lived near and most likely traveled the exact route that “the man” in the story had traveled. It is on record of a nearby claim that he filed for in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada on November, 5, 1897. A group of men set out to find his friend’s cabin that he was rumored to have stayed during his time in the Klondike. During their search for the cabin they hiked a path eerily similar to the one describe in the short story. The cabin was verified by experts to be the one Jack London
Glaspell’s grandparents were among the first settlers in Davenport. Glaspell grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about life as an early settler on lands still inhabited by Indians. Glaspell admits that she was influenced predominately by the women in her childhood, rather than the men. An Influence that undoubtedly helps shape Glaspell’s writing and strong advocating
Trifles tells a short story. Not only was her play, “A Jury of Her Peers” adapted from the production several months after its amazing opening debut, but it was known all over. The play was executed by Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown in Massachusetts on August eight, 1916. The play Trifles was a very inspirational play that involved important themes, a lot of symbols, and essential setting points. The sheriff Henry Peters and the area lawyer George Henderson, land with the
The short story “To Build a Fire” written by Jack London is a tale of an unnamed man’s quest through the rough and rugged tundra of the Yukon on his way to Henderson Creek where he is to meet up with the “boys”. It is assumed that they are in search of gold but their intended purpose in the Yukon is never mentioned in the story. The weather is very frigid in the Yukon and the temperature is reported to be 75 below zero. The man is advised not to travel alone in these conditions by a native elder
A Jury of Her Peers is a short story by Susan Glaspell that focuses on the interaction of men and women and how badly women were treated in the 19th century. The story revolves around the murder mystery of John Wright in his own house. George Henderson, the district attorney, Lewis Hale with his wife Martha Hale, a couple whom were close neighbors to the Wrights, and Henry Peters, the sheriff, with his wife, Mrs. Peters. While the three men look for evidence to incriminate Minnie Wright, the wife
the harsh environment), or philosophical fiction (the intention of socialism throughout the novel). Muckraking was also used throughout the piece, along with satire. “Uneasy middle-class Americans applauded muckrakers for telling these types of stories and became interested in reform. Progressivism crystallized around the abuses that muckrakers exposed.” (Norton, 480). Sinclair wanted to put socialism in a good light, and hopefully convert his audience into the political movement of socialism. Socialists
as his most successful commercial work, though he also authored several other novels and short stories in the same genre. It tells the story of a fantastical shape-shifting creature (at times a gender-ambiguous human, and at other times, a beetle) who stalks a popular politician in Victorian society. The Beetle is very much a novel of its time. Marsh employs several different characters to tell his story, and the changing perspectives (it is told from the point of view of four different narrators)
Arun Joshi is a novelist who, more strongly than most, has brought to his work that detachment from the everyday, while still acknowledging its existence, which is perhaps india's particular gift to the literature of the world. The rising up into the transcendental is a trait that has increasingly marked out his novels from his first, the foreigner—where the young hero, after experiencing life and love in America, is, back in Delhi, at last persuaded by a humble office worker that sometimes detachment
Charlie Company state that they had seen little of the war in those first three months, and the people they met were friendly and welcoming to soldiers that played with their children and treated them with kindness. After suffering heavy losses in a short period of time, they viewed Vietnam in a new light, seeing the villagers as possible threats, a view that aided them in the eventual massacre. Charlie Company was in pursuit of the remnants of the 48th NLF Battalion, which they believed had fled into
Assignment 1 The play, Tea Party, written by Betty Keller is an incredible story of two lonely elderly women. The reader is given a detailed account of how Alma and Hester prepare for the arrival of the paper boy; it is his day to collect the money for their monthly subscription. This drama is very short, but has a powerful impact on the audience, and gives explicit details of the loneliness of the two sisters. The preparations they make are very detailed as they wait in hope the paper boy will come