sacrificed his watch to purchase a set of combs that she always desired. Love‚ sacrifice
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SHORT STORY PAPER “Compare/contrast Faulkner’s ‘Dry September’ with ‘A rose for Emily’ in terms of writing style and character presentation.” What is going to be analyzed in this paper are the two short stories by W. Faulkner ‘A Rose for Emily’ and ‘Dry September’. Basically‚ what is to be performed is a comparison/contrast analysis in terms of the writing style and character presentation. More specifically‚ I will provide
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the game itself and how effective or non-effective it was. Listed below are those evaluations. The first game my group played was called Long Story Short. It was a game that consisted of five players‚ each with white boards and dry erase markers. The object of the game was to finish the story that the selected judge had read to us. We had to complete the story using either a text message‚ tweet‚ comic strip‚ or a headline. Based upon whatever number the judge rolled on the dice. This game gives off
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“Blackberries in June‚” that title to me means easy picking‚ that Jamie and Matt managed to pick all the sweet blackberries from the bush(that’s my opinion of the title). In this short story everyone thinks that Jamie and Matt have it easy and everything has been handed to them. The reason for this is because their going on the course of being successful in life early instead of later in life. Honestly‚ though they worked hard for everything they have. Both working at minimum wage jobs. Jamie as
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The Face of Evil Doesn’t Always Look the Part The short story “Where are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ and its adaptation Smooth Talk by Joyce Chopra both portray Arnold Friend as evil. Although he appears very differently in both texts‚ his intentions are the same and eventually gets Connie out of that house. In the movie‚ Joyce Chopra is trying to tell the audience who has read the story that evil comes in all different shapes and sizes through her casting of Treat
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Born in St. Paul‚ Minnesota‚ on September 24‚ 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald was the son of Edward Fitzgerald‚ who worked for Proctor and Gamble and brought his family to Buffalo and Syracuse‚ New York‚ for most of his son’s first decade. Edward Fitzgerald’s great-great-grandfather was the brother of the grandfather of Francis Scott Key‚ who wrote the poem “The Star-Spangled Banner.” This fact was of great significance to Mrs. Fitzgerald‚ Mollie McQuillan‚ and later to Scott. Mollie
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she was a “lady.” The grandmother also has an interesting use of the word “good.” She calls Red Sammy a “good man” for letting some men buy gasoline on credit‚ suggesting that she associates “good men” with gullibility and blind faith. Later in the story‚ she causes the family to make a wrong turn because she misremember the location of a plantation house she wanted to visit. When she realizes her mistake‚ she jerks her knee‚ ultimately causing the car to crash. She does not tell anyone about her mistake
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