Fiction Essays

In the novel Anil’s Ghost, by Micheal Ondaatje, it is demonstrated that one of the main themes is the fact that a persons identity is not constant throughout his/her life. It grows and changes as the person does. The author demonstrates this by using Anil’s friend Leif, and sailor as …

The short stories” Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan, and “Who’s Irish” by Gish Jen deal with immigrant mothers and their experiences with their daughters. Each story tells how their is a strain on the mother-daughter relationship and a gap with culture. In “Rules of the Game”, Amy Tan’s …

A successful story needs powerful characters to bring the story alive for the readers, and skillful characterization is needed for such purpose. Characterization is the method used by a writer to develop a character. The method includes showing the character’s appearance, displaying the character’s actions, revealing the character’s thoughts, letting …

The essay “The Carrier-Bag Theory of Fiction” by Le Guin (1988) describes the importance of two dominant stories in the context of new pedagogies. These are the “killer story,” focused on the collective concept of aggression, and the “life story,” represented through the dynamic development of the concept of continuance …

In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” three boys become young men on the third, boring night of their summer vacation when they go to the muddy and shiny lake of Greasy Lake where ordinary men are faced with an extraordinary situation, a much greater force than them that cannot be …

At the beginning of the story all of the information about Rinconete and Cortadillo is given to us by the third-person narrator who is omniscient and descriptive. The boys are described in detail without us yet knowing who they are. They then start a conversation with each other and the …

Raymond Chandler, a fiction writer, once said, “The most durable thing in writing is style.” True, the style is often defined as one of the most important elements in writing. In Amy Tan’s novel, “The Joy Luck Club”, the style significantly contributes to the development of both the tone and …

“Once Upon a Time” was first published in 1989. Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923 near Johannesburg, South Africa. She graduated from the University of Witwatersrand. A prolific writer, Gordimer has published more than twenty books of fiction. When Nadine Gordimer was asked to write a children’s story she replied …

Short story analysis In this analysis I will look at a short story called Nineteen Fifty-Five from You cant keep a good woman down written by Alice Walker. I will analyse the short story by looking at the title, characters, theme, point of view, plot, structure/form and the style. The …

Comparative essay on Leaving by M.G.Vassanji and The Cage by Neil Bissoondath By Michael Rosario 821-685-773 Displacement is a theme that deals with leaving home. being able to better yourself through change. “The Cage” by Neil Bissoondath and “Leaving” by M.G.Vassanji both play on this theme. In these two stories …