Irony: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected results. Huh? Well take the short story "Lady with a Dog" written by Anton Chekhov as an...
Alienation: The Fall of Man through the Breaking of Moral Law
Is it possible to attain or remain in a state of true happiness when you break a moral law? To many of us, road...
Change is Memorable
When readers read a book that they like, they will remember at least one character in the book for some specific reason. Authors have many different wa...
An old lady is sitting in a lounge in a home for the elderly, totally withdrawn into herself, she has no friends and no relatives to visit her or keep her company. She has g...
Mystery in the Short Story
The term short story can be a bit deceiving. The idea of a short story seems that it may be lacking something, that some of the essential elemen...
Abstract
This paper theorizes the prevailing social environment that each character lives in leads to their transition from being resolute to irresolute individuals determine...
A consistent theme of mine is how critically important it is for us to have a foundational understanding about what Christianity is about. Most of us who have been in the chur...
"The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction"
These stories are about people who struggle with life in their own different ways.
In the story "Where I'm Calling From" a m...
In the play “Macbeth” there seemed to be plenty of strong characters. Who is the stronger character Macbeth or Lady Macbeth? I view Macbeth to be the stronger...
Lois Lowry is known for her famous style of creating fictional, dystopian worlds. But in Gossamer, she sets that genre aside but still includes fantasy in this story. This is...