... short stories discussed within this paper are; I want to know why by Sherwood Anderson, The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence, The Grave by Katherine Mansfield and My Son The Fanatic Hanif Kureishi. These short stories are all associated through the theme of childhood and youth and ... and contrastively discussed by using this theme as well as different fictional elements. Sherwood Andersons, I Want To Know Why', like Mansfield's The Grave' are stories about unaware children, and their entrance into the world of knowledge and truth via the process of initiation and sudden awareness...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... is the way the stories appear to an outsider; of course, I am not qualified to speculate on how the Parsi reader might react. Amin Malak, in a review of the book, notes that "the writer's sympathies preclude his condemning or disowning his culture in its entirety, and the humorous rendition of character and incident makes the criticism poignantly effective and lasting" (103 ... . Outside is rotten to the core, he confirms over and again, and will corrupt the most decent man, even a man like Gustad Noble. David Townsend, in a review of the novel, notes that "the story's private dimensions...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... is the way the stories appear to an outsider; of course, I am not qualified to speculate on how the Parsi reader might react. Amin Malak, in a review of the book, notes that "the writer's sympathies preclude his condemning or disowning his culture in its entirety, and the humorous rendition of character and incident makes the criticism poignantly effective and lasting" (103 ... . Outside is rotten to the core, he confirms over and again, and will corrupt the most decent man, even a man like Gustad Noble. David Townsend, in a review of the novel, notes that "the story's private dimensions...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... knelt down at prayer, he scowled an muttered to himself, and gazed sternly at his wife, and turned away. And when he had lived long, and was bore to his grave a hoary corpse, followed by faith, and aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour ... ...

• Word Count: 3188
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... . The BBC declared a National Emergency and stopped broadcasting for the night. Nat tries his utmost to put his family at ease because they are sensing that the situation is very grave. After supper they heard planes and Nat's wife and children get their hopes up. Nat does not, because he knows that this venture was suicidal but he does not mention ... ...

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• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

... the threat of death. Prince Prospero's masked ball or dance reminds us of the dance of death, as portrayed in old paintings, as a skeleton leading a throng of people to the grave, just as the prince leads his guests to the Red Death. The significance of time in this story is seen in the symbol of the "gigantic clock of ebony" (p.47 ... ...

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

... . The BBC declared a National Emergency and stopped broadcasting for the night. Nat tries his utmost to put his family at ease because they are sensing that the situation is very grave. After supper they heard planes and Nat's wife and children get their hopes up. Nat does not, because he knows that this venture was suicidal but he does not mention ... ...

• Word Count: 4405
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

... of the two stories in order to create a reader's perspective on the text and thus become able to trace their respective messages. Whereas the Canadian story is written in a rather grave and matter-of-factly tone, Irving's story abounds with irony and satire and there is an all-penetrating sense of Irving making fun of traditional literary forms as well as ... ...

• Word Count: 2890
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate