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Coming of age is a time that everyone goes through Teens are constantly changing like the weather. Many teens can struggle during this time but what results from these changes can be a better more mature adult. The changes that come with coming of age can affect someone’s entire future In the story “Marigolds”, Collier…

Theme plays a very important role in the development of the short story titled “Lust” by Susan Minot. “Lust” is set in the 1960’s and early 1970’s when young women began experimenting with their personal freedoms. Unlike many authors, Minot does not give the main character, who is also the narrator a name or a…

The scenario in round one has to do with me making one of two choices that determines whether I live or die. I have been chosen to go on a very vital mission that happens to take place on Mars. Painfully, I have no power of choice in deciding whether to go on this mission…

My belief on marriage is that it’s a covenant between two people who absolutely love each other and couldn’t imagine life without sharing their sacred union. Although this belief is pretty common, unfortunately it’s not always the case and people for a variety of other reasons get married and often feel imprisoned. In the short…

In the story, “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson tells us a heartbreaking story of a town that murders someone every year as a tradition their village holds. Jackson argues that tradition should not be followed blindly and that blindly following it can lead to the murder of innocent people. She argues this by showing us the…

Short stories are a very good way of letting an author express a message and tell a story through a short span of time. “The Necklace” and “The Gift of the Magi” are very good examples of this. They use many effective literary terms and narrative techniques to do this. “The Necklace” is a story…

Introduction Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a story that explores the theme of guilt narrated by an unnamed narrator. The story started with the unnamed narrator claiming that he is not insane, and offers a story as proof. In that story, the initial situation is the narrator’s decision to kill the old man…

In his short story, The Signal Man, Charles Dickens creates an interaction between people and supernatural beings in real situations to depict concerns on the interconnectedness between people. The Signal Man is a short pessimistic story with a sad ending. In the story, a ghostly phantasm is either belatedly informing or warning a watcher who…

The French novelist, Guy de Maupassant wrote his notorious story The Necklace 1884. His remarkable story. Alternatively, the American memoirist Maya Angelou wrote her influential poem Still I Rise in 1978. Guy de Maupassant was an extraordinary writer, whose short stories dealt with many diverse themes, involving things such as wars and religions. His stories…

Yes, everyone suffers, it is an inevitable pain that all people must face at some point in their life. It is a pain in which everybody experiences, and of which everyone has their own unique way of coping. However, the question is not whether we suffer, rather, it is do we let the suffering devour…