Different Nature Views

The short stories “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” and “A Place I’ve Never Been” have different settings and plots, but both have similar characters that lead parallel lives. In “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” a character referred to as ‘the young waiter’ is a selfish man who cannot sympathize with those who contrasting lives to his own. The character Nathan in “A Place I’ve Never Been” is selfish and naive. His ‘woe is me’ attitude creates tension in the story; while a tough decision he must make drives the plot. The selfishness, naivety, and age of the young waiter and Nathan all create tension that propels the plots.

Sometimes our everyday experiences can strike us in ways that will influence our thinking in ways that might forever alter the way that we view our lives. In the short story “Fish Story,” Rick Bass primarily uses conflict, symbols, and the changes in a character to present a central theme reflecting the inevitability of our maturing thoughts and growing responsibilities that come incrementally with age. Gullason (1982) shares, “A short story represents a prose narrative usually concerned with a single aspect of personality changing or revealed as the result of conflict” (p. 222). We might interestingly find both of these dynamics within our weekly discussion’s short story assignment. Pigg (2017) explains, “The theme of a work of fiction is as much a creation of readers as it is for the writer because the user’s knowledge and beliefs play a part in determining the theme(s) they will recognize” (Attend Topic 4 Unit 2 [Video]). The writer of this week’s short story was likely to have known the theme that he intended to communicate while also recognizing the diversity of human thinking that gives us a myriad of perspectives. The “’Fish Story’s’ narrator is a 10-year-old boy in the early 1960’s living in rural Texas with parents who run a service station while their customer brings a 86 pound catfish creating a task to keep the fish alive until time to cook it” (Bass, 2009, pp. 1-2). As we recall our childhoods, most can likely remember how our imagination and fantasies began to collide with the realities of life, and this overreaching concept might allude to the theme of this piece of work. The narrator tells us how “He grew dizzy in the heat and from the strange combination of the unblinking monotony and utter fascination of his task until the trickling from the water hose seemed to be saturating and inflating the clouds as one would water a garden” (Bass, 2009, p. 2). As the narrator embraces the mundane task, his daydreams seem to symbolize the innocence of his youth. Later the story’s narrator “speaks less of childhood than of the general nature of the world in which we live, while contemplating that those days were different – we had more time for such thoughts, that time had not yet been corrupted”

Houston’s “A Blizzard Under Blue Sky” explores and exhibits the idea of psycho-physical experience of being in the natural world to heal one’s psychological and emotional ailments through its invigorating contact. The narrative, by drawing on the theme of depression, relates how the narrator, seeing “everything in [her] life…uncertain” (Houston 185), goes winter-camping alone in the high country; undergoes a chilling near-death experience; and gleefully returns reinvigorated with the memory of “joy”, and “hopefulness” (188). Though highly personalized in the narrative, the narrator’s experience of depression is a common phenomenon and, Houston, in this sense, seems to

Tobias Wolff, in his short story Hunters in the Snow, creates a world where moral lines are blurred to the point of nonexistence and his characters have no real guidelines or goals. The subjects of their aimless pursuits seem to be as absent as the deer whose tracks have been covered by the snow. This colorless, pointless world fosters a sense of hopelessness, and each man’s purpose is as impossible as road signs under the fallen snow to identify. Without any moral guidelines, the men resort to aggression to assert their dominance and self-worth, associating affection with weakness and constructing friendships that are short-lived. Kenny’s accident alludes to the futility of a self-centered approach to life; however, even in the triumphs of

This is particularly evident within drifters were a families sense of identity is continuously hampered by their nomadic lifestyle with they must embrace as itinerant workers. Throughout the poem, the blackberry bush is constantly referred to as a symbol of hope that the family would settle into one location “when they came here, she held out her hand bright with berries”. The use of such a symbol brings to light the similarity between the drifter’s erratic life journey and the blackberry bush. As the family move into a town they begin to embrace there environment, only to end the experience as quickly as it began similarly to the blackberry bushes cycle of growth and ‘bright berries’ only to wither and die. This ultimately displays the emotional obstacles within a physical journey that reinforces our inner strength. Furthermore, the negative and positive aspects of the journey of life experienced by the characters are highlighted through the juxtaposing of the girls reaction to the decision to move, “the oldest girl was close to tear/ the youngest girl was beaming”. The positive element of the a family being an individual’s sense of support and identity is vaguely portrayed, however the overwhelming negative sense that such a family provides and undesirable predetermined script of one’s life is emphasised as in this instance it has impeded on the girls growth. This ultimately increases the responder’s awareness of the underlying emotional journey within every physical journey, increasing the inner strength of those that choose to take such

‘The Turning’ is a collection of short stories that follow the lives of the same characters at different critical moments in their lives, by the multi-award winning Australian author Tim Winton. These stories create their own turning, a sense that life somehow, even at its lowest, goes on. In the turning Winton combines accessibility and a strong sense of common character into seventeen short stories. Winton creates characters facing limited life choices which gives an engaging perspective to the characters inside the book. In this text response I’ll be focused on three of these included stories, entitled ‘On Her Knees’, ‘Damaged Goods’ and ‘Fog’. These stories all involve the story of Victor Lang and his life and relationships.

The short story “Paul’s Case”, written by Willa Cather, follows the life of Paul, a narcissistic daydreamer who suffers from depression. Many people disregard the weather as an important part of the setting, however, it is a major point of symbolism in “Paul’s Case” as well as an explanation for Paul’s feelings. Paul’s moods mirror and are effected by the weather in which he is living, winter, and are equally effected by allusions of spring.

In conjunction with the symbolic representation of Elisa’s life, the dramatic description of the environment can also be seen as a unique representation of the relationship conflict between husband and wife. Steinbeck’s foggy description demonstrates conflict through the following statement, "a time of quiet and waiting." This description is interesting because the fields are personified as waiting for rain, however, “rain and fog do not go together” therein lies the conflict just as Elisa waits for a positive change in how her husband treats her (Palmerino, Gregory J). Gregory P. further points out that, “The natural elements of the foothills ranch seem as unwilling to confront each other as the characters that inhabit its environs. Hence, fog and rain can be seen as the female and male equivalents to Elisa and Henry.” This only further solidifies the deep rooted troubles within Elisa and her relationship with her husband. The setting of the story is personified to act as a symbolic representation of the couple’s relationship (Steinbeck, John 337-338).

Realism, according to Howells, is ordinary (Norton Anthology 548). It portrays the story as close to the reality of ordinary people’s lives as possible (Norton Anthology 548). Instead of making the characters,

Since its first appearance in the 1886 collection A White Heron and Other Stories, the short story A White Heron has become the most favorite and often anthologized of Sarah Orne Jewett. Like most of this regionalist writer's works, A White Heron was inspired by the people and landscapes in rural New England, where, as a little girl, she often accompanied her doctor father on his visiting patients. The story is about a nine-year-old girl who falls in love with a bird hunter but does not tell him the white heron's place because her love of nature is much greater. In this story, the author presents a conflict between femininity and masculinity by juxtaposing Sylvia, who has a peaceful life in country, to a hunter from town, which implies her

The two short stories that I have chosen are The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe and The Storm by Kate Chopin. These two stories in particular doesn't have many things in common as far as setting goes, but they do have some significant differences between the two. The author are from two different background and different eras In this paper I will try to compare and contrast these two short stories and hopefully bring something to the reader's attention that wasn't there at first.

Given that the goal is to grow Natureview’s revenues to $20 million, I believe that Option 1 is the best choice. Eight-ounce cups represent 74 percent of the dollar share of the yogurt market and offer substantial revenue potential. Admittedly, this will be a competitive category, but this size is typically located at eye-level as compared to 32-oz. containers which usually occupy the bottom “well”. Additionally, by entering supermarkets Natureview has the potential to see success like Silk Soymilk and Amy’s Organic Foods who experienced an increase in revenues by over 200 percent in two years. Due to the extremely high projected costs for advertising, SG&A, I doubt that Natureview will see a significant profit in the first year; however,

Realism is the portrayal of the reality of everyday life and period of literature between 1850-1900. Realist fictions speculate myths, assumptions, social norms, sentimentality, collective wisdom, and prejudices. Realism stories are usually about the middle-class people, and it aims to show a truthful portrayal of truth. Regionalism is a class of realist literature distinguished by closeness to the habits, language, dialects, manners, history, traditions, beliefs of a particular geographical region. Regionalism manifests the characters of both realism and romanticism. Romanticism is cultural the period from 1830-1860 in America. Humankind is naturally good. The characteristics of romanticism are passion and emotion, nature over the man, spiritual, intuition, and insight. "A White Heron," by Sarah Orne Jewett, is an example of local color because of its realism. Jewett uses characteristics of regionalism like dialogue to show the contrast between the locals and outsiders, habits, their daily activities, the dress, features of a place. "Editha" by William is the story of realism which has many characteristics of realism like details about war; he uses dialect to hold out the trend of the story, using middle-class peoples character. Dean Howell uses a part of romantic style but all together its categorized as one of the

'It is a style of writing in which familiar ordinary aspects of life are depicted in a matter-of-fact straight-forward manner designed to reflect life as it actually is'

The discussion over what figures out who we are, whether it is Nature (heredity, our organic make up) or Nurture (our surroundings) is taking another shape. Through the previous decades, analysts have created distinctive speculations to clarify the qualities of individuals; how we feel, think and carry on. For the most part, these hypotheses were one directional in the nature/sustain question. Today, another way to deal with manage this inquiry is rising. This new approach finds a center ground amongst nature and support. The conclusion that nature and sustain are corresponding and work hand and hand to shape a conduct (an intentional and important movement) is not a bargain; it is a consequence of an energetic investigation of each of the segments of the mathematical statement of heredity and environment and their effects on deciding one 's improvement and conduct. Actually, the more we comprehend about improvement and conduct, the more clear it turns into that nature and support are comparatively impacts instead of determinants, separately as well as in blend. Here underneath, I will Endeavor to uncover the main speculations managing the topic of nature versus support. I will likewise attempt to show the third, new-rising methodology intended to tackle the riddle of "Would could it be that makes us who we are?"