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    end. Similar to the lottery story.Mr Hutchinson and his family got beat with rocks I’m pretty sure they regret that. As well as the goldfish story. Sergei wanted to restart everything after he hit the boy.Changes can affect A lot of people in good or bad ways like the poem the boy wanted to bring back the way it was before. In addition the lottery story started off as a group of people showing up to a lottery really friendly then a couple of hours later a family got beat with rocks.The relationship

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    The Comparison of Two Stories The Story of an hour and the Lottery are two shorts stories of the 1800s and 1900s. The Story of the Hour was written by Kate Chopin, an American author who clearly describes the feministic literary study. However, the lottery was a short story written by Shirley Jackson about a fictional town which had each year a ritual named “lottery. Both of the stories the story of and the lottery, had their strong points. In this regard, it is vital to analyze and compare the ideas

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    The stories The Story of an Hour and The Interlopers are similar and yet different. They are similar in that something terrible to the main characters. The reason that they are different is how the main chatacters cope with thier situation. The other reason that they are similar is how after the both cope with thier problem they die. Even though these two stories have nothing to do with each other, they happend to have a few common links wether they be similar or different. In the story The Story

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    Compare and Contrast Essay Reading short stories is often enjoyable, as each individual story varies quite a bit from the others. Although short stories follow a pattern, they have many different themes. Though ‘The Story of an Hour’ by Kate Chopin and ‘The Interlopers’ by Saki seem unrelated at first glance, there are similar themes in both. The main character in ‘The Story of an Hour’ is quite fragile and has a weak heart, making her prone to heart attacks under duress, since she was “afflicted

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    Imagine reading a short story so weird, so filled with horror and eeriness, that the short story becomes a little too creepy, so much that a reader might have to reread a sentence to make sure they read it correctly. Did that character really just die? Is that animal really that scary? Is that house interacting with the characters? A lot of times, nineteenth century author, Kate Chopin does just that to his readers. Chopin uses many different elements of a short story to give his readers an idea

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    The story of an hour and the interlopers are two completely different stories, most people would not think that they had much, if anything in common. When I looked harder at these stories I noticed that they have quite similar conclusions. In the story of an hour Louise Mallard is informed that her husband has just died, she asks to be alone for a while and goes to her room. When she is in her room she begins to have a strange sense of freedom. At first she does not want to accept this. Almost

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    The Story of an Hour and The Road follow a similar premise in terms of the boy and Mrs. Mallard both have been stripped of living a different life because of the confines of their respective worlds. The landscape in both pieces is used to show the entrapment of both characters, but also provide a level of hope based on their interactions with the landscape. The landscape of The Road is constructed with the repetition of words like dark and ashes to create the sense of a “desolate country” built

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    You might be wondering why exactly I chose to compare “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Interlopers” by Saki. Although when you first look at them both, you could hardly say they have any comparisons. After all, they’re both about completely different subjects! But when you go a bit deeper, you’ll realize that there actually are a few. The first similarity that I found was that both short stories have two main characters that are both struggling with each other. In “The Interlopers

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    In order to compare and contrast the short story “The Monkey's Paw” by W.W Jacobs and Ricky Lewis Jr’s film adaptation, one must think about all of the differences and similarities in both versions and when comparing the short story and the film one similarity is how the paw got cursed, and one difference is the ending because in the text nothing to Mr. and Mrs. White but in the film they die at the end. In the text and film one similarity was the story of the paw and how it got cursed “It has a

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    Comparing “The Story of an Hour” and “The Necklace” Short stories are always very enjoyable to read. They are very concise but mostly have such a deep message resonating throughout the text that the reader is left pondering over an extension of the story to imagine the possible ending if they were novels instead. The works under consideration are meant to be compared because of their unique theme which reflects how two authors can write similar yet distinctive stories in different times. Kate Chopin’s

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