you slice it” (Atwood 515). Presented within this story is the theme of how plots are hypothesized as a continuation of the story, “a what and a what and a what” (Atwood 515), but the important part is the stretch in-between. Although there are six different scenarios in this short story, they all have the same conclusion: John and Mary die. In “Happy Endings” Atwood argues that the main components of the plot are character underdevelopment, love vs. desire, and the looping back to Scenario A. In
Descriptive writing creates a vivid picture using words. After surveying through the American authors from the Early American Colonial Period as well as the Romantic period that I studied during this course I decided to choose from the American Romanticism. The author that is the master of description is Edgar Allan Poe because he uses descriptive language, imagery, and the unity of effect. His style of work contains gothic elements of mysterious settings and surreal situations. Poe captures the
is to analyze the process of adapting the short story “Supertoys last all summer long” written by the British author Brain Aldiss into a full length movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence directed by Steven Spielberg. We have three types of adaptation loose, faithful and literal adaptation. The procces of adapting the short story “Supertoys last all summer long” is a loose adaptaion. In a loose adaptation, the director tend to use only the idea of the story, situations or characters to make the movie
In the short story and movie of The Fall of The House of Usher portray similarities but also differences that I liked and disliked. In the story and movie they both portrayed how creepy and eerie looking the mansion was, from the cracks in house to each individual bricks. As well as the dead vegetation, black tarn and fog surrounding the house. Just like in the story, the movie portrayed how Madeline and Roderick are confined to the mansion. In the movie whenever Phillip would mention that he was
points of the two short stories I read in my English Lit and Comp class. Two men who come from families with a long history of rivalry amongst each other have to work together in order to try and get out of their fatal condition. While we also have a woman with critical health issues and doesn't have a loving passion with her husband. These two stories sound to most about very different topics, and that they are but I will show you the comparative and contrasting points from each story. Starting with
and international literature. His stories made him known as one of the inventors of detective fiction and horror. His great use of imagery, diction and symbolism make The Fall of the House of Usher a captivating short story. Poe’s usual style of writing is about death and fear, however, in this short story he shows the importance of relationships, and how dangerous isolation is from the rest of society by using imagery, diction and symbolism. In this short story, Poe shows the importance of relationships
In the two short stories, “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker the two families approach family conflict and have tension with each other. Each family has its own patterns of relating to each other and they have their own structure in their family. The beliefs of the families in these two stories are challenged and reshaped throughout the story. In the short story “Everyday Use” Dee has been away for college and hasn't been home in a couple of years, but unexpectedly Mamma
In life there is love but when it goes too far or is not reciprocated there is infatuation. Unlike love infatuation is usually one sided with nothing being reciprocated. Infatuation arises as a theme in the short stories A&P and Araby. A&P, by John Updike, tells the story of a 19 teen-year-old boy working at A&P when one day three girls walk in. They are scantily clad, after just coming from the beach, and are noticed by everyone in the story especially the teen who becomes infatuated over one
The very short story, “The Betrayal” explores what happens when a person loses their morality. We read about a man and woman that are consumed with their love for one another, and wish to conceive a child to make their love flesh and blood. They love and nurture their son; they teach him to love others, and encourage him to go out into the world and rebuild “cities destroyed by violence and oppression” (Tadjo 866). The son, having been raised in such a happy and optimistic environment goes out into
Setting Makes the Story Scarier (The discussion of the importance of setting in “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe) Ever since children are young, the importance of setting is drilled into their heads. Which means that the state must find it important enough that we start learning it as soon as we are able to understand the stories being read. Therefore, it is clear that setting is always of the essence, but is it more important within different genres? In a sweet little poem about