The Geranium And The Short Story

Collier uses symbols such as a potted geranium and marigolds to reveal the theme that, when a person is at the crossroads between childhood and adulthood, one must be able to

Short Story Analysis of “The Rages of Mrs. Torrens” by Olga Masters by Jennifer Ward “The Rages of Mrs. Torrens” is a prime example of female empowerment in a small town. This story shows the flair and eccentricity of a strong woman who has a simple chemical imbalance that is later corrected by medication. The author shows a conflict between the townspeople of Tantello and Mrs. Torrens, as well as powerful symbolism in the form of flora

poor health. She was an American author whose novels and stories were filled with characters who physically emotional disturbed. Mary was born in Savannah, Georgia on 1925 then she moved to Milledgeville, Georgia with her mother(Regina Cline). O'Connor earned a bachelor degree of arts from Women's college of Georgia in 1945and received a master of fine arts from the State University of Iowa. She was most renowned as a writer of short fiction. O'Connor won a Kenyon Reviewed fellowship in

Flannery O’Connor’s short-story work occurred during the 1950s and 1960s, a time in which race caused significant tensions among Americans. Raised in the south, Flannery grew up in an atmosphere of overt racism and Catholic fervor. Both of these influences affected the way she wrote. Flannery O'Connor conveyed both her moral and religious values in her writing, and she consistently wrote about religion and race within this narrow perspective. “Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked

Eugenia Collier, the author of the short story Marigolds makes great use of literary devices such as imagery, diction, flashback, and juxtaposition in a way that creates a voice for the narrator that conveys both the regret over, and possibly the longing for her childhood. The diction, that is, the vocabulary choice is expertly combined with imagery, or the unique descriptions and sensory details, in order to allow the reader to formulate the experiences and the surroundings of the narrator's childhood

“The Purloined Letter” which means the stolen letter, who is by Edgar Allan Poe, in 1844 a modern detective story. A letter is stolen that belongs to a female. Later what is on the letter is being used by Minister D who is blackmailing the female. Edgar Allan Poe was born in the year 1809 in Boston, both of parents were actors. They died very young so Poe was raised by a family friend. Poe went to college at the University of Virginia but had to leave the school after one semester because he was

wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see through it not matter what” (Lee, 11). This book is a story about two siblings that experienced many things throughout the whole book, most of them hard and new to them, but at the end, they assimilated to face these things. Their father, Atticus, was a lawyer who did everything at his hands to always do the

country in three short stories; Water Them Geraniums by Henry Lawson, Short-Shift Saturday by Gavin Casey, and Trees Can Speak by Alan Marshall. I will argue through contributing to character development, they provide insight into the construction of contempory Australian identity. In Water Them Geraniums the outback is shown to be an emasculating force, particularly for women, that strips away their humanity until they function in a mechanical way to survive off the land. In Short-Shift Saturday the

Flannery O’Connor through her first book of stories, A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor was a Southern Catholic who lived a third of her life ravaged by lupus, so she was adept at describing living with pain. O'Connor did not shy away from her Christian beliefs, and in fact, all her stories have her special blend of unwavering social and moral themes entrenched in each vignette. Every single detail is important, potent, and biblical in nativity. Her stories are fearlessly faithful and unapologetically

To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee, the novel was published in 1960. The novel was written in a time of racial inequality in the United States. To Kill a Mockingbird is told in the perspective of a young girl named Scout, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, who is naïve and innocent. Scout matures throughout the novel through her father, Atticus, and she becomes more aware of the prejudice in Maycomb County. When Atticus loses his case, Scout and her brother, Jem, learn that blacks cannot