Short Story Essays

“Half A Day” by Naguib Mahfouz is an allegoric short story about the different stages of life. He talks about the different stages of life through his first day at school and how they relate to your entire life. He makes the story very slow at the beginning but towards …

Dagoberto Gilb’s “Love in L.A.” is a love story that is set on a freeway in Las Angeles. Now this is an unusual setting for a love story, however, “Love in L.A.” is a different kind of love story. The story opens up with Jake, a careless and irresponsible guy …

Short stories are fiction stories. Fiction is writing of imagined events and characters. Great short stories combine 5 key elements, which combine to create the story and to support a theme. These elements are plot, imagery, setting, point of view, and characters. For example I will use the short story …

It isn’t how we look up close so much as in dreams. Our giant is not so tall, our lizard boy merely flaunts crusty skin- not his fault they keep him in a crate and bathe him maybe once a week. When folks scream or clutch their hair and poke …

Using a subtle blend of aspects borrowed from sequential and storybook art, The Arrival is a graphic novel which explores the journey of a migrant. The experiences are conveyed through illustrations that, through the monochromatic sepia color palette, crinkled texture and page layout, resemble old memories and photographs; lending the …

The story is an example of situational irony because an event occurs that changes the expectations of the story. For example, Juan went from trying to outsmart the government by working for them to becoming a dedicated censor. Juan becomes so obsessed with trying to be a perfect censor that …

“Rules of the Game” written by Amy Tan is a short story that focuses on the conflict in identity that Chinese Americans face when growing up with influences from both the cultures. The physical and social settings of “Rules of the Game” create an atmosphere which helps to bring out …

The story “An Ounce of Cure” written by Alice Munro is a story about a typical teenage girl who fell in love, enjoyed it, and later broken up. She ended up making a terrible mistake due to her miserable condition suffered from the “broke up”; and she had to pay …

In the short story “The Sniper” and “The Fan Club”, they both share one common Theme. The Theme would be choosing one target to eliminate them from The Literary Work for “The Sniper” and “The Fan Club” Compared and contrasted their mission or their checklist. Both the short stories have …

The mood of this story is that the main character Emily’s life was a sad and depressed life. It makes you feel sorry for Ms. Emily that her father kept her sheltered all of her life until he died. Then after he died she was not really able to find …