Ah, Woe Is Me

The short story consists of both short sentences and long sentences. The sentences are short when something dramatic happens and the short sentences make it more dramatic and interesting to read

Those three words reflect her self-image as much as how she sees Bert and Eddie in that moment. Walking with a pronounced limp, Sarah lives with the idea of "crippled" and "twisted" every day, but she also sees herself as a drunk and as, basically, a prostitute, telling Eddie at one point that she owes her livelihood to the last "rich man" she dated. She also sees herself as a writer who

In conclusion, the opening and closing sentences of the short story “The South” hold a fairly large significance on the reader’s understanding and experience of the events within the stories. The opening provides a cultural background and character development that adds to a prospective reader’s understanding of the story while the closing give a sense of ambiguity to the story and causes the reader to analyze the story more

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Studies in Short Fiction 21.4 (Fall 1984). Rpt. In Short Story Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec

In just a matter of months, Sarah has hastily experienced and heard things that she hadn’t thought she would. As she moved into her cousin’s home, she begins to see how the

. The exposition in any story or poem is the beginning, probably the first paragraph that lays

a. Subthesis Throughout the short story, the author incorporates choice words into certain components of the story in order to create a calm and relaxed tone.

To begin with, the most striking feature of this work is that it is a story

Mistakes something that we all do. People are not perfect therefore we will all make mistakes many times in our life. But there are two types of people in the world's ones that will live up to their mistakes and accept that they did it so they can move on. And there are those that will never live up to the mistakes they made and they will never be able to move on. The only way to truly learn from a mistake is to accept that you made one. There have been many times in my life that I have messed up and made mistakes. Some very terrible some not so bad. But none of them never were as bad as this one but, what i learned from the mistake made it all worthwhile.

It is this dignity that many African people's all but lost in the colonial period...The writer's duty is to help them regain it by showing them in human terms what happened to them, what they lost." (Achebe/Killam Eds. Pg. 159.)

narration. At first, I had no idea where this story was going to take the reader. The

A. This story can be related to the readers life, often in life difficult task or situations arise this story shows that with perseverance one can overcome any obstacle set before

The short story opens up in medias res. The reader is thrown into the story without any knowledge of what is happening or what has previously happened.

The short story is a concise form of narrative prose that is usually simpler and more direct compared to longer works of fiction such as novels. Therefore, because of their short length, short stories rely on many forms of literary devices to convey the idea of a uniform theme seen throughout the script. This theme is illustrated by using characteristics that are developed throughout the story such as, plot, setting and characters. The three main components are developed throughout the story in order to guide the reader to the underlying theme, which is necessary as a short story lacking a theme also lacks meaning or purpose.