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Wikipedia and Richard F. Peterson ‘s DLB articles on Ford Madox Ford give the impression that this English novelist and poet was a very versatile writer. This interpretation can be substantiated in this synthesis through the following three categories: biography, literary life, and promotion of literature. First, Ford was born in a very artistic family on December 17, 1873, at Wimbledon in England. Ford was the eldest of three children of Catherine Madox Brown and Francis Hueffer. By profession, his mother

Flicka The short story, “My Friend Flicka” from the book Adaptations written by Stephanie Harrison was originally written by Mary O’Hara and first published in 1941. The setting of the story takes place in Montana in the 1900’s. It tells of an imaginative 10 yr. old boy named Kenneth who lives on a horse breeding ranch. Although, the story has been rewritten numerous times and made into a big screen movie it’s more than just a great horse story. It still serves a deeper meaning of a young boy

in literature has now become an established discipline for its gives a picture of what is happening in a society. This paper makes an attempt to study law and its portrayal in the literature by bringing in Franz Kafka’s short story “In the Penal Colony” in the context. Kafka’s short story can be studied as a depiction of a colonial state and its people being deprived of a proper judicial system and thus are facing injustice and inequality. Keywords: Law, authority, literature, Franz

relationship with the inspirations for their characters, writers can successfully characterize these imaginative personas. F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most notable American writers of the early twentieth-century, is no exception; a number of his short stories, including “Babylon Revisited,” “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” and “Winter Dreams,” can be seen as self-reflective or even autobiographical. Fitzgerald’s recurring tendency to model characters

Holocaust was a horrible thing to happen to Jews and other groups of people who had to experience this. Each stories connects to the Holocaust. ”Night”, the first story, is an actual biography of someone who had to experience the murder and anti-semitism first hand. “First they came for the communist”, the second text, was a short

rejoicing in the death of her husband. The fact that she pays for her elation with her life at the end of the story is not enough to redeem either the character or the author. In Donald F. Larsson's entry on Kate Chopin in Critical Survey of Short Fiction, we learn that consistently... strong-willed, independent heroines... [Who] cast a skeptical eye on the institution of marriage is very characteristic of her stories (11). In "The Story of an Hour", we do not so much see as intuit Mrs. Mallard's

a lot of recognition for the money they win. But what would happen if there was a small town where people held a yearly lottery in which the “winner” was the member of the town who was not sacrificed? This question is answered in Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery.” In reading this story, and reading literary criticism about the story, there were many symbols and much symbolism in this story. 1 Biographical Analysis Shirley

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was a highly acclaimed poet and writer and was a major figure in world literature based on his proficient writing. He lived a difficult and sad life, which was shown through his poetry. Poe’s writings such as “The Tell Tale Heart”, “The Raven”, and “The House of Usher” were major literary classics. Poe had a major impact in the romanticism movement of poetry and a major innovator in the modern day genre of horror. Edgar Allan Poe lived a painful and arduous life

community while the latter revolve around the issues concerning herself more than any other party. As her mental health deteriorated, Shirley Jackson’s stories began to revolve around those illnesses instead of the outside world. Shirley Jackson’s short stories; “Flower Garden” and “The Lottery”, are two great examples which show how she saw the world before her mental illnesses took over. Both works deal with outside factors that punish a character instead of the inner factors such as mental illness

often had symbolism of physical and psychological wounds (“Frida Kahlo Biography”). People still use symbolism to express their thoughts and feelings or connect with readers through their works of art till this present day. An example of this is an American fiction author by the name of Danielle Evans. Evans wrote multiple short stories and debuted it into a collection known as Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. In this short story collection, she describes her characters to be those who wrestle