Orphan Train : A Short Story

East Germans to adapt to the new lifestyle by writing many short stories on life in Germany after the war. He also focuses on the emotional withdraw from ordinary life that all Germans go through. This most importantly consists of depression, emotionally and physically. This is best described in “Business is Business”, “Lohengrin’s Death” and “Between Trains in X”. Not only does Heinrich Böll have first hand experience as someone

life that pervades a story”. (Lynn and Lewis : 78). Harry Shaw maintains that the theme tells “Some truth about life or human behaviour”. (Shaw : 13). These concepts of theme in short fiction try to depict that short story, like any other fictional forms, reveals the values of a writer and his phyche of the human condition. Thus, theme involves the philosophical subject, which largely determines the selection and organization of the material and plot in a story. A good story is rarely the depiction

Indecision is a major term in Psychology. In literary discourse it is exhibited in a variety of ways. It is a major organizing principle in many short stories. Particularly, Rabindranath Tagore’s The Postmaster and Ruskin Bond’s The Night Train at Deoli this device is common. In both the short stories the protagonists fall in love with helpless, poor girls. They pity them and exhibit strong desire to take them along with them and thus rescue them out of the abject poverty. However, as a dramatic

about an orphan, The Orphan Train. It also taught me that it’s okay to make mistakes. Anne got her friend drunk accidentally by giving her wine. Anne said, “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.” I also read Tuesdays With Morrie. This book also taught me numerous life lessons and I will never forget the concepts it taught me. Morrie makes me realize that you can’t wait until half way through your life to start being fully present and doing what makes you happy. Life is too short and you

Bud Caldwell is a ten-year-old orphan, living in Flint, Michigan, in 1936. Since the death of his mother four years earlier, Bud has been living in an orphanage and had short stints in several foster homes. The story opens with Bud being placed with a new foster family, the Amoses. Bud soon meets Todd Amos, their 12-year-old son, who teases him mercilessly and calls him Buddy. After a fight with Todd, Bud is forced to spend the night in the garden shed. In the shed, Bud mistakes a hornet nest for

and five other siblings because he did not manage his money well. He was put into a workhouse since his family had to sell all of their possessions. In the workhouse he had to stick labels on boot-black. However he later returned to school for a short while, teaching himself shorthand and was working as a court reporter by the age of sixteen. This gave him the

This is primarily due to the fact that the setting of the story takes place during the Great Depression. Without background knowledge and contextualization, students will not be able to fully access many of situations and events (such as Hoovervilles, extreme poverty and emphasis on jazz music and trains) in the story. In order for students to really be able to digest this text, the teacher would need to ensure that students have an understanding

sent to an orphanage. She used to be told that she would never be able to find a place in a new family because she was not as beautiful as the rest of the girls in the orphanage. Along with twenty other children, Vivian was chosen to get on the orphan train that traveled west and stopped at several cities where people looked to adopt children. However, the adoption of children consisted of certain conditions such as clothing, education, and alimentation. Many children knew that the expectations of

“He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized” (Fitzgerald) F. Scott Fitzgerald, a famous novel and short story author, wrote in his novel Tender is the Night. This statement can be related to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, as they had become so terrible and set on annihilating the Jews that they became ruthless, inhuman people. Consequently, the dehumanization of the Nazis caused the Jews to become dehumanized and treated as though they were animals. In the memoir Night, Eliezer

the Canadian literature. With that in mind, it is essential to delve more on the story of her life in order to dissect effectively her life’s experiences and her personality. The succeeding paragraphs will discuss the biography of Anne Shirley, a character that was created by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The journey of Anne Shirley first began when Matthew Cuthbert arrive at the train station in order to fetch the orphan boy from that he asked of from the Hopetown Asylum. When he first saw Anne,