old heart‚ he says‚ but to a potassium shortage. Sitting on one pillow‚ leaning on three‚ he offers last-minute advice and makes a request. "I would like you to write a simple story just once more‚" he says‚ "the kind de Maupassant wrote‚ or Chekhov‚ the kind you used to write. Just recognizable people and then write down what happened to them next." I say‚ "Yes‚ why not? That’s possible." I want to please him‚ though I don’t remember writing that way. I would like to try to tell such a
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Analysis on The Bet by Anton Chekhov This short story portrays a situation in which the banker and lawyer wages a bet based on the idea of the death penalty and life imprisonment. The banker puts on the line two million dollars compared to the lawyer’s life worth of fifteen years. For the next fifteen years the lawyer was placed in the banker’s backyard without the knowledge of the outside world. It was clear that any attempt on the lawyer’s part to break the conditions will result in the lawyer’s
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In the short story “A rose for Emily” by William Faulkner‚ it starts off with the unknown narrator explaining Miss Emily’s funeral and why the townspeople actually attended. From this the reader learns what type of character Miss Emily is. She does not like change and cannot handle denial. Her family’s name and the way she was bought up by her father is the explanation for this. Throughout the story the reader realizes how respected her family was and what lengths Miss Emily is willing to go to keep
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Technology is controlling and changing our everyday lives. I strongly believe Gary Shteyngart in his article “Only Connect”; not only is the I-phone changing everybody lives‚ but any other smart phone that exists in today’s society. Shteyngart says “With each passing year‚ scientists estimate that I lose between 6 and 8 percent of my humanity‚ so that by the close of this decade you will be able to quantify my personality.” He is correct because every year technology changes and advance. Each year
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It’s simple; everyone wants to find love‚ their soul mate. The short story‚ “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Anton Chekhov‚ describes the trials and tribulations people put themselves through to find true love. The two main characters‚ Gurov and Anna‚ are trapped in loveless marriages‚ secretly searching for something more. Anna lives during a time in Russia where women are submissive to men‚ “soul mates” were chosen by perspective parents‚ and divorce was not an option. Her lover‚ Gurov‚ describes
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Types of fiction 1. Flash fiction: Flash fiction has roots going back to Aesop’s Fables‚ and practitioners have included Bolesław Prus‚ Anton Chekhov‚ O. Henry‚ Franz Kafka‚ H.P.Lovecraft‚ Ray Bradbury and Lydia Davis. New life has been brought to flash fiction by the Internet‚ with its demand for short‚ concise works. A ready market for flash-fiction works is ezines; however‚ flash fiction is also published by many print magazines. Markets specializing in flash fiction include SmokeLong Quarterly
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Many plays‚ whether dramatic or comedic‚ have ties into the social issues and setting of the time they were written. Writers such as Anton Chekhov‚ Tennessee Williams‚ and even Mark Twain have used the society of their time to produce satirical and even tragic works of literature. One of the best examples of a play that gathers meaning from societal values is Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. In 1893 Oscar Wilde began writing his fourth of five works (Tornaritis‚ Nicholas. Shelby‚ C. ed. "An Ideal
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With My Father”‚ is a story of a very intelligent‚ yet sick aging father and his daughter who is a brilliant writer. The narrator goes to visit her father and while she is there‚ he makes a request that she write a simple story like de Maupassant or Chekhov would write‚ the way she used to write. “Just recognizable people and then write down what happened to them next” (31). The narrator agrees‚ and tells a short story no longer than a paragraph about a mother and her son who live in Manhattan and are
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in “finding herself” but also has to face disagreements in the family. Books and window in Frank’s study is symbolic for the barrier between Rita’s current world and the world of Academia in which she is “finding herself”. When Denny burnt all the Chekhov books‚ it symbolises Rita’s problems in the family and Denny’s disagreement of Rita seeking “life” in education. During the play‚ Rita replied Frank whilst “standing up”‚ when Frank curiously asked‚ “I mean about your husband”. This acts as a metaphor
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Introduction “Why does one write? Because sometimes one feels like saying something. Because some question disturb us. At times these may be questioned addressed to ourselves. Or to the community around us. Or to our time. Or the whole of mankind. At time to nature‚ and to God.” This seemingly general statement on the primal springs of literature M.T. Vasudevan Nair make in Kathakinte Kala (story teller’s art) can very well apply to M.T’s own writing that spans four fertile decades. When M.T started
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