Similarities And Common Steads In A Short Story

In the story Fish Cheeks, by Amy Tan the narrator use figurative languages to communicate a cringeworth experience during the Christmas Eve dinner that alter her perspective of her family’s heritage by recognizing her shame was trigger by other people’s feelings more than her own. The speaker expresses her nervousness before the Prime Minister’s family joins them for dinner. The author unveils her pessimistic thoughts with “What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas?” The use of repetition intensifies her stress on how the Prime Minister’s family will judge her indecent family upon his family’s arrival to the Chinese Christmas dinner.

As the story develops, the reader’s thoughts are guided by the structure of the piece in a way that Tan is able to share an important lesson through the form of a personal narrative. The opening text immediately introduces the narrator and her insecurities as she wishes for a “slim new American nose” (Tan 1). The story initially takes on a negative tone as Tan proceeds to have a negative outlook throughout the entire evening. Her overwhelming anxiety can almost be felt by the reader as she worries what Robert will think of her “noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners” and overall “shabby Chinese Christmas” (Tan 1). With the tone set, Tan continues to amplify each dreadful detail of her family’s traditional Christmas Eve dinner. This includes the actual meal, that of which appeared to be

In the essay "Fish Cheeks" it says, "For Christmas I prayed for this blond-haired boy, Robert, and a slim new American nose." This statement proposes that Amy thinks if she looks American to the outside world she will become American. Amy Tan is very embarrassed by her family who does not try to change to fit in, but shows their culture proudly. "At the end of the meal my father leaned back and belched loudly, thanking my mother for her fine cooking. "It's a polite Chinese custom to show you are satisfied" explained my father" (Tan 6). She then goes on to wonder what Robert would think of her family's "shabby Chinese Christmas" (Tan 2) because that night for dinner, they would be having her mother's strange Chinese menu instead of the traditional roasted turkey and sweet potatoes. In conclusion Amy Tan is scared that her family and the menu will reveal that she is indeed Chinese so she won't be able to hide it from her crush any

Similarities and differences are used in stories to often help support the plot. They help to move the story along. In the short stories; The Pedestrian by Ray Bradberry, Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket by Jack Finney, and The Trip by Laila Lalami there are similar settings, themes, conflicts, and characters that the authors use to help develop the plot. The stories may have different concepts and meanings which help bring forth the plot. These similarities and differences are used to help support how the reader feels and how the story is developed.

“Popular Mechanics” by raymond carver and “lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl have similar short stories in many ways like for an example they had a husband and wife and they both had a baby in some way shape and form and in each short story they have something died because both people got into a fight. next

Many narratives, whether or not it is noticeable, share similarities. This can be due to various reasons, such as the authors decision of genre, the intended audience, as well as many other factors. The novel “Indian Horse” by Richard Wagamese and the short story “Perspective” by Taren Orchard have many things in common. One big similarity between both stories is that they are centered around young First Nations boys that have experienced hardships through life. Some other connections are how both narratives have someone who is under the exposure to alcohol abuse due to stress.

Trace three of the following threads through the novel. In two paragraphs for each explain the various literary effects of each of the threads and how each is related to the theme. Use quotations from the novel to support each analysis.

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But because of the embarrassments at school (“My voice was apt to come out squeaky”, “My hands became slippery with sweat”, (etc.) she was determined to not attended the Christmas dance (“Formerly I had considered falling off my bicycle and spraining my ankle and I had tried to manage this;” (etc.)). After failing multiple times she decided to go the dance, which was a dramatic change in her emotion. She wore her beautiful dress and let her friend Lonnie do her hair and make-up (“I sat in front of the mirror and Lonnie stood behind me, fixing my hair”), after finishing she became exited. After the long walk to the dance her personally takes a turn when the first dance was the most popular boy “Mason Williams”, and he blows her off (“He took his hand off my waist and dropped my arm”). Nobody wanted to dance with her; her emotion became sad and upsetting (“Please me, please me, and I locked my fingers behind my back”). Therefore she began to hide until a young lady in the washroom approached her; this introduced a different role in her because the lady was older and fun (“Mary

Have you ever been asked when you read a story if you could relate to it or the character one way or another? Will your not alone with being asked that question during class we read three stories one was about a man who did not trust his friend with a fish who could grant wishes in result he had committed murder, another story we read was about a girl who has/had a dad who had to leave behind his Indian ways but she remembers every little detail about him from when he would arrive home to how he slept, and the last story we read was about a village woman who lived in a village with tradition of throwing stones at the chosen one till they die. In some ways a person would be able to relate to the characters but what I had been asked was what relationships do they have with other characters and how would they relate to me. In many ways they do relate to me in personality traits. Others relate to me by friends and family essay is about how they relate to me and in what ways.

Some of the most classic books have some themes in common. Romeo and Juliet and the Odyssey are the books that three common themes. The common themes are love, loyalty and hate. The book Romeo and Juliet is about two families, one a Capulet and the other a Montague. Both families had children named Romeo and Juliet.

The common theme that connected theses two individual works literature shows to be present in my own life. An example that can appeal to this claim happened at school.

What does almost every piece of writing have in common with one another? It would be that just about every piece of writing has a message that it wishes to communicate with the reader. A message present throughout a literary text is called a central idea and almost every literary text has one. This means that not even one of the oldest literary works is exempt from having a central idea. One example of this non-exception would be the epic poem, Gilgamesh a a long narrative Sumerian poem that came into existence between 1600 and 1000 B.C. and is speculated to be the first ever work of literature with a human hero. Gilgamesh is the story of a king named Gilgamesh who is two-thirds god and one-third man and is at first arrogant, selfish,

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Short stories can share themes, motifs, symbols, consequences, and plot lines, even if there is never any intention to share a common element between the stories. The stories can be written close together or in different decades and still be linked to the one another. They can also be worlds apart with different meanings in the end, but that does not stop them from having similar ideas expressed within them. The following three stories, “Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by DH Lawrence, and “The Lady in the Looking Glass” by Virginia Woolf, are three totally different stories that share common threads that make them the stories that they are.