Short Story Essays

Fear, terror and suspense are the most vivid emotions created by Poe’s stories and by Hitchcock’s films. Several themes are common to both: the madness that exists in the world, the paranoia caused by isolation which guides people’s actions, the conflict between appearance and reality along with the double aspect …

Satire means irony. People use satire to expose folly or vice. Interestingly, in Voltaire’s Candide and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, they both use satire to express their profound observations. They have some similarities; such as they both criticize the human weakness. They also have many differences between them. In “Candide”, Voltarie …

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a classic piece wherein pilgrims tell tales during their journey to a holy shrine in Canterbury. A Knight and Miller are two of the pilgrims. Chaucer gives personality to each character wherein a drunken Miller can tell a tale that is full of …

When two daughters are raised alike yet live differently, there is a fine line of distinction between the traits and aspirations of the two, as Alice Walker drew portraits of three women in a family in “Everyday Use”. Maggie Johnson was the youngest of the two daughters, and her older …

Laura Hillenbrand’s “Unbroken” is about Louie Zamperini’s life story. Growing up,  Louie was a very mischievous boy.  He was constantly on the edge of being put into a juvenile  detention or jail.  Luckily, a police officer recommended sports and Louie found his passion for  running.  Once Louie realized how great …

Lone Survivor is a book based on a true story. The story begins in the year 2005, just a few years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City. In this book, Marcus Luttrell, the co-author and main character of Lone Survivor, tells us of his horrific experience on …

“Good People”, written by David Foster Wallace, and published in the February 2007 issue of The New Yorker magazine is a story about two young Christians who are faced with the issue of an unplanned pregnancy. The critic reviewing this short story is Matt Bucher. He takes a psychological/philosophical approach …

The two stories that will be examined in this essay are two that may not appear to have a great deal in common, but once we look deeper in to the stories it becomes clear that they are similar but still have their own identities, finding strong differences and similarities …

1: Write a summary of ”The Right Passengers” in about 150 words. The Right passengers, is about a man named Nadeem Riaz he is a Pakistani, whom is a taxi driver in USA. One day Nadeem Riaz picks up a young Pakistani named Faisal and a white girl. Faisal and …

Jeannette Walls, the author of the novel The Glass Castle wrote the novel based on her life, specifically her childhood. A memoir of how her life could be so down-the-drain; yet she becomes successful in a writing career. Normally the child would grow up to be an exact duplicate of …