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Read the Grimm Brother's Cinderella ( National Geographic web site.) and at least one other version of the story (see course materials for a list--remember, Disney versions are not a choice for this comparison.) How are the versions similar? Different? Appropriate response is one to two well developed paragraphs. In both stories Cinderella’s mother died while she was still young, and her father re-married a vile woman with two equally wretched daughters who abused Cinderella. Further similarities

Imagine a world without stories, nothing to read, nothing to learn, and right now you know nothing. In the story “How Stories Came to Earth” that was exactly their problem. A long time ago there were no stories on earth for anyone to tell before the First Spider, Kwaku Anansi came along and spread them through his webs. Both “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Master Cat” are trickster tales, In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story, which exhibits a great

and thus, he is simultaneously telling two stories, but not in the traditional sense expected of a frame story, for this is not a story within a story, but rather, a story behind a story. The frame takes Changez back to the past, but when he finishes retelling the past, the frame is no more and the reader is back in the present. Therefore, when the past is put in conjunction with the happenings in the cafe, only one story is being told. The second story is conveyed through the interaction of the

An Ex-Mas Feast Summary Uwem Akpan’s story, “An Ex-Mas Feast” is a story of the struggles that one family goes through to give gifts on their upcoming Christmas season. Akpan introduces the reader to the struggles of the main characters, which directly ties into the details of impoverished town that they live in. Jigana, one of the story’s main characters, starts off as a naïve 8 year old little boy who was anxious to start going to school. In a stark contrast, Maisha, the eldest sister

as he left his mark on literature, being the first one to portray authentic moments in American life. He tells the stories of many “faces” he saw in his dreams, describing their deeply moving lives filled with secrets. The twenty-one stories in the novel are united through the setting, Winesburg, and the main character, George Willard. The novel is character driven, and the stories have very weak plots. Winesburg is a small town, full of lonely characters whom Anderson calls “grotesques” because

articles packed with nothing but boring statistics. Sacco may be a journalist, but there’s much more to him than his notepad and pen; he’s a traveler, an artist, and someone who thinks making a difference in the world is important by putting people’s stories out there. According to his Wikipedia page, Sacco had a hard time finding a job with hard-hitting, attention-grabbing pieces that would affect his audience. So instead of working a job where he wasn’t interested in what he was writing about, he decided

or even interactive films. Bissell says “I came to accept that games were incompetent with almost every aspect of what I would call traditional narrative.” This is showing the readers that even though there is a plot and story line, as characters can control and alter the story line or outcome by what you do or see throughout the game. Bissell Explains he likes the freedom of being able to control what he sees and the fact that it’s “intensely private.” Bissell states that

Escaping Loneliness In "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner's use of setting and characterization foreshadows and builds up to the climax of the story. His use of metaphors prepares the reader for the bittersweet ending. A theme of respectability and the loss of, is threaded throughout the story. Appropriately, the story begins with death, flashes back to the past and hints towards the demise of a woman and the traditions of the past she personifies. Faulkner has carefully crafted a multi-layered

You have to get help!” I yelled into the phone. “Rob, what’s wrong?” he replied. “You’ve heard about the plane crash?” “Of course. Who hasn’t?” “Well, I came down here to get a story, but everyone else left ages ago. I found a girl, she’s getting crushed beneath a bit of the plane. I don’t know what to do; I can’t get her out by myself. Can you get help, please?” “Okay, first of all Rob, you need to calm down

9 October 2012 The muder of Meredith Kercher was covered very differently from beginning to end. Media bias was present on both sides of guilty and not guilty. The story was hard to keep straight as information was either left out or presented falsely. News articles presented soon after a story, is useful for awareness of the issue; however, exact details are generally not presented fairly or true fully. An article written in 2007 was one of the first published after the murder of Meredith Kercher