Short Cuts

craving more. For example, in Good Country People, a fat, disabled, nihilistic woman named Hulga is seduced by a bible salesman, who then promptly steals her prosthetic leg. The whole short story revolves around how Hulga has no trust in anybody. However, when she meets the bible salesman, Manley…

Reading shorts stories lots of facts can be found throughout the story. Short Story give you facts and information just like novels but they are a lot shorter than regular novels. The author who wrote short story are KAP,Wi and NH. They all write similar stories they also have a lot of differences to it as well. They all have different ways they like to describe their characters as well and describing their setting and other literary devices and which I will be talking about. The paper that I’m…

“reflected” by remembering that there are “children, dogs, [and] horses at the ranch.” The man was not obliged to kill the reptile because he has a huge respect for nature. He thought of the lives back home that needs protection from danger. The man didn’t “cut off the rattles,” and instead put them in “guardianship of the bush.” This exemplifies the protagonists remorse. He feels sorry for killing the snake, so he made sure that all of the snake's remains are guarded by the desert bush. The…

Many of William Faulkner’s works may be catagorized under the Southern Gothic genre. In this essay, I will explore and prove that the novel “A Light in August” and the short story “A Rose for Emily” are indeed, Southern Gothic writings. Characteristics of Southern Gothic writings are presented in these stories by Faulkner’s use of the lurid murders of Joe Christmas and Joanna Burden in “A Light in August”, and Homer Barron in “A Rose for Emily”, we also see disillusioned and reclused…

that communication is key to cooperation and in order to be able to communicate properly one must use their language accordingly to voice their thoughts and ideas to others. In the short, science fiction story "Speech Sounds" by Octavia Butler, speech is absent in a society causing disorder amongst the citizens. The short story makes many connections with society and people today in terms of lack of responsiveness and feelings of indifference to others. But while the story directs a loss of…

The door opens slowly and a strange creature comes through the door. The creature looked like a overgrown hamster with long hair and sharp teeth. It had short fat legs with a swirly tail. The friends are even more scared as the strange creature waddles with its fat legs over to the group of friends . At first, the creature does nothing, but then rolls over onto its back. The friends, still frightened, wonder what the strange creature is doing. Then one of the friends realizes that the creature…

Showalter/Varley DE English 112 07 March 2016 Sherman Alexie’s “Indian Education” The short story “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie, contains multiple examples of racism and discrimination Victor faced over the course of his lifetime. Sherman Alexie uses the literary element of point of view to suggest Victor’s experiences of racism and discrimination growing up both on and away from the Indian reservation. The short story “Indian Education” is narrated by the author through first…

The character I chose is Galina "Red" Reznikov from the T.V show "Orange is the New Black". In the show, Red is the head chef of a prison, and takes great pride in her work. She is feared and respected by majority of the prisoners. She has short red hair, due to which she got her nickname everybody knows her for. She is also usually seen wearing red lipstick, gold earrings, and her white chef's outfit. Red is shown as very cold and intense on the outside. She likes taking charge of situations…

In the short story ‘Sorry for the Loss’ by Bridget Keehan, we spectate the meeting between the chaplain Evie and the inmate Victor Zamora, whose grandmother recently passed away. The main character of the story is Evie, a catholic minister. She has been working in a prison for five years, even though she is not very comfortable with the environment of the prison. For the first time in her life, Evie has to announce a death notice to a prisoner called Victor. Victor’s grandmother died, so Evie…

Scream Factory's new Blu-ray. No, the reason to pick it up is the Mystery Science Theater 3000 special feature, which goes through the entire movie and is a blast to sit through. Read on to see whether one feature alone is worth the price of admission (short answer: it is)...…