Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister

Louisa is a minor character in the book Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt. Although she doesn’t have a main part in the story you get many mixed feeling from her. Louisa has mixed feelings on what happened to her brother, Franklin. “And as Henry watched, Chay looked straight at Louisa-who had also looked up and who was staring at him, her arms so tight around herself that she looked as if she was trying to crush her own heart(81).” As Chay walks out of the courtroom Louisa looks at him in an intense way.

2. King Uther invited the Earl and Countess of Cornwall to his castle. Then he wanted to marry the Countess but she said no, then The Earl and Countess ran away in the dead of night. When Uther finds out he threatens the Earl. The Earl puts himself and Countess in different castle. Merlyn puts Uther in the Earl’s castle and Uther kills the Earl then forcefully married the Countess and rapes her.

Based on the story, “Charles”, Shirley Jackson makes it perceptible that the character, Charles, is Laurie. The author effectively makes it clear to any reader that Charles is Laurie. The obvious statements in this story make the critics correct because Laurie is being just as rude to his father as he is to the other kids. The mother always changed the subject when Laurie was rude to his father; many opinions are stated that his father was rude to him at home and he carried it from home to school. Many of the stories that Laurie told were hinting to the parents that he was Charles. The parents thought that Charles was giving Laurie a bad influence, but the parents were gullible and they didn`t find out that Charles was Laurie until the end

Short stories have fully developed themes but appear significantly shorter and less elaborate than novels. A similar theme found in short stories “Winter Dreams” written by Scott F. Fitzgerald and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner included the social and environmental influences that encouraged and controlled the character’s life and decisions. In “Winter Dreams”, the main protagonist-- Dexter-- fell into a fixation over a young, whimsical blueblood, Judy Jones. His obsession led him to believe that Judy Jones reciprocated his feelings for her, leaving him bare and mortal-- despite prior beliefs. Following her father’s death, Miss Emily fell into a dark obscurity due to the pressure and compulsion of having to carry on the honorable family name. While using a unique point of view (first person peripheral), “A Rose for Emily” followed a mysterious and desirable woman named Miss Emily as her hometown tried to understand her peculiar ways and began to find her disgraceful. By comparing and contrasting these two literary pieces, a similar organization-- including the writers’ purpose and themes-- should become clear. By using literary devices-- such as point of view, dramatic irony, detail, and figurative language-- Scott F. Fitzgerald and William Faulkner conducted two short stories similar in aim and reasoning, probable for contrasting and comparing elements within the parallel writings.

The short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Conner are mind-blowing and a little scary. One of the stories is about an old grandmother and her family being murdered, and the other is about a lady who decided to kill her lover and then sleep next to his cold dead body. William Faulkner and Flannery O’Conner both decided to make the main character a southern woman and use interesting items in the story to symbolize what going to happen at the end.

However, on the very next page of the novel, our view of Marlowe is undermined. As the

151) This is immediately followed by Carmen Sternwood appearing, naked, in Marlowe’s apartment. Unlike any other scene in the book, this causes Marlowe to show a great deal of annoyance and anger to Carmen, resulting in him angrily kicking her out of his apartment before letting loose his anger on his bed. (Chandler, Pg. 153-159) Where Spade fell in love with his femme fatale, Marlowe is on the opposite end of the spectrum. He subverts the trope in an entirely different way. Because he knows that the women in these investigations may attempt to manipulate him, he uses that knowledge to manipulate them back so he can get closer to the truth. The biggest example of this is in the final scene where Marlowe heads to an empty makeshift gun range with Carmen. He already knows she’s responsible for Rusty’s murder, and he uses that to turn the tables and get her to admit the truth by placing blanks in his gun before she attempts to murder Marlowe. (Chandler, Pg. 215-220) Chandler’s Marlowe doesn’t get involved with the femme fatales at all, showing the biggest different between Marlowe and Spade, who is put in bad situations as a result of his.

There views were different and often clashed. Her desire to be who she truly desired to become, compares to the first short story. Sandra wrote, and wrote, and wrote. She had journals, papers, essays, you name it she wrote it. Her family on the other hand, did not read her writing. They were not interested, nor were they capable of reading them due to the language barrier.

Life in the 1960’s was not sweet like pie for the women who found themselves stuck in an endless loop of clearing someone else’s tables, raising someone else’s children, and living by someone else’s rules. These black maids lived in fear, knowing the white ladies they worked for could ruin everything for them by saying the wrong thing, or having the wrong attitude. The book, The Help, and the movie of the same name have quite a few differences that I noticed. It may only have a Lexile of 730, but that does not reflect the extreme measures this story goes to tell an amazing tale of bravery and strength that nothing else can rival. However, the author of The Help, Kathryn Stockett, and the director of the movie, Tate Taylor, knew what they were

Her life was not easy, her husband got shot and was left alone yet she came back to care for him. That didn’t stop him from verbally abusing him. But when push came to shove, she just left because she kept expressing how she felt. She could have killed her husband if she let her anger pile on inside but she let it out and it made a lot of space in her heart to forgive her husband. Writing and other forms of self-expression have helped many others alike so this says a lot about the usefulness of the literary arts.

After the murder, the narrator hears a knock at the door. He proceeds to open the door to find that it is three policemen, who were there because of a disturbance call. The police tells the narrator for why they are there, which a neighbor heard a scream in the night. When the narrator hears this, he tells the police that it was his scream. Once the narrator welcomes the police to search the home, the narrator goes as far as leading police into the room where he had committed a murder and hid the body. The narrator cleverly comes up with an idea to hide the murder, “The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search-search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber” (Poe, 887). The narrator shows the police that there was nothing abnormal in the house, he proceeds to talk to them while feeling at ease.

Agatha Christie, author of the murder mystery And Then There Were None, used foreshadowing and both external and internal conflict to portray the theme of her novel that justice can be served for the crimes that go unpunished. Christie used these elements because she enjoyed mystery and she liked to keep her readers engaged while reading. Agatha Christie is still considered one of the best, if not, the best murder mystery writer today because she wrote the first murder mystery novel and she wrote many more after that that was well loved by people.

One of the most influential authors of all time, Edgar Allan Poe, uses dark imagery and complex syntax to make his short stories and poems dark and mysterious. Poe’s dark, tragic backstory contributes to his dark writing style. His father left him when he was young, and his mother died when he was only three. He then went on writing poems, and after he finished his school, he found his fiance cheating on him, so he moved to Boston to get away from everything he knew. He then married his cousin when she was only 13, but she died 11 years after. Annabel Lee was likely based off of his wife's death, having wrote it shortly after her death. Overall, Poe used his dark imagery and complex syntax to write his gothic short stories and poems such as Annabel Lee and Fall of the House of Usher.

While reading “Little Things” by Raymond Carver I began to realized that he was using several different literary devices to compose a story of many interpretations, such as: imagery, foreshadowing, symbolism, communication, conflict, expression, and suspense. “Little Things” is a tale of two stubborn parents that are separating without any self-tolerance or consideration of how their actions can affect their child. The statement made by Carver is that actions or words can lead to catastrophic endings. At the end of the story, he wrote “in this matter, the issue was decided” to imply that when a relationship involves a child, the intimate relationship between parents should be more empathic. A similar story that touches the same statement

Imagine being born just so you can give up your cells and organs to your sister with Leukemia. That is the life of Anna Fitzgerald, and her sister Kate. The book I read is titled “My Sister's Keeper”, the title is the same for the movie. Personally, the movie was better for me because I like being able to see things visually and in detail. The way the book explained the characters I was really able to imagine them in my head and in the movie it wasn't so much easier to understand what was going on