The Power Of A Story By Nathan Alling Long Analysis

Source: CAPPELEN DAMM AS, Oslo 2008 – ''Access to English literature, VG3''. Anthony, Burgess, Mikkelsen & Sørhus. Chapter 1, page 23-24.

Tim O'Brien was right when he said “Stories can save us”. They saved him. Writing stories helped Tim turn into Timmy and also into a solider when he was retired and forty three years old. When O'Brien says “Stories can save us”: he lets us know that his stories helped him through the war, they also helped him stay psychologically relaxed after the war, and helped him create better versions of his memories as Timmy and Tim the soldier.

In Kate Chopin’s 1894 short story The Story of an Hour, a woman processes the announcement of her husband’s death. The story revolves around Louise Mallard, a young, pretty woman who has just received word that her husband, Brently Mallard, died in a train accident. Upon receiving the news from her sister Josephine, Louise immediately bursts into tears, an emotional display that, once spent, prompts her to retreat to her bedroom. After a time, Louise repeats her emotional outburst—this time with excitement at the idea she will be able to live her own life. However, Louise’s joy is cut short when her husband, having been nowhere near the accident, arrives home. Her disappointment is so profound she dies.

Charity awoke just before daybreak to the sound of a wolf’s howl. She was use to all sorts of wild critters, but there was something about a wolf's howl, that always gave her an eerie feeling. She peeked out from under the wagon flap, but it was so dark that she couldn't see five feet in front of her. She decided to wait a little while to get up to use the bathroom and make coffee.

In the poem, A Story, by Li-Young Lee the complexity of the father’s relationship with his son is highlighted. The shifting point of view along with emotion evoking diction helps to highlight the strength of their relationship along with the rising internal conflict present within the father. The essays provided that answer the prompt each approach the poem in a way to argue the obvious complex and loving relationship that brings together the father and son.

There are many things in The Story Re that can tell us about the culture and where it came from. Firstly the narrator mentioned a waste of water called Nun, that waste of water is actually now a popular river know as the Nun River and is located in Nigeria. There were roles for specific people in this myth some were higher than others but mostly everyone had a role and job. Re was first pharaoh of Egypt, there were gods and goddesses, messengers and there were the farmers who harvested the crops. In this story there was also Isis and she had been known to be the most intelligent and she was also able to heal people. The Egyptian culture was much more different than our culture today. Everyone had a role and they had to follow it, everyone had

Another interesting narrative is the fact that it is a narrative about a dog; this also gives you insight

The short story “A&P” by John Updike is told through first person narration and is about a teenage male who works at a local supermarket in New England, “A&P”, observing young girls as he is checking out customers in line. The girls have no idea that this young man is privately making judgements of them. The judgements transpire with the lines “there was this chunky one” (438), “there was this one, with one of those chubby berry faces” (438), and “this wasn’t quite so tall” (438), all relating to the three girls he has seen from across his cashier stand. This story is made primarily of commercial fiction, to reach a bigger audience from its captivating story line, to keep one hooked and not want to stop reading. The ways in which in “A&P”

Resistance in Modern Europe was a very common occurrence and took many forms depending on the identity and background of the individual or group that wished to resist. Some factors that influenced the forms of resistance were race, class, and gender. Some instances of resistance that demonstrate the influence of identities in these situations are the workers’ revolt in Paris in the late 1730s, a recount of a man who was kidnapped from his country and forced into slavery, a woman who wrote about being born into slavery, a Jewish man who wrote a diary while he lived in Fascist Germany and witnessed the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the story of a man in Alsace Lorraine who was sent to a concentration camp for being homosexual. All of these accounts

This essay is an attempt to describe the females’ characters between three of the most powerful short stories I ever read. My goal is to describe and compare three different women, in their different circumstances and environments. I will try to analyze all three of them, physiologically and morally, while keeping in mind their time and place in history. This three short stories have a feminist point of view, among others, but I would like to focus on this one. While I compare I will give my opinion and share my views, based on their actions and behavior.

Mrs. Mallard was and elderly women who was just informed of her husband's death. As her sister Josephine tried break the news to her as gentle as possible, due to her heart condition, the poor women began to weep out of shock. She then walked up to her room and locked the door so that no one could come in and bother her. Trying to clear her mind and mourn her late husband, Mrs. Mallard stared out the window of the room and was hit with an ghastly thought. Staring at the spots of clear sky she felt something that she hadn’t felt in many years, freedom. She become overrun with the idea that she was her own person now, sheo could spend her life how she chose too. No matter the type or time of day, it was her own to do what she wanted. She began to love to idea of living a long life, opposed to the dread that has once filled her before. After being stuck in a dull relationship for so many years that she saw no escape from, their finally was a way to

"Digital storytelling provides an authentic personal learning experience- as such; student investment is greatly increased resulting in greatly improved motivation and end product” (Jakes, n.d.). David Jakes’s quote gives us a quick glance into the realm of digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is the use of digital multimedia that includes music, video, voice, and pictures to tell about a topic such as a personal story, or anything else one would want. Joe Lambert (2013) defines it into three different spectrums, “collaboration between facilitator and storyteller”, “the role of literary voice and style that grows out of it”, and “the form the stories take” (p. 37). These stories can take on very emotional

Many people tell stories to inform others about themselves. Throughout my life people in my family have told me many stories, and behind each story there is a purpose. The stories I was told growing up were about experiences that people in my family have had or things that I have done. These stories mean a lot to me because through these stories different family members reveal many things about themselves. They want me to understand their ideas, beliefs, or feelings about a certain subject. They want people to praise or admire what they have done or accomplished. Funny stories are told to humor or embarrass someone, usually me. Other stories express that we are not alone in the world, and there are other people,

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.

The first paragraph of The Story of an Hour summarizes the main elements of the short story. We can begin to see the story take shape as the author gets straight to the point by stating Mrs. Mallard’s health ailment and the possible danger of unexpected news is highlighted with the words, “…great care must be taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Mays 278). We can start to see the direction that Chopin is headed by this first paragraph and the title of the short story is a nod to the duration and the form of which this story will exist.