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Ray Bradbury's short story “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” shares several recurring themes and points with Sara Teasdale’s poem, “There Will Come Soft Rains.” Bradbury’s story describes a lone house in the remains of a futuristic city, destroyed by a nuclear war. Teasdale’s poem states the theory that if humankind were to disintegrate, it would hardly be remembered, let alone missed. Both works share similar elements revolving around rain, and mankind’s passing going unnoticed. Though they

It takes a special type of person to not act in accordance with the majority. However, once over the “mob mentality” people could see things in a different light. In Hernando Tellez’s short story “Lather and Nothing Else”, the protagonist, who is a barber, must have the foresight to make the right call. Two rival political movements are at odds with one another in the setting of the story, 1800’s Latin America. The barber is secretly a rebel and is surprised when a customer of his is Captain Torres

People are oftentimes cast into roles or duties that some might believe are duties for certain groups of people. For example, some people feel nursing is a career for women; and when they encounter a male nurse, they might not be as receptive to him. In other words, they just don’t feel comfortable with their skills. Also, society has placed women in the role of stay-at-home moms and housekeepers. Men who take on the duties of stay-at-home dads are sometimes frowned upon by society and assumptions

Victim 1 Do you ever wonder what it was like in a horror movie? Nothing like a cliche, more like It and maybe a couple others. What a doll that was cursed, able to move on her own and be insane? A doll that can smell a sin miles to acres away and track it down like a hungry bloodhound in the cold winter willing to eat any meat. That’s what happened years ago, I thought it was a legend, but never make a sin in front of the doll. You’ll wake her from her sleep and she’ll take revenge on all humanity

A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker was born in 1893 at her parents’ summer home in New Jersey. Unfortunately, her childhood was very rough. Her mother and her step-mother died when Parker was still a child. She attended a Catholic grammar school, but ended her formal education by the time she was fourteen years of age. In her late teenage years another catastrophe hit, her uncle was on the notorious Titanic ship that sunk and he did not make it. Parker’s series of unfortunate events

In the short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin uses tone to indicate to the reader what she is trying to tell the audience. Kate Chopin uses a variety of tone in the short story through Mrs. Mallard who is the protagonist in the story. In the short story “The Story of an Hour,” the authors describe several tones such cruel, positive, and mysterious tone throughout the story. Kate Chopin wrote the short story between 1800’s to 1900’s, as seen in the text “…truth by a second telegram” (Chopin

Most people have read at least one story about a certain period of time or about a particular person in history, these stories are what novelist classify as historical fiction. Historical fictions are books written about a period, people or a characteristics of a time in history. Therefore, these stories are extremely popular in terms of bringing in moments of history and expanding them to create a more fictitious or relatable story. The Bedford Glossary describes a historical fiction or novel as

The short story All Summer in A Day, by Ray Bradbury is about the power of jealousy and demonstrates if jealousy is not controlled, it will lead to regretful actions upon yourself. Jealousy is a key topic in the story, and in my opinion, is the main topic of the story. Although, there are other key topics in the story. All Summer in A Day is about a group of kids, who all their lives have been living in a world, Venus, with no sun and the constant sound of rain. Then there is Margot. Margot knows

One summer day long ago, a little girl named Julia was playing by an old well near the back garden. In her arms she carried her favorite doll Annabelle. Annabelle was no ordinary doll, for she had three faces. One face was smiling, one was frowning, and the other was crying. Annabelle had long auburn hair and the brightest green eyes. She wore a purple, satin gown and shinny, silver shoes. Julia thought that Annabelle was too beautiful to have a sad or crying face, so Annabelle always wore the face

Jessica Bartlein November 10, 2014 Phase 5 Individual Project LITR201-1404A-06 Melissa Eidson Reading can open one’s mind to the imagination of anything to be dreamt of. Poems, short stories, novels, plays, and dramas are all different types of literature that exist today. All of the different types of literature have their own ways and formats that they are written in. Literature has many ways of speaking to us as we read them, it can strike up emotions or memories that we have or it can