The Night The Bed Fell Short Story

Families can be like anchors during tough times. They keep you grounded and make sure that you keep it together when rough waters hit. No matter the challenge they will support you and make sure you are on top of your game. Even at your lowest point, they will pick you up. That’s what family is there for. A perfect example of this can be found in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief and Peg Kehret’s Abduction. The Book Thief is about girl named Liesel who is adopted by a foster family in Germany, (while Hitler is the ruler) who must grow up with challenges such as learning to read, figuring out why her mother gave her up, and hiding a Jew. Abduction is a novel about a girl named Bonnie whose brother is kidnapped by his father and she must try her hardest to stay strong while trying to save her brother’s life. Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, and Peg Kehret’s Abduction, while having numerous differences, are very similar in craft moves and theme.

The story I have chosen to discuss is Rick Moody, “Boys”. This is a traditional coming of age story. The great thing about how Rick Moody story is how he takes several small paragraphs to explain a large amount of time. A good example of this is when he condenses the two twin brothers’ thirty years experiences into one paragraph. The whole story is seen through the eyes of the boys in their childhood home. This story follows the two brothers through many changes throughout their lives, to the illness and death of their younger sister and father. The twin brothers are supposed to be living a carefree childhood running, playing, and being a child but they are thrust into situations that children don’t usually have to deal with at their age. Moody

These two stories were also very different, they were written in different views. The second story was written in first person, it told a story about a past experience. The first story was very general, it related to many women readers,

The Canadian short stories “Brother Dear” by Bernice Friesen and “The Charmer” written by Budge Wilson focus on the struggles and common conflicts between parents and their children during adolescence. Both stories are told in the younger sister’s point of view and show how everyone matures and gains independence throughout and at the end of the story. Friesen and Wilson’s short stories over all focus mainly on the theme of dysfunctional families; which can be represented through the characters, symbolism, and conflict in the stories.

In both short stories, it is evident that aged traditions possess the capability to construct barriers between the strong bonds existent in families. Traditions have the ability to turn

In many stories and novels, parents play a huge role in them. Sometimes the viewpoints of the parents cause a lot of tension between characters. In the stories “Two Kinds” and West Side Story the characters are influenced by parental involvement. West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, is basically a modern Romeo and Juliet, and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. Two Kinds is a story of a little girl who’s mom is so into her thought that her daughter could also be a prodigy at something if she tried hard enough, and urged her to try many different types of talents, especially piano.

Life is filled with tragedies, whether they be subtle or monumental. In society we are constantly surrounded by hardships and situations that test our own individual character, forcing us to react in order to move forward. The main characters in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates each react differently to the various tragedies they encounter, revealing their true identities that lie behind the (facade?)/version of themselves they present to the world. These tragedies that factor into all three works are both presented and interpreted differently in each story: In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard rejoices

The importance of family is not something that we can argue. Our relationships with parents, children, and siblings or the lack of such relationships have a huge impact on our lives. Similarly for literary characters, which authors present as either to have “normal” or “abnormal” relationships. Three authors whose writing published in the 20th century focuses on family as a central theme are Alice Walker, Flannery O’Connor, and Raymond Carver. A commonality between all three stories is the emphasize on the role of women within the family unit. All three short stories use different elements such as characterization, conflict, plot, symbolism and tone, but while Alice Walker and Raymond Carver present “normal” family relationships, Flannery

In the stories, “The Night the Bed Fell” and “Stolen Day”, both narrators have some crazy stories to tell about themselves and their families. In “The Night the Bed Fell”, Mother had thought the old bed in the attic fell on Father and squashed him, but it was only James falling off of his cot. In “Stolen Day”, the narrator, Sherwood feels misunderstood because he thinks he has a disease and his family laughs at him. There are many similarities and differences between Sherwood and James.

in families, there are clashes and rivalry between members–most provoked by the values of society– in strife to be the perfect family. In Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, the main protagonist, comes from a high socioeconomic family with an unhealable wound that Holden’s dead brother, Allie Caulfield causes. In order to look acceptable in society, the parents send Holden away to different schools instead of healing together as a family. In Krakauer’s Into the wild, Chris Mccandless father, Walt Mccandless’s betrayal and infidelity is the root his family’s unhealable wound. They try to cover as much as they can, to be adequate in society. In both boy’s stories, they distrust society and seek a purpose to their lives after traumatic events but,

All families have certain levels of craziness. The relationships between the members are honest and appreciative of creativity. Families have different actions and beliefs towards particular subjects. In a story by Sarah Vowell, she describes growing up with her father who was very political and had a passion for firearms. The environment she grew up in made her the person she is today. Mary Ann Cooper had a personal story that shows how her perspective changed because of her family. All family and personal crises are resolved by strong family bonds.

The narrators in the two stories both possess similar traits, but some aspects of each narrator are distinct. In “The Tell Tale Heart,” the narrator is

A family is the most important and fundamental processes of development in childhood. There are many examples of works that deal with family. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the reader sees how neglection from a family setting can invoke horrible events. In The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing, presents how Isolation and dislike can and will lead to unfortunate events. In Macbeth by Shakespeare, shows the betrayal of a family and how it affects the mind by playing with it in several different ways. Before a person can see effects of isolations, neglection, and betrayal of a family he/she must “climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

Christopher’s mom and dad have departed. Christopher's father has been doing such a wonderful job taking good care of his only son ever since he was a child. When years came by, Christopher happened to lose confident in his dad because dad has been lying to him. This book is called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. This paper contains three literary elements. They are character, conflict, and symbolic. The only critical lens in this paper is feminist lens.

These stories can be seen as different from each other in many ways. The young boy lives in a house in a suburban area without a mother or a father, but with guardians. He has a group of friends nearby he hangs out with. Though, he has no