Continued: A Short Story

By:Audree Richardson 1st hr “The Landlady” Continued Previously in the short story “The Landlady”. A young man named Billy Weaver traveled to bath for his new job. On his way to the Bell and Dragon Billy spotted a boarding house and in the window there was a sign in the window saying bed and breakfast . this small sign seemed to pull him to the front door and ring the doorbell. An old lady popped out right away and welcomed him in .he got settled into his room then went back downstairs.The old

Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson, 1916-1965, was an accomplished author who influenced many people with her award winning stories such as The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House. Shirley Jackson began her life on December 14, 1916 in San Francisco but, spent her days as a child in Burlingame California. As a teenager she began writing poetry and short stories that inspired her to live a life of being an author. When Shirley was seventeen years of age her family moved east and while there, she

As a child, he wrote mostly fiction and short stories based on the people around him and the things he experienced, such as growing up without his parents. Many of his first stories had a common theme of an alienated youth trying to find themselves and where they belong in the world. Capote also seemed to include homosexual themes both in his writing and in his

his southern gothic writing style comes alive. In the short story “A Rose for Emily”, it’s portrayed with the small-town setting, the social values that are forever changing, how people pursue daily life, and the exertion they undergo to find joy in it.” (American Lit) People can truly feel like they are living in the old-time South through Faulkner’s writing. While “A Rose for Emily” was one of Faulkner’s first public and famous short stories, he also wrote many more that are very successful. As

themes and characters of the story in numerous ways. Two major themes of the story include choices and morality. In regard to making choices, Bartleby continuously stated the phrase “I would prefer not to”, which shows that he took advantage of his right to make decisions even if they did not please everyone else. This theme was translated in the film because this is a phrase that Bartleby also stated countless times. The theme of mortality was displayed in the short story when the narrator had a difficult

school's newspaper and served in its student government. And also published his first short story, which appeared in Startling Mystery Stories, and finally after king graduated with a English degree in 1970, he tried looking for a job as teacher but he was rejected in several times, in the beginning, but eventually king went forced to took a job a laundry se he could make a living, but he continued writing stories in his free time, until late 1971 when got offered a job, as an English educator at Hampden

before he filed an annulment. His second wife was Claire Douglas, a student at Radcliffe College. Together, they had a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Margaret. After twelve years of marriage, the two divorced but continued to set their focus on the children. After his divorce, Salinger continued to live a solitary lifestyle. He started a relationship with an eighteen year old through letters, her name was Joyce Maynard. The relationship did come to an end, but many thought that this was certainly not

Rudyard Kipling was an english author that wrote short stories and poems. Some of his famous work would include “Just So Stories”, “The Jungle Book” and “Gunga Din” during the 1900’s. (www.biography.com) He was born in Mumbai, India on December 30th, 1865 in the Bombay Presidency of British India, to Alice Kipling (one of the four Victorian sisters) and John Lockwood Kipling. For Kipling, India was a wondrous place. Along with his younger sister, Alice, he explored the local markets with his nanny

Rye. Following his early success publishing short stories and The Catcher in the Rye, Jerome led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Jerome was raised in Manhattan and began writing short stories while in secondary school. Several were published in Story magazine in the early 1940s before he began serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in

Evan Califano 4/24/12 Modern Europe An Analysis of “This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen” The short story “The Death of Schillinger” was a story about a First Sergeant whom ruled over labor sector ‘D,’ a laboring portion of Birkenau which was formally known as the Auschwitz extermination camp. Schillinger was a short stocky man and was truly evil at his essence; “He visited the crematoria regularly and liked to watch people being shoved into the gas chambers.” (pp.144) One day in August