My Favorite Story

The short story that has the best quality off literary fiction would be, The Rocking-Horse Winner by D H Lawrence, a story about a young boy trying to win his mother’s love by seeking the luck she thinks she does not have also, wanting to give her the luxurious lifestyle she dreams of by betting on horse races he begins to make money to hopefully make everything better. This short story represents setting, plot, theme, symbol and character very well. Without these main points of emphasis being made a short story would have no structure so that’s what I feel is most important.

The story I chose was A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, and the first time I read it I was not looking for significant details. I was more in shock and stunned from the ending to dwell on small details. Then I read it again and started to notice some small, seemly insignificant details that foreshadowed the ending of the story. One can also see how the town views Miss Emily, treating her as an object rather than a person. This can lead to a sort of feeling of isolation and loneliness with no one to talk to, leading into some of her mental illness.

The two stories that I related to and learned the most from were The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien and The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis. Both revealed things in myself that in some cases I already saw and pushed away, or that I never knew and helped me understand myself better. I will begin with The Hobbit.

The first short story I chose is called Baseball in April by Gary Soto. I chose this short story because a whole book was named after this story so I figured if it wasnt any good then why would a whole book be called Baseball in April and other stories. When I read the title it struct me with a story about determination and I love stories about kids who never give up. I also read some of the reviews on the book and most of them said they loved it and they want more. I read the review given by The New York Times Book Review and the review was amazing and The New York Times are a really big company so I asuumed it had to be

I liked the Truth about Truman School story. The reason why I like this sorry is because it was talking about popularity, cyber bullying, revenge, and friendship and it's interesting reading what happened with all these topics. I also like this story because at the end when Lilly, Zebby, and Amr start to talk and they all get involved in making a new page on the

Miline, Ira Mark. Short Stories for Student. Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories Volume 8Virtual Reference Library. Detroit, Mich: Gale. Web. 13 Jan. 2010.

The short story I read was “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote. The book was mainly about two characters, Buddy and his friend, and a memorable Christmas that they spent together a couple of years back before Buddy’s friend passed away. Basically the whole story is a memoir, his own memories and experiences , because Buddy is reminiscing on the past and is speaking upon the memories that he remembers from that Christmas spent with his friend. Even though it was a short story, Capote did a well enough job of describing not only the characters, but also their relationship with literary devices such as figurative language, symbolism, theme, and many more.

Short stories can be bland and boring. As you read some of them, you can feel emotion or just read a boring story about how something changed their life, but these three stories are interesting because they develop horror. These short stories use different elements to create horror. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “A Rose for Emily,”, and “The Lottery” develop horror/gothic elements.

Another wonderful example of a story that is worth telling is The Great Gatsby. This story is about how Nick Carroway, an average man with no problems of his own, is indirectly involved in many intertwined relationships. He is either neighbors with or related to the people in these complicated relationships, so he is put right in the center of all of the drama. For example, Nick’s neighbor is having an affair with Nick’s cousin whose husband is having an affair with another woman. Nick’s narration reveals the complexity of relationships and how they are not as simple as they appear.

The hand and 55 Miles to the Gas Pump were pretty good short stories that kept my mind alert. These stories had great meaning and symbolism behind them. They also illustrated other aspects of life that I haven’t noticed before reading these pieces. In conclusion, there

Throughout this course so far we have read several short stories, many of which I have enjoyed. Each story we have read is different in their own ways, some have figurative language while others have life lessons throughout the story. There are a couple of short stories that I would recommend to friends, although one particularly stands out. The one story that I would recommend to a friend to read would be "A Sound Of Thunder" due to it teaching a valuable life lesson while being enjoyable and having a surprise ending.

Over our short stories unit, I felt liked I really liked this unit because of the insight that it brought me. I learned that morals and themes are not exactly the same thing though some people categorize them as the same thing in some works of literature, and I learned many other things that expanded my knowledge on the basics that I was taught in my English classes. Overall, these things I learned really helped me understand more about the things that we talk about in my English class at school. I appreciated that the short stories focused on an aspect found in literature like tone, symbolism, types of characters, etc. My favorite stories would have to be "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Young Goodman Brown" because they were both able to

We read several stories throughout the course of this class. Of all the stories read, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce was my favorite. I enjoyed the entire story and was surprised by the ending. I was literally rooting him on during the story; I really wanted him to escape and get back to his family. ON the other hand, the story I liked the least during this course was “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty. At first, I thought the main character was suffering from Dementia because she couldn’t even remember why she came to town. However, I was saddened to find out the reason she was on such a journey was to get medication for her sick grandchild.

The two short stories that I read was The Other Place by Mary Gaitskill and The Last Speaker of the Language by Carol Anshaw. I was not thrilled by either story and found that they did not keep my interest and failed to entertain me. With both stories, I tended to get lost in the scene or setting and found myself rereading sections. One of the stories I had to rereading to make sure I really understood the full story. Two characteristics of a successful short stories are the story tends to begin and end abruptly and limited number of characters. Using these two stories I will analyze them to see if they meet the short story criteria.

My favorite story is the Hsu family’s for one primary reason: I find this story the most relatable of all four. Not only have I been passive like Rose even until now, but my mother was also raised similarly to An-mei. In a traditionally Vietnamese environment, she was regularly told to “eat [her] own bitterness” (Tan 260) . Travelling away from her hometown in Nam Dinh for university in the urban Ho Chi Minh City, she was let to think for herself for the first time. Although the permeating expectations of conformity from my father and society were other big obstacles, my mom never stopped telling me to stand up for myself. In my life, my mom has been the only woman, and for hers my grandmother. The maternal bonds in my family have always