In many ways O'Connor is describing to the readers that the grandmother is a common soul with good and bad qualities, who, though flawed with selfishness and a tendency to criticize in others traits she would forgive in herself, does in the end recognize her flaws and make a real gesture of grace at the moment of death. ... But I believe her final gesture indicates that she was trying to reach out to The Misfit and help him to see the light. ... Whether people believe this gesture is an act of grace or complete selfishness will require blind faith. ...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

The use of facial gestures, body movements, and voices added a life to Shirley Jackson's story that did not speak falsely of the work, but made the overall situation more true to life. ... The director of the movie, however, took this scene from the short story and visualized and vocalized the importance of this characters moment with speech and facial gestures. ...

• Word Count: 1409
• Approx Pages: 6

?Like A Winding Sheet? Ann Lane Petry, who is the author of this short story, was born on October 12, 1908 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. She grew up middle class in a predominantly white community. Her parents, both African American, had a professional status. Her father owned the local drugsto...

• Word Count: 1164
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The idea of confusion in identity is explored in the short story "on the sidewalk bleeding" as a representation of andy who chooses to have an identity in a gang; the Royals. this impacts him not only for what society judges him for, but the end result of death and struggles of setting his true iden...

• Word Count: 588
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

"Araby," a short story written by James Joyce, is about the life of a sexually frustrated boy and his obsession with a young girl. The boy, who is nameless in this story, goes against his religious beliefs because of his sexual desires. We, as the readers, see the boy's actions as he sets through a ...

• Word Count: 701
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The motivation of short story characters, as well as the theme, is revealed by authors through dialogue, setting and symbolism. These three stories stress the need for this kind of writing. In a "Worn Path" Eudora Welty introduces Phoenix through settings to show she's goal oriented. On the other ...

• Word Count: 1014
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The main character in the short story "Araby" by James Joyce is a young boy that looks through life with self-deceptive eyes. He thinks he is in love with a girl, but in reality all he has are his romantic thoughts and an unrealistic idolization. It is a story about self-deception - a young boy's ...

• Word Count: 784
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

There are many ways to deduce the title that William Faulkner has named this story. Roses are a center of symbolism and have many different meanings. For example, they can mean love or they can mean war. The content and the narrative of the story, support the rose as a significant symbol in the sto...

• Word Count: 718
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In his short story "A & P" John Updike utilizes a 19-year-old male to show us how a boy gets one-step closer to adulthood. Sammy, an A & P checkout clerk, talks to the reader with first person narration. The setting of the story shows us Sammy's position in life and where he really wants to be. T...

• Word Count: 725
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Jig's remark at the beginning of the story that the surrounding hills look like white elephants comes across as a normal yet random observation but serves as a "foot in the door" gesture to get engage in conversation about the couple's unexpected pregnancy. ...

• Word Count: 1134
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Flannery O'Connor's background was a big influencing factor in her decision to write the short story "Revelation." One of the more important influences on the story is her Southern upbringing. During her lifetime, Southerners were very prejudiced towards people of other ethnicitys and lifestyles. ...

• Word Count: 1419
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Itzie is also a huge class clown, when Rabbi Binder puts Ozzie on the spot, Itzie made gestures behind the Rabbi's back, in order to make the class laugh and take some of the heat off the situation Ozzie got himself into (1865). ...

• Word Count: 1080
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography

The kiss Characters Nathalie, single spoiled female Brantain, wealthy single bachelor Harvy, friend of Nathalie Scene: A shadowed room with its curtains drawn against the sunlight, a smoldering fire with an uncertain glow to it. Brantain, a not so handsome, innocent, and enormously r...

• Word Count: 1122
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Literary modernism is characterized by the word 'uncertainty'. The modernist movement stood for progress, freedom, and social equality. The authors or modernist works did not support institutions like the government and religious organizations, but their works were inspired by the disillusionm...

• Word Count: 992
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the American short story "The Moment of Decision", Stanley Ellin fabricates a suspenseful mystery ending in a twist. The main character Hugh Lozier is described as a good man of perfect self-assurance. " Hugh was the exception to the rule that people who are completely sure of themselves cannot ...

• Word Count: 900
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In John Updike's "A&P," Sammy a nineteen year old checker at a local grocery store meets three bathing beauties who inadvertently end up affecting his entire life. It is a summer day as Sammy is tending to duties at his third slot register, when three girls scantily attired in two piece bathing suit...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Flannery O"Connor's Magnificent Use of Foreshadowing in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Foreshadowing is a literary technique used by many authors to provide the reader with a glimpse of future events that will transpire within the work, thereby hooking the reader into the story and retaining the r...

• Word Count: 2114
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

"The Initiation" The short story "A & P" by John Updike involves a young narrator, Sammy, who attempts to make a heroic gesture upon three girls "in nothing but bathing suits" (Updike 12) by quitting his job. ...

• Word Count: 1410
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Conflict Has Many Meanings Conflict has many meanings composers uses a variety of different techniques to represent different conflict in their texts, this is shown in the prose fiction "The catcher in the Rye" by J.D Salinger, the short story "Tri" by Frances Echin, the film "Lord of the Rings...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7

James Baldwin is considered one of the most important African American writer of novels, poetry, short stories and essays, as well as a civil right activist. He was born in New York City's Harlem in 1924 (Smith 235). Due to his mother's inaccessibility and his stepfather's stern and remote manner, B...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

In the short story "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather, the reader is introduced to a strange young man named Paul. Paul, obsessed with those living in the lap of luxury, continually tries to mentally escape the world around him. Paul's outlet is Carnegie Hall, where he works as an usher. Paul escapes ...

• Word Count: 1360
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," Asals claims: One can easily pass over her [O'Connor's] hope that the grandmother's final gesture to the Misfit might have begun a process which would "turn him into the prophet he was meant to become"; that, as she firmly says, is another story, and it would be a reckless piety indeed which would see it even suggested by the one we have. ...

• Word Count: 2384
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

"To him it was not what he actually accomplished by means of the sacrifice that mattered, but the sacrifice itself, the gesture-something done fore her sake" Owing to the little self-respect that he had, he decided to sacrifice his relationship with Ann and later on his own life to show Ann he loves her. ...

• Word Count: 2012
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" has become an American classic. Irving created a character with American traits that loves to help other people as well as their businesses. Irving's goal was to pass a story on to future generations of a character with the common virtues Americans should posses ...

• Word Count: 1834
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

(4282 words) I have chosen to research and write my Extended Essay on Edgar Allan Poe and his portrayal of perversion, which is present in every human's heart. I read many of his short stories and realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. I have watched movies that were created from his textual creations, read his poems, and his stories. Though often referred to as a psychopath I believe that Edgar Allan Poe is a genius in his own right, and has written more reliable products analyzing the human psyche than was possible for anybody in his time, perhaps e...

• Word Count: 4324
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School