Short Story Essays

Paragraph 1 The process of dough making in third paragraph on page 137 symbolically conveys the process of nurturing one’s own sibling and shaping his/her personality. Sardarni makes a dough-ball and shapes it more rounds by patting it. She then set aside small dough-ball out of the large one and …

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin both contain similar concepts – that the sacrifice of one for the benefit of the many is justified.  Normally, this concept is referred to as the theory of the scapegoat which is …

Prompt: 1 “The Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad reflects the themes of isolation, disillusion and death representing his real life experiences. The description of the lagoon and the life on the seas clearly reflects Conrad’s real life experiences as a sailor and his passion for an adventurous life. The isolation he …

          Sometimes a big story which consists of many volumes is completely clear to the reader. Despite of its considerable volume it is destinated to the only thesis statement and all the events and relationships of the story are presented by the author in order to prove and hilghlight this …

            Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier is a story of a wounded Confederate soldier, W. P. Inman, on his journey home to the mountains and to his love, Ada Monroe. This novel is believed to be partly based on the author’s great-great-grandfather’s own experiences as a Confederate soldier as stated …

     Jack London was born in the late 1876, and he had written the essay, “What Life Means To Me” in the year 1905, when he was still about 29 years old— a testimony that the man had indeed endured much in his life, but also gained not just knowledge …

This short story starts with a concise account about the hidden past of Desiree. For years, Desiree’s parents, Monsieur and Madame Valmondé who were among the few wealthy Creoles in Louisiana, managed to keep the painful secret from her that she was not their biological daughter. The childless affluent Valmondé …

            “Put your faith in your sword, and your sword in a pole.” This is one of the striking words the main character named Taras Bulba was known in this self-titled movie. Its story revolved between the conflicts of the Poles against the Cossacks. The poles deceived the Cossacks by …

            As the tired father sat at the table, he tipped his cup up and finished the bit of whiskey that was left. His long, hard day working in the field showed upon the rough lines in his skin. Upon seeing the young boy, those very lines wrinkled around his …

            The Decameron, a collection of 100 short stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. The allegorical work is best known for tales of love in all its forms from erotic to tragic. The book is formed as a story-telling session by ten young Florentines who banded together to escape the …