Comparing Short Stories

As a child daydreaming and imagining was essential to survive the extensive abominable days of summer, or the weekends. Likewise, in the texts “Red Cranes” by Jacey Choy and “The Firefly Hunt” by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki two children who still express their imagination and creativity, have to realize the harsh realities that everyone must incorporate. In the texts “Red Cranes” and “The Firefly Hunt” they express the ambition and creativity of a child’s mind. However, the development of the two characters dealing with the realities in their adolescent years, varies tremendously between the two stories.

Reading the story as told by a young child gives the audience a deeper understanding about what the next

Sadly, to this day, women are still treated like objects in various parts of the world. Whether forced into marriage or used for inhumane acts, it is a shame that changes towards the treatment of women are only starting to take place now. An insightful look into the worlds of poorly treated women is seen in the short stories “Another Evening at The Club”, and “The Leaving”. Alifa Rifaat, the author of “Another Evening.” depicts the life of an eastern teenager that was forced into marriage and is controlled by the actions of her husband. While the main character, Samia, seems to act as an evil accomplice of her husband, her actions are driven by the need to serve a purposeful life for the sake of survival, and their image together. Similarly,

During the 1800’s it was very rare for women to marry for love. Most marriages were arranged for financial gain. When in a marriage during this time period, the husbands were given most of the control over the household, the children and their wives. According to the article “Histories: Women in the 1800’s,” It stated that all of a women’s possession’s belonged to her husband, this included earnings (if she worked) and her property. It wasn’t uncommon for women to be unhappy within their marriages because with a lack of voice in a marriage can lead anyone to a mental breakdown. In Kate Chopin’s “The story of an hour” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” both women felt trapped in their marriages. They both strived for freedom and independence.

going to leave her but Dahl does not make it clear what the bad news

As a child left for school one morning, his parents thought that he had been acting very odd and different. Even with their suspicion, they said goodbye and let their son go to school.

The world we live in could never be described as black and white. We as individuals, all have our unique thoughts, opinions, and realities. Many of us can go through the same exact experience, but yet have different impacts and interpretations of that experience. Authors express these differences and viewpoints by setting the desired tones within a piece of literature. These tones represent the author's thoughts and feelings toward the theme, as well as set the atmosphere and stage of the story for the audience. Every author will adopt a particular type of writing style, as well as carefully selecting words, phrases, imagery and sentence structure that expresses their desired tone. A story's theme of innocence and experience has two commonly

Over the past month our class have read short stories about African Americans during and after slavery. In the short stories that we have read each victim experienced a dark time in their lives, but each person experienced it a little bit differently. Each person somehow seemed to overcome their adversity to achieve their goals, which they became a better person for their ancestors who suffered. Three stories that caught my attention the most was The Wife of his youth, Incidents in the life of a slave girl, and Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas. Each story the author identifies a theme or gives an idea to the readers. The short stories that I have selected, all of the stories have similar themes such as slavery, but each story

There are lots of great short stories out there, but in my opinion, both ‘Chemistry’ by Graham Swift and ‘The Landlady’ by Roald Dahl are two of the most unique and effective stories. They share both similarities and differences throughout. Comparing and contrasting the way the authors use their inimitable writing style to achieve their intentions in the story will give us more idea how these stories are alike and distinct.

When Henry returns, he has no desire to ride in the red convertible, no desire to wear the bright colored clothes he used to dawn-- instead Henry just liked to sit around and sob about the war. The quote from the middle of the story, speaking about the television, and how Henry just sat “in front of it, watching it, and that was the only time he

People such as Charles will do inappropriate acts just to get attention. The title of the story is Charles and it is written by Shirley Jackson. Charlie the main character was craving attention, therefore he looked for some unkind ways to receive it. The story took place in the 1950s at Laurie’s home and the kindergarten. Laurie was approaching his first year of kindergarten. Laurie faced the problem of adjusting to the new lifestyle that was kindergarten.

place nearly forty years apart. After a second read, however, it was easy to notice a distant

There are lots of great short stories out there, but in my opinion, both ‘Chemistry’ by Graham Swift and ‘The Landlady’ by Roald Dahl are two of the most unique and effective stories. They share both similarities and differences throughout. Comparing and contrasting the way the authors use their inimitable writing style to achieve their intentions in the story will give us more idea how these stories are alike and distinct.

For this assignment I decided to compare and contrast two short stories, “The story of an hour” written by Kate Chopin and “A good man is hard to find” written by Flannery O’ Connor. Both stories were written by amazing writers who provide a unique style of writing, characters and narration. In the “Story of an hour” Chopin employs specific structural and stylist techniques to exaggerate the drama of the hour. The story is told in different small paragraphs making it easier to read and comprehend. Since the story is considered a short story the structure of the story is made up of short paragraphs, many which only consist of two or three sentences.

Compare two short stories where the characters face difficult situations We are comparing the stories ‘Flight’ by Doris Lessing and ‘Your shoes’ by Michele Roberts. They both deal with the issue of daughters leaving home and how it affects the whole family. In ‘Flight’, the granddad is affected most severely but in ‘Your Shoes’, it is the mother. ‘Your Shoes’ is written in a first person narrative from the mother’s perspective.