Fiction Essays

‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson is “possibly the most widely known American short story” (Coulthard 226) of a time. Yet critics, ever since the story’s publication during the post-World War years, have never managed to agree upon the meaning of the story or its significance. Interpretations vary widely ranging from …

Preferred language style: English(U.S.) within the stories we have read in ` The Lone Ranger Fist Fight in heaven` by Sherman Alexi there are many common themes. Identify one of those themes and show how it materalize within the elements of fiction. Use examples from at least two of the …

As an acclaimed American author of fiction and the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, Tony Morrison’s novels are radically powerful, exploring the realms of racism and ‘womanism’. Being one of the momentous works of American fiction, The Bluest Eye (1970) centralizes a young Afro- American girl named …

Tessie Hutchinson’s scream was drowned by the villagers’ cries and the sound of stones thudding into flesh.  Old Man Warner was shouting: “Be careful, folks! Look where you aim!”  Like  a boy delighted to see a squirming grasshopper overrun by ants, he urged on the villagers, now jostling and squealing …

To the Lighthouse written in 1927 by Virginia Woolf is a perfect example of her experimental style of writing. She uses (overuses) semicolons, dashes, parenthesis to create “stream of consciousness” writing technique that can be found in many of her novels. This approach demonstrates for the reader the randomness of …

In his novel Washington Square, Henry James uses a number of rhetorical and literary devices to employ, develop, and fully elaborate on the characters introduced throughout his novel. Each character is introduced after an interaction with the Sloper family, the activities of which are the main focus of the novel. …

The theme of the presented annual project is Styles and Their Significance of Reading and Analyzing Texts. The actuality of the theme lies in the fact that without reading and analyzing different types of texts the reader cannot understand and penetrate into the world of the writer entirely, the reader …

INTRODUCTION The Prophet’s Hair is a Magical Realistic short story by the famed writer Salman Rushdie. Salman Rushdie is an Author, Novelist, Essayist and sometimes a critic. He is famous for his supreme narrative style where he blends myth and fantasy in a world of reality. This is described as …

A short story, “The Necklace” (“La parure”) by Guy de Maupassant in 1884 and a poem, ‘The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin in 1894 are literary works that are very comparable yet are different. The two women, Madame Mathilde Loisel and Louise Mallard, portrayed in these literary …

            Mention of Quentin Tarantino and one of his films brings to mind immediate and automatic instances of striking ‘uniqueness’ in terms of aesthetics, style and the approach to content and form which he incorporates in many of his movies. Such esoteric tastes are reflected and made evident in pictures …