Short Story : My Story

appearances. In the short story, “The Story of my body,” the author, Judith Ortiz Cofer comes to relations with this. She describes how she was victim of judgment because she was a kid whom looked different than most American kids. Ortiz Cofer tried to change everything about who she really is just to get by for the day without being judged. She was labled different, all she ever wanted to do was to be like everyone else. This eventually led to her being depressed. Within the story, Oritz Cofer describes

Short Story My genre is a short story. The length is around 10 to 25 pages usually. With around 1500 to 2500 words. Short stories started around the 15th century, In the medieval period. Short stories were used as entertainment and also used to annotate history and beliefs. Short stories are basically a story focused on one point. Everything is based of on one single structure or event, and everything goes on around it. For example, if you are aiming at a target, instead of looking around it, you

Flicka The short story, “My Friend Flicka” from the book Adaptations written by Stephanie Harrison was originally written by Mary O’Hara and first published in 1941. The setting of the story takes place in Montana in the 1900’s. It tells of an imaginative 10 yr. old boy named Kenneth who lives on a horse breeding ranch. Although, the story has been rewritten numerous times and made into a big screen movie it’s more than just a great horse story. It still serves a deeper meaning of a young boy

Consequences of Lust In “The Love of My Life” China character reflects to an irrational young teenage girl, she is an intelligent girl that tries to have good grades and be on top of her class. China was raised from rich parents, she didn’t have to worried about money nor paying for college. She was a spoiled young girl that also, got everything she had ever requested. China cared for people’s opinions and wanted to represent her family’s name in a good well-spoken way. China was controllable along

I want to start off by giving a bit of my writing background because there isn’t one. I took this class because I wanted to step outside of my comfort zone, which I did. I have never written anything worth submitting for a grade, but I figured this class would be a good place to start. Reflecting back on where I began, and where I am now, there is a huge difference. I now find myself thinking of themes and ideas to write about. I do not have a good understanding of how well I write, or what is interesting

They say the desert is unforgiving. Especially for those that do not belong there and she definitely did not belong here. Matix confined to a manmade plaster shell in a hospital somewhere in the Chihuahuan desert she had a feeling she was just like a turtle washed too far inland. Just like that turtle who needs the currents of the ocean in order to survive, she needs to use the only moving currents she has left to help her finish what she started. She promised never to use this again but what other

My major work is a short story consisting of four parallel plots to explore the concept of nationalism and xenophobia in Australia. It specifically looks at the impact of these concepts on refugees. My aim is to encourage my audience to formulate conscious political opinions and change hostile perceptions of refugees. My major work is set primarily in a detention center and contains accounts of 4 polarised characters highly involved in the refugee situation—a young Syrian refugee, an older Sri Lankan

Mexican-born author, Octavio Paz, in his short story, “My Life with the wave” suggests the protagonist is symbolic and then remains a supernatural character best understood in literal terms. He supports his claim by showing the reader the speakers difficulty of finding a place for the wave out of the ocean, how the protagonist suffers imprisonment for a crime he did not commit, and of how through the death of the wave the protagonist is able to free himself from the pain and torment he faced when

died I would want to die too.’ The boy said, ‘So you could be with me?’ the father said, ‘Yes. So I could be with you.’ The boy reply to his father, ‘Okay’” (11). This means that the father never wants to leave his son alone. He wants to live and die with his son. The first artifacts that the father finds along his journey is a can of Coca-Cola. “The father withdrew his hand slowly and sat looking at a Coca Cola” (23). A Coke can highlight many things for McCarthy, such as a symbol, sign of deprivation

and who can use their speech to get what they desire. Both Dr. Landis in the short story “My Sister’s Marriage” by Cynthia Marshall Rich and Blake in the short story “The Five-Forty-Eight” by John Cheever from the collection of short stories “Points of View” by James Moffett , and Kenneth R. McElheny are silver-tongued men with bad intentions who abuse their positions of power to get what they desire. Both Dr. Landis in “My Sister’s Marriage” and Blake in “The Five-Forty-Eight” are similar because