Short Cuts

The short story “The Palace Thief”, by Ethan Canin, is about William Hundert, a history teacher at St. Benedict’s a prestigious private school, and his interactions with the Bell family. Infact his interactions with the Bells and one of his colleges, develops the central idea that one should not judge a book by it’s cover. This idea is exemplified by the characters Sedgewick Bell, Senator Bell, and Charles Ellerby. Sedgewick Bell, one of Hundert’s most troublesome students, shows that one…

In his short story, “The Black Cat”, Edgar Allan Poe writes about perverseness and how everyone has a choice to determine an outcome. Edgar beings his story in a jail cell, where the narrator tells a story about a black cat and his abuse of alcoholism. The first complication that shows alcoholism taking over the narrator is the scene where he deliberately cut one of its cat's eyes after it nipped his hand. Because of this interaction, the cat feels terrified of the narrator every time he’s…

you find it and how much is in everyone?” Shirley Jackson’s “The Possibility of Evil” and “The Lottery” represent evil in small town USA fluently. Jackson's stories show you cannot trust everyone, and that everything is not what it seems. Both short stories were surrounded by the idea that evil is in every person or in every town. In “The Lottery”, a small town is having a ‘lottery’ in which the town has a sacrifice yearly in hope for their crops to grow in. The town willingly throws rocks…

The short story, “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”, is a story written by W.D. Wetherell about a boy having a crush on the girl next door. The young narrator finally takes the action to ask her to a concert at the carnival. He plans to take her by canoe, since he cannot drive. Sheila does not like fish and he accidently catches one and has to decide to let the bass go or to reel it in. The narrator’s actions in this story, such as the narrator asking her out, advance the plot by…

English Essay The short film genre opens up an increased variety of personal options for the director as they are able to address more troubling topics in reality such as war, which enables the overall message to be transferred to the audience within a limited amount of time. Short films, known for it’s creative freedom, due to lower commercial restrictions, allow the director to make personal choices and express creative ideas in a more effective way given a shorter period of time. This can be…

very vividly done, and scenes that build in tension over time. This is harder to find in short fiction, and limiting the scenes made it possible in this story.…

The author’s purpose of writing this short story is to display the man’s internal conflict between humanity and nature. The author illustrates this by using theme of survival of the fittest. Extending this thought, the author uses different tones of the snake and the human to show how they will do what it takes to survive. When the man abruptly stopped short and noticed the six-foot rattler, he had to make a choice, flee or fight. The customary thing to do would be flea; however the author puts…

Carried” the book is about the Vietnam war and how it affected the lives of the people who went through the war. In the the song “Travelin Soldier” it tells about a soldier going to the Vietnam war and the effect it had on a girl back home. In the short story “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” it is about the American Civil war and what happens to people who are caught during the war.In these three great examples of literature have been chosen represent different wars and how the war had…

indirectly control much of the plot: she is part of the reason that Waythorn invites himself into their lives, since Mrs.Waythorn’s “affection for the child had perhaps been her decisive charm in Waythorn's eyes”; Lily is the reason the honeymoon is cut short, and, therefore, draws Waythorn and her mother back home, and she is the reason that Waythorn and Haskett converge (Wharton, 500). What is even more intriguing than her role, however, is the fact that Lilly’s…

Character Analysis “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. This is a very tension filled story about a man that lives with an old man. The old man makes him very uncomfortable. He doesn’t dislike the old man at all, but he can’t stand his eye that, “resembled that of a vulture,” (Poe 1). The eye made him so uncomfortable that he decided that he would kill the old man. In this story, the man is insane and unreliable. One event from the story that proves this is when he…