Laverne & Shirley

Being one of the highest paying professionals, successful actor and hilarious comedian, best known by his real name, Robin Williams, was born on July 21, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois. He developed an unconditional love for his style in a stand-up comedy. He achieved his own T.V. show called Mork and Mindy (1978-1972), and played many important parts, one with with Robert Altman in the film Popeye (1980). He played multiple remarkable movie roles, both comical and sensational. After only three pre-nominations, he won an Academy Award for “best supporting actor” for his critical role in Good Will Hunting (1997). On August 11, 2014, nights after his last appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, the actor was found dead at his home in Tiburon, California at the age of 63. Robin McLaurin Williams, a well-known actor as well as a critically acclaimed comedian, was born on July 21, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois. Eventually becoming one of America's most legendary performers, he attended Claremont Men's College and College of Marin before enrolling at the Juilliard School in New York City. There he befriended and became fellow actor Christopher Reeve’ roomate. Williams later experimented with comedy in San Francisco and Los Angeles, developing a successful stand-up act. Williams had done work on TV programs like The Richard Pryor Show, Laugh-In and Eight Is Enough before becoming more widely known to American audiences as the alien Mork. The character debuted on the series Happy…

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson takes place on June 27th where the villagers are all about to gather around the town square for the lottery. There are children playing, gathering rocks and putting them into a pile. The village consisted of around three-hundred people in this village compared to other villages this one was a lot smaller because it only took this village about a couple of hours to do while others it can take up to days. While the children were the first ones at the square others…

Shirley Jackson 's "the Lottery" is a short story about the faults of tradition, dealing with multiple forms of traditions. Given that the "the Lottery" presents the idea of tradition as superfluous in circumstances regarding social negativity; also given the time period that the short story, "the Lottery" was published--the year of 1949--which is only one year before the second wave of feminism began (from 1950-1970) with these two givens one could assume that one of the traditions that the…

“Young Goodman Brown” and “The Lottery” People face various bizarre events at different time of their life time when they try to imagine something is happening to them whereas it is the real thing happening. In the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne “young Goodman of Brown”, a man named Goodman Brown sets off for wilderness to meet some stranger who has never appeared in his life. The instance that the person is new and they are meeting in the deserted wilderness is more bizarre than many people would…

Ruth is the wife of Walter Lee and has a son named Travis. She works as a laborer in other peoples homes. The play describes her as about thirty. “We can see she was a pretty girl, even exceptionally so, but now it is apparent that life has been little that she expected, and disappointment has already begun to hang in her face” (1293 Hansberry). Throughout the play she talks about how life isn't always what it seems. It seems as if she has given up. She is tired settled woman. When she is…

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and Tiger in the Snow by Daniel Wynn Barber are two short stories with similar themes and genres. Themes such as suspense are used by both authors and are used in various ways by the two authors to engage readers. The plot structure of both of these stories are very similar, with the conventional plot structure up until the falling action and conclusion. Both stories use the same narrative perspective however, the way it engages with the reader is vastly different…

The personality of a character typically reveals how and to what extent they will be able to face a barrier that is placed in front of them. Kind-hearted Paul from the short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, written by D.H. Laurence in 1926, has a level of perseverance to which most readers would never be able to compare. However, this unbreakable focus ultimately leads to his failure of breaking the barrier and to his tragic death. Tessie, an independent thinker from the short story “The…

Shirley Jackson “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson was born December 14,1916 in San Francisco. She grew up in California, where as a young teenager began writing poetry and short stories. She attended college at the University of Rochester and withdrew after a year so she could practice writing. She then attended Syracuse University in 1937, met her husband Stanly Edgar Hyman. Together they started a literary magazine Spectre. After graduation in 1940 they moved to Greenwich Village. Shirley had…

The Lottery With an exciting title like “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, one might have a happy, optimistic outlook on the short story they are about to read. Instead, “The Lottery” is a short story that takes place in a small rural town where one’s luck can change with a representation of a piece of paper. After reading the tale, one might feel like they just read an insert from a Stephen King horror story, but that is not how Jackson begins the journey. Once a year, the town’s people gather…

In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” there are many contradictions between readers that leaves so many unanswered questions and doesn’t have a broad meaning about as to why the author decided to publish such a story. There are many symbolical meanings in the story and plenty of detailed emotions about how the characters are feeling, their gestures, and how they communicate with one another. Jackson’s short story is considered to be one the most loved and hated stories of the 20th…