George Saunders

A group of teenage girls in bathing suits walk into a grocery store, making the customers heads turn but drawing the admiration of the young men working the cash registers. The older manager confronts he girls and tells them that they should be properly dressed when they enter any store especially their store and that in the future, they will have to follow the store's policy and “cover themselves”. The story is told from the first person point of view of Sammy. From the beginning, "In walks, these

The story “A&P” by Updike, is a descriptive nonfiction short story. There is great detail that is shared from the first person's point of view. The tone that is set is one of a hot, melancholy day where the store workers are bored and there is not a lot of excitement going on. The plot of the story is about a bored young man who works in a grocery store on a hot summer day. He has the customers and the routine down to a science and even made a song about the sounds of the cash register. The

The short stories A&P by John Updike and An Ounce of Cure by Alice Munro tell a short tale of two teenagers battling inner and outer conflict. Both of the short stories have many differences and similarities which can be seen as the stories progress and the characters gain a sense of realization. In the short story A&P, the protagonist, a teenager named Sammy, is working at a convenience store when three girls wearing nothing but bathing suits walk in. He is immediately intrigued by them wondering

George Orwell's 1984, uses betrayal as a method to further the feeling of alienation and loneliness. “In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits (Updike 430).” The opening of the short story written by John Updike, called ‘A&P’, immediately creates a sense of bewilderment. The setting the author uses as the backdrop is very essential to the story and helps with understanding the main character’s decision to eventually quit his job at the end. The protagonist and main character is

backgrounds face the arduous task of making ends meet and navigating adversities in their daily lives. In its epistolary style, George Saunders’ The Semplica Girl Diaries juxtaposes the incongruous responsibilities of the upper and lower-middle-classes with an emphasis on the lower-middle-class to show the vast discrepancy between the available options in life. Saunders portrays society from the viewpoint of the lower-middle-class through the diaries of the unnamed narrator, providing a unique perspective

In the short story “Sticks” by George Saunders is about a man who dressed up a pole. In the story the pole allows the father to express his life and his feeling to his family. The father represented the pole by being cold, stiff, and generic he didn’t allow such simple amenities such as cake and ice cream. Later in life when the children of the father left his house to go out into the wide world did the pole become the only means of communication to the world outside the father’s house. The father

George Saunders’ “Escape from Spiderhead” from his short story collection entitled Tenth of December is an example of artists engaging in science. “Escape from Spiderhead” is a sci-fi story told by a convict, named Jeff, in a futuristic alternative prison. Jeff and other prisoners at this alternative prison are experimented on with various chemicals in an attempt to confirm the affects of these mind altering chemicals. Like lab rats, the convicts in this prison have almost no say in what chemicals

Heydt-Minor English 02/12/2017 “The Braindead Megaphone” by George Saunders Imagine; you’re at a party with your friends just having a casual chat, when all of the sudden a man with a megaphone starts yelling about whatever it is he’s thinking about in that moment. How are you and your friends supposed to continue your conversation when all you can hear is this stranger yelling about how much he loves early mornings in spring? George Saunders begins his essay “The Braindead Megaphone” with this exact

not remember anything from the past then you are having a hard time managing your memory. Without memory you would be exposed to new and extraordinary things in life. Take for example, “Aliens, Love where are they?” by John Hodgman and “Jon” by George Saunders. John Hodgman and Jon both teach readers how without memories we would have a difficult time knowing who we are, who we love, and what we want in life. Sometimes we have a difficult time knowing who we are as Hodgeman points out that “For even

In The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders, it leaves us to figure out the braindead megaphones in our lives. Our society today, the biggest megaphone is the influence of our media. Whether we see them as braindead or not they influence our lives more than we seem to believe. From the style of our clothes to our political views mostly everything we do is influenced by the outside world in some way. The megaphones in our lives today do a lot more than just influencing. The megaphones in our world