Short Story Essays

The story begins with a dying tribe called the Mohicans in which three men are left from the tribe. During the conquest period of the United States in the 18th century, French and English soldiers came into battle that forced the native American to choose one party. These three men …

 “The Three Day Blow” is a dramatic story. Though it’s a story, we find certain elements of a drama. The story itself is not so grand. It’s simply a story of two friends – Nick and Bill. Once, in a blow, Nick came to Bill’s house to meet him. Bill’s …

In “Good Country People,” Flannery O’Connor uses symbolism in the choice of names, almost to the point of being ironic and humorous. These names center around the personality and demeanor of the characters. Hulga, once known as Joy, simply changed her name because it was the ugliest she could come …

The story is about the life of Victor, an eight year old boy whose father was involved in a company menace because of unjust salaries and compensations. His father joined the employee’s strike and there he met his death when he was shot by the police officers managing the chaos …

Every youth should see at least see one of the many renditions of the J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.  Plays, movies and animated shows tried to depict the closest interpretation of the author. Some might not have been as good as it was expected, but there are definitely good ones. In …

            A struggle between spiritual faith and evil temptation comprises a central theme in Hawthorne’s literary works. From his famous story, “Young Goodman Brown,” to his most-famous novel “The Scarlet Letter” a struggle between good and evil is represented allegorically by Hawthorne by way of a carefully crafted symbolism, character …

In Louise Erdrich’s The Red Convertible, Henry and Lyman, the two main characters, begin in the story as happy-go-lucky young men. However, they both experience some significant changes in their lives that change their outlook and replaces their innocence with maturity, and disillusionment. The changes are particularly drastic for Henry, …

            The story tells of five blind men who encountered an elephant on their way. Each of them had their own opinions on what the elephant resembles. The first man says that the elephant was just like a wall. The second thought it felt like a pillar. The third indicates …

Queen Esther in the Old Testament is the Queen of Ahasuerus. Historians will identify this group of people alongside Xerxes I an Xerxes II. She is the heroine of one of the books in the bible – Book of Esther. This is clearly named after her. Esther’s best contribution was …

Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a bittersweet story that presents theoretical answers to two of life’s biggest questions:  What happens to us when we die, and, for lack of better words, why does stuff happen?  The story follows the death (and recaps the life) of …