Short Story Essay Examples

James Joyce in his collection of short stories entitled “Dubliners” draws the episodes from Irish life; exposition in this picture plays a particularly important role, as it is directly associated with plot in each short story. The present paper discusses exposition in “Araby” and “Eveline”. The exposition in “Arabi” depicts the atmosphere, in which the […]

Miguel Street has been variously classified as a group of short stories, as a series of sketches, and as a novel. The latter classification is supported by the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. Furthermore, although each chapter is dominated by a single character, those major […]

The short story focuses on Filipino conventions during the wake of loved ones. It’s also a twist of Filipino stereotypes regarding social conventions such as the ‘kabit’ or the second wife/mistress, as compared to the first wife. The story is narrated in a somewhat unbiased, childlike tone but it’s actually flavored with insight and implicit […]

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories were set within 19th century Europe. He used witty depictions of various rumored tales and stories that vaguely resembled occurrences during his eventful life, “The setting is European, set in some indeterminate past, so as not to get too close to depicting Poe’s own enemies. ” (Murphy) Poe wrote ‘The Cask […]

“How My Brother Noel Brought Home a Wife” is a short story written by Manuel Arguilla. It won first prize in the Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940. Manuel Estabillo Arguilla (1911-1944) was an Ilokano writer in English. He is known for his popular short story “How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife,” which won […]

All of us are created with a special purpose in this world. We are not created just to increase the population, but we are created to know our special purpose and to help make this world a better place. All of us are gifted with different latent skills, it’s just up to us on how […]

The song “One,” by Metallica is narrated by the lead singer, James. It is a very strong and hard hitting song. The song deals with the pain of war. It is told in first person and really gives a strong idea of what has happened. This song is very straight forward. The character was in […]

Analysis of the short story “The Escape” by William Somerset Maugham. I`d like to reflect upon the short-story under the title «The Escape”, written by one of the best known English writers of 20th century – William Somerset Maugham. He was not only a short-story writer, but also one of the most successful dramatists and […]

Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary was born in 1951 at a middle class family where his father’s work is breeding cow business while his mother is just a housewife. His higher education is only until form 5 because he can’t afford to further his studies at that time. He started help his father’s business by keeping and […]

I found the movie “Nine Queens” to be one interesting movie in which in order to understand each scene you had to be able to pay attention to detail. Both characters Marcos and Juan teamed up perfectly and used their instincts in performing small crimes. They eventually got their big break and had the opportunity […]

When we talk about the “theme of survival” in literature, we should not forget the contribution of Margaret Atwood to the Canadian identity. Margaret Atwood had written a literary criticism book named ‘Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature’. According to her theories, Margaret Atwood considers Canadian Literature as the expression of Canadian identity. According […]

The story is about a girl named Clara, who one day decides to take of all her clothes in school assembly hall. It was already planet from the morning, since she didn’t have any underwear on when she went to school. After she had taken of her clothes, she went up in a physics classroom, […]

The journey of moving from childhood to adult hood and the experiences that affect a person’s level of innocence include many difficult eye-opening and often uncomfortable situations. In her story, “A White Heron,” by Sarah Jewett, a young nine-year-old girl leaves her large family in the city to live on a farm in the woods […]

Among the first things one is taught when learning how to write novels, short stories or even essays are effective titles. Although instructed not to judge a book by its cover or title, most people will admit to doing so. A title needs to be luring, meaningful and perhaps both metaphoric and literal, or one […]

In Jhumpa Lahiri’s “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine,” she explores the theme of being a strange in a foreign land, even showing that those who call a land home can feel disconnected at times as well. For Mr. Pirzada, America is a great big mystery to him. Many of the cultural practices described throughout […]

Edgar Allan Poe was labeled as one of America’s major writers (Encyclopedia of World Biography). He wrote poetry, fiction, poetry, criticism and he was a magazine editor (Encyclopedia of World Biography). He was best known as an editor and critic; his short stories didn’t have that big of an audience (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Most […]

When assigned to read the short stories in class to summarize and learn to paraphrase, there was one story in particular that emotionally touched me. This short story was “And of Clay Are We Created” by Isabell Allende. I found many great points that could be discussed about the story, and that is why I […]

Phillip K Dick was the author of over one hundred short stories in his lifetime focusing primarily on questions surrounding personal identity. His stories often featured references to an authoritarian government and are delivered with a definitive feeling of paranoia. 1 As a short story writer his work was true to the style, making use […]

For our AS course work we were given the task of creating a short story for a target audience of our choice. The short story that I have decided to write is aimed at younger children, more specifically children within the region of five to eight years old. Having a younger brother myself, who is […]

The three stories that I will study are; The poor relations story by Charles Dickens, Twenty six men and a girl by Maxim Gorky and The unexpected by Kate Chopin. The three things do seem to have a thing in present. All the main characters seem to be pressured or are being victimised by their […]

While driving along the road in Changi, my parents and I noticed a group of people walking outside Changi prison, each one clutching a yellow ribbon. Curiosity prompted me to inquire about their purpose. My father informed me that it was part of the Yellow Ribbon project, which aims to assist recently released ex-convicts. Frequently, […]

With tumbling, lice-ridden matted hair, the ringleader in his late 20’s, stands with his face turned insolently towards the police. He raises his right arm in defiance with the middle finger pointed upwards in an obscene gesture. Disdainfully and scornfully he hurls abusive language at the armed anti-riot police officers on the other side of […]