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The girl lives in poverty, as her room “finally has a door that shuts (“Where Dreams Come From,” stanza 1, line 4,” and she lives in a “mortgaged house (“Where Dreams Come From,” stanza 5, line 3).” She detests that house and yearns to break the poverty cycle. One of the main reasons she has large aspirations that involve a good education is to break out of the poverty cycle and transform that old, rusty house into a mansion. Mitty’s wealth level is greater than the girl’s, however, he drives a Buick, a car that is known for being cheap and stogy, and fantasizes about being successful, center of attention and even wealthy. Such as, he had a “Doctor Fantasy,” where he was a well-renowned Physician that wrote a “brilliant novel on Streptothricosis (“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” page 1, paragraph 6).” He also despises the fact that he is not as successful or wealthy as his daydreams, which continue to fuel his imagination. Their emotions for living in poverty or lower-middle class are the feelings that many people in this wealth sector harbor. This causes them to push the limits and succeed to undertake their

The speaker starts the proposal off with an authoritative tone as he explains the issue at hand to establish himself as an expert. A “melancholy object to those who walk through this great town…” refers to London as a great town any though these conditions are leaving the city in decadence. He right away speaks of the subject as if he was an expert. The purpose of this tone is to establish that he is an expert on the subject. By saying this, he shows bias towards England and against the poor. This is ironic because it shows he’s worried about the appearance, caring more about protecting the rich people from seeing the sad beggars than the beggars themselves. The speaker then narrows down the category of beggars by mentioning the streets are “crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children… importuning every passenger for an alms”. His word choice, “female sex” and “followed by three, four, or six children” begins to lead into the main issue of the article, children of beggars. He creates himself as an expert on the topic in paragraph one by using a number of logical fallacies. He turns the conservation against the Irish children by stereotyping the group, claiming that as a whole, they “…grow up either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country to fight for the Pretender in Spain” This presents a slippery slope fallacy; if a child is born to destitute parents, then are going to grow up are become thieves or defectors. This again reveals additional bias against this group, setting up the poor as a scapegoat. The speaker is portrayed to be a nationalist when he states, “dear native country”. This plays to his trustworthiness, establishing his credibility as

In both these stories, the authors portray two very different yet alike women who have trouble accepting their fate and are trying to reject the life of women of their class. Mathilde Loisel and Louise Mallard are very alike because they dream of something they do not have, then their dreams come true, but destiny plays a fatal role in both stories, and ladies lose everything they had. In both stories, ladies have caring husbands, whom they do not appreciate .Unfortunately, the endings of

The women of the story are not treated with the respect, which reflects their social standings. The first image of the women that the reader gets is a typical housewife. They are imaged as “wearing faded house dresses and

Introduction: John’s domination over the Narrator is evident from the beginning of the short story. The Narrator remains unknown and takes the identity of John’s wife not an individual human being. This identity, further explored, becomes her personality because she obeys John’s every command.

The main character Jeanette walls and her older sister Lori walls represent the decision making process the best between the other characters in the memoir. Both of them recognized that living in poverty is not what they wanted. They would have sleepless nights and go days without eating food. As time went on they identified alternatives to try and end their poverty. Their type of poverty was situational because it happened through a situation involving their parents not keeping a steady job. After identifying alternatives they evaluated the alternatives and realized that their father would never stop drinking and change his ways on finding a good job. They later selected and implemented an alternative making a big decision to save up money behind their parents back and to leave their parents to move to new york, and start a new and successful life after leaving. In New York City, Jeannette was able to quickly s as a reporter, which has always been her life time goal. She and Lori began eating very well and enjoyed the fact that they finally had a roof over their head. They eventually ask their siblings Brian and Maureen to move in with them.When they come to live with their sisters they enjoy having each others company and were

Showing ideas about Eliza’s problems how she begins with limited freedom then shows her strong will and changes into a Cinderella like character. When meeting the people who will be in their future who they soon meet while still living in the society standards of poverty.

Money plays a huge part in this story. Hester, the mother, is obsessed with having more and more money. She lives the life of a woman with money, never allowing anyone to see past the family's small income, "The mother had a small income, and the father had a

Short stories have fully developed themes but appear significantly shorter and less elaborate than novels. A similar theme found in short stories “Winter Dreams” written by Scott F. Fitzgerald and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner included the social and environmental influences that encouraged and controlled the character’s life and decisions. In “Winter Dreams”, the main protagonist-- Dexter-- fell into a fixation over a young, whimsical blueblood, Judy Jones. His obsession led him to believe that Judy Jones reciprocated his feelings for her, leaving him bare and mortal-- despite prior beliefs. Following her father’s death, Miss Emily fell into a dark obscurity due to the pressure and compulsion of having to carry on the honorable family name. While using a unique point of view (first person peripheral), “A Rose for Emily” followed a mysterious and desirable woman named Miss Emily as her hometown tried to understand her peculiar ways and began to find her disgraceful. By comparing and contrasting these two literary pieces, a similar organization-- including the writers’ purpose and themes-- should become clear. By using literary devices-- such as point of view, dramatic irony, detail, and figurative language-- Scott F. Fitzgerald and William Faulkner conducted two short stories similar in aim and reasoning, probable for contrasting and comparing elements within the parallel writings.

Written in third person limited omniscient, and filtered predominantly through Catherine. The unknown narrator slips effortlessly into free indirect disclosure, which adopts the tone and inflection of an individual characters voice. This technique allows the narrator to intrude into the narrative to offer advice, or to foreshadow the characters. However, the narrator frequently breaks from convention and addresses’ the reader directly.

However, when their mother came through the door and told them of a hungry family, the 4 women did not hesitate in giving away their luscious breakfast to those in need. The children delivered the food to the family and “a poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm”(24). The sisters realize what a harsh environment they live in, and because the setting is so pessimistic, they try to share the little wealth they have so that everyone may live long full lives. The setting in which they live, houses many people who have even less wealth than their own family. However, because of this dreadful place, they try and make sure that their community, or their family, is taken care of, even at the expense of their luxuries.

She uses simple words and phrases that are most commonly used in everyday language. The structure is more-or-less the recovery of memories in the order that they happened. Willa Cather separates them into parts of Jim’s life. I love the way it is organized for it seems more realistic and in that way easier to connect with Jim’s life, experiences, feelings, to live with him. One of the greatest moments, where I felt entirely among the characters, was 186-188. At that moment when Jim said goodbye to Lena and she to him, every moment of his childhood, whether that be Antonia’s or Lena’s, I experienced what they did. I grew to love them, probably too much. The next part, Cuzak’s Boys, made me tearfully sad. During this part, the reader gets to

Not only is money a symbol in the short story, but so is the knowledge that books provide the

There are an estimated 1 million crack users in Brazil, the largest number in the world. Cracolândia is symbolic of the country's drug epidemic (New Vice 1) and is time to put an end to this place. Cracolandia is a trap for this people who don’t have where to go, so they end up trying to find relief and confortable of life using the drug. However is very easy for us to look from outside only. People tend to close their eyes and think that Cracolandia don’t exist, but it does and it needs a solution. The biggest problem is that when you are inside is very hard to get out alone, and help there is something very rare.

Short stories can share themes, motifs, symbols, consequences, and plot lines, even if there is never any intention to share a common element between the stories. The stories can be written close together or in different decades and still be linked to the one another. They can also be worlds apart with different meanings in the end, but that does not stop them from having similar ideas expressed within them. The following three stories, “Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by DH Lawrence, and “The Lady in the Looking Glass” by Virginia Woolf, are three totally different stories that share common threads that make them the stories that they are.