Mole Removal: A Man's Life

“Thanks for the Ride” by Alice Munro, portrays the conflicts in life and the ways we suppress our feelings towards these challenges. This story is told from Dick’s point of view and we get to read how he feels about the situations he goes through. This story takes place in an old, small town called Mission Creek, “It is a town of unpaved, wide, sandy streets and bare yards. Only the hardy things like red and yellow nasturtiums, or lilac bush with brown with brown curved leaves, grew out of the cracked earth.” The setting is a of the lack of life and potential in this town. The way we deal with complex situations depends on how we were brought up, the way we deal with oncoming challenges, the atmosphere we are, the people we are around and

“…I was crushed against a huge woman in black who shook her head and smiled while I stared with horror at a large mole that arose out of the oily whiteness of her skin like a black mountain sweeping out of a rainwet plain.” (Ellison 158).

“Stop it!” called Tatiana, playfully. Her boyfriend, Zach, was inspecting her skin very carefully. “Look,” he answered her, his voice taking on a more serious tone. “Today a woman walked into the clinic for her annual physical. Everything about her seemed fine. She leads a balanced lifestyle, she eats well, she exercises: she’s healthy! But as she was about to leave, I noticed a mole on her arm. It had many of the warning signs of skin cancer. So, I removed the mole. This woman now has to wait for the lab results to see if it was cancerous. If it is, maybe we

In the short story “The Half-Skinned Steer”, author Annie Proulx sets forth a tale about an older gentleman, named Mero who is returning to his childhood home and ranch for his brother’s funeral. For the majority of the story, the tale takes place on the road while Mero is traveling from Massachusetts to his hometown in Wyoming. Throughout the story, Mero reflects back on life events that had happened to him. Mero is challenged by these memories, as they easily affect his thoughts and actions, thus changing his life forever.

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is, essentially, a love story between father and son, in which the companionship of each other is their only salvation. Scavenging alone in a dystopian word, the father and son rely on one another to maintain any sense of purpose. The father is determined to protect his son, causing them to travel towards the coast, attempting to find the other “good guy”. The son clings to his father and relies on him to provide food, safety, and comfort, even in th form of lies.

Everyone who was ever born, will receive two things in their life; a birth and a death. In between those two significant events falls time. During that time, most of us will live long enough to experience growing pains. Such as: love, heartbreak, joy and sorrow. However, the things that can make a man, a man, could make a man a misfit. We will explore two short stories “The Man That Was Almost a Man” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. We will discover the similarities and differences of each and explain that even though they are separate stories that they can be linked together to create an epic tale. “The Man That Was Almost a Man” written by Richard Wright and published in 1940. Is about a young man who want to be a man. He believes that owning a gun will make him a man with hope that people will start to respect him and view him as such. He succeeds in purchasing a gun but, things get hectic when he fires it in the woods. Instead he accidently kills a mule. When he finally confessed about his misdeeds the crowd which gathered around his confession starts laughing at him and makes him feel even more childish. He then recovers the gun he hid fires off the rest of the rounds and hop a train going anywhere.

The story “Car Crash while Hitchhiking” seems like a story about a man who hallucinates while on drugs, but it has a far deeper meaning. The narrator is reliving a personal experience in his head. The car crash that he is in reminds him of his family who died in a tragic accident. This analysis will show this by using examples of the setting, emotion, memory, and “medicine”.

Charlie did his father proud at the funeral. He remembered the speech clearly. “They have to hear you write down at the back of that room?” his father had once told him.

For any literary intellectual that has explored the world of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, having assumed they were in their right mind, would undoubtedly consider the book to be written in a very depressing mood. Set in small town America, otherwise known as Winesburg, where everyone knowns about everyone, but nobody knows anyone, Anderson portrays his own, “Version of the dreamer that (he) imagines walking the uncongenial streets of a small Midwestern town” (Lindsay 29) throughout multiple characters within the collection of stories. All of the characters within the stories are neurotic, made up of strange, lonely and depressed personalities. These characters are repeatedly misled by lies. They are unsatisfied, frustrated, lonely,

In the short story “The Half-Skinned Steer”, author Annie Proulx sets forth a tale about an older gentleman, named Mero who is returning to his childhood home and ranch for his brother’s funeral. For the majority of the story, the tale takes place on the road while Mero is traveling from Massachusetts to his hometown in Wyoming. Throughout the story, Mero reflects back on life events that had happened to him. He is challenged by these memories, as they easily affect his thoughts and actions, thus changing his life forever.

A man who seems to be a schizophrenic hitchhikes with three different drivers before he gets in an accident with his final driver. The narrator, also the main character, is given drugs from his previous drivers. This influences the way the narrator's views towards his surroundings and actions. Later on he gets in a sudden car accident with his final driver along with the driver’s wife, daughter, and baby boy. In Denis Johnson’s “Car Crash While Hitchhiking,” he illustrates his story in a explicit and forthright way to describe the narrator’s character and the narrator's reactions before, during and after the accident.

When I was a little kid, a mole in the middle of my nose is a small part of my identity. At first, it was very small and cute. I truly believe it was kinda easy for people to remember my face and it is part of who I am. However, people started making fun whenever they see me since the mole got a lot bigger than before. They think I look ugly and rustic. At that time, I became less social and loss of self-confidence. And that is the reason why I hated it so much; so, later on, during my senior year, I decided to get mole removal surgery so I can get rid of it. People immediately stop making fun and become friendly to me. This makes me realized that once my mother told me "As long as you have a beautiful heart, then people will love you." As

Many authors are able to use comedy in a way that makes the reader think about everything that person has just read. Once the readers reach the end of “A Walk in the Woods”, a memoir written by Bill Bryson, the final pages invoke thoughtful laughter. When you go through a journey in someone’s life and share their experiences, seeing that did not accomplish their goal even remotely is so shocking it causes them to laugh.

Jack London’s famous short story, To Build a Fire, tells of a man that finds himself in the Yukon territory in North America making his way past a lonesome path that leads him to death. This short story makes one reflect on the foundations and instincts of the man and the dog who had accompanied him. The story shows how the man’s attitude changes as he keeps going down the snowy trail. How he begins as a confident traveler of the Yukon and ends up “running around like a chicken with its head cut off,” (London, 1908, pg. 94) after making mistakes and having regrets.

Working at an amusement park called Ruby Pier, Eddie, known to the people at the pier as “Eddie Maintenance” because of his name tag, is a lonely man full of pain and resentment. He is eighty-three years old and has worked at Ruby Pier most of his life. His life contains many doubts and uncertainties. By the end of Eddie’s story, he learns the truth behind all the doubts that have haunted him his entire life. There are so many aspects of life, some full of pain, frustration, and confusion, that lead to lessons being learned; Lessons about how to let go of one’s struggles.