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This paper takes a look at four famous short stories by Ernest Hemingway and explains how Hemingway uses the literature elements of character and environment as a means to develop the theme and intent of his stories. To illustrate this point, the short stories "Soldier's Home", "A Clean Well-Lighted Place," "A Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises", are each examined in the paper.

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"At the beginning of "Soldier's Home," the protagonist, Harold Krebs, has just returned from the horror of World War I. Although his friends and associates who also came back from the war much earlier have once again settled into daily life in the small Oklahoma town, Krebs is restless and anxious, unable to readjust to civilian life. His parents cannot understand why he cannot resume a "normal" life--getting a job, getting married, and settling down into traditional middle-American life. The environment, which he cannot accept, stifles him. He cannot fit the mold."

Tags:internal, pain, community, support, systems, religion, tradition, family, values, turmoil

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In this paper, the stories written by Ogot and Jackson provide a sense of cultural tradition that binds and unifies the troubled communities they define. For Shirley, the idea of the lottery is not an altogether honest way to solve unemployment, but it give the members of the community a feeling of hope during rough economic times. In the case of Ogot, she provides an equally impractical and illogical way to solve the lack of rain for the village's crops, yet it is Oganda that is willing sacrifices herself in the belief that she will save her community.

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Tags:shirley, olgot, tradition

Abstract
The paper looks at two fictional short stories and compares the way each story looks at society and life. The paper contrasts "The Lottery," which consists of a micro observation about rituals and traditions with "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," which is a macro or an overall view about life itself. The paper compares the presentation of each story and notes that both stories begin with a tone of gaiety and festivity but take a sadistic turn ending on a sad note. The paper also examines the similarities in theme in both stories, where both are concentrating on societal issues, its structure and practices.

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"Shirley Jackson's Lottery is comparable to Ursula Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas in that the societies in both the stories are functioning on an assumption, a practice that has not been challenged. The only difference is that in the former, the setting is a small town whereas in the latter, the story is set in a city. In The Lottery, the practice is to sacrifice a family in order to guarantee prosperity for the surviving village. The people in this town believe that if they will offer a human sacrifice, they will get a good crop. Since crop symbolizes livelihood for the town people, they believe that a good crop will bring prosperity for the whole town. Similarly, in The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, the society believes that in order for the entire city to be happy and prosperous, they ought to sacrifice one child."

Tags:literature, utopia, appearance, brutality

Abstract
The writer explains that there was a lottery in a village, in which one person would win the lottery and get stoned to death. The villagers believed that doing this would save their village from ruin. The writer discusses whether the lottery could have been stopped if people had spoken up about how they felt about it, and whether many of the villagers even questioned its legitimacy. The paper explains how tradition played a vital role in the village, and how it plays a vital role in our society too. In conclusion, the writer comments that there must be knowledge about the traditions and rituals that are passed down to the younger generations so that their meaning is not distorted.

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"It is a story about a small village that participates in a yearly "lottery". It was published June 28, 1948 in an issue of the New Yorker Magazine. This gripping story with a surprise ending was cause for Jackson to receive letters about it until the time of her death in 1965. Many people have spent years trying to figure out the underlying meaning of this story. The purpose Shirley Jackson was trying to portray in this story is that traditions are continuously passed down even though the true meaning of why they are done is lost, but because they are a source of bringing communities together they continue, even if people get hurt."

Tags:continuity, stoning, new, yorker, magazine

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This paper examines three short stories by Stephen Crane, with an eye towards revealing how each one represents the finest in the American realist tradition. The paper analyzes "The Blue Hotel," "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" and "The Open Boat." Through the three texts and his characters, the paper discusses how Crane shows human heroism in a time of crisis.

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"The speech, just like the dialogue of the previous story, is undeniably salty, undeniably the speech of ordinary men with rough edges. For instance, as Johnnie grows exasperated by the agitated Swede, he finally says, "Kill you? Man you're off your nut" (Crane, 14). A little later, as a perplexed Scully tries to confer with the frantic Swede, he refers to "illictric" street cars instead of "electric" street cars while detailing what the future holds in store for Fort Romper. Later, of course, we learn that Fort Romper is in "Nebrasker" and far removed from any wild gun fights that might be troubling the Swede (Crane, 16). In the end, the Swede does die, just as he foretold all who would listen and we discover that the sullen men around him could have stopped it (Crane, 16)."

Tags:characters, plot, commodore, heroism

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This paper discusses how the idea of the danger of the traditionally romanticized artistic process, of artist living apart from the world in enslavement to the muse, runs through many of Cather?s short stories. It looks at how, in three of her short works, a protagonist whose intellect or ability distances him from society has a featured role, whether it be academic, as in ?The Muse,? or the power of portraiture, as in ?The Portrait?, or knowledge of art, as in ?The Namesake?. It also shows, however, her 1905 short story, ?Paul?s Case: A Study in Temperament?, does exactly the opposite and looks at how, rather than sympathize with the young man, Cather portrays him as a self-fixated, indulgent individual more interested in the luxurious and false trappings of art than the true hard work of creating real art.

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"The subtitle of "Paul's Case" is "a study in temperament" because this enables Cather as an author to diagnose the young man's aspirations like a doctor rather than idealizing his yearnings for beauty. In fact, Cather once contemplated becoming a doctor herself, before turning to writing after being educated in the decidedly non-Eastern, non-urban local of The University of Nebraska. (Ahern, 2003) The idea of Paul as a medical "case" also suggests that he is a psychological case study of something gone wrong, a warning rather than an object of pity, much less identification in the mind of the reader."

Tags:paul, portrait, namesake, temprement, muse

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This paper discusses whether Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery", is aptly named. The paper first outlines the story and discusses how it shows the vulnerability of people and how they react when it is their life on the line instead of the life of someone else. The paper then relates that, in "The Lottery", life is a gamble, and no one knows from year to year whether he/she will be the one who is selected or whether it will be someone else. The people live with that fear, but they seem to block it out, just like people in the rest of society block out the dangers that they face. Thus, the paper concludes that, overall, "The Lottery" is an appropriate title for the story and for the rest of society, as well.

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"When most people begin to read Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, they really do not have a clear understanding of why she chose that particular title. They associate the lottery with winning large sums of money from a scratch-off ticket or some other type of prize drawing. The lottery that Jackson describes, though, is much more important - and much more sinister - than the assumption that individuals usually have. The story seems to be upbeat and friendly all the way up to the few ending lines. The beginning of it, "the morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green" hardly makes a person think that anything will ever go wrong in the little utopian society that Jackson seems to have created."

Tags:tradition, vulnerability, cruelty

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This paper provides a discussion of the elements of Southwest humor in Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." The discussion maintains Twain uses these elements to comment on the inherent gullibility of the common man. The paper includes an brief look at the plot and themes in the story.

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" Kenneth Lynn is one of the most significant critics of Southwest humor, responsible for the argument that Southwest humorists opened and closed their tales with a gentleman narrator, one whose apparent moral and intellectual superiority stood in opposition to the dangerous ignorance of their tales' backwoods characters. In Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" the reader is presented with such a gentleman narrator who repeats an oral tale."

Tags:Reconstruction, antebellum, Twain, chicanery, irony, satire, tall tales, oral tradition

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The paper offers an analysis of Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery." The paper discusses the meaning of the characters' names and examines how they impart irony and foreshadow the ending of the story in ways that add impact to its shock.

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"Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" revolves around an annual rural town lottery wherein the winner is stoned to death by the other town members. Jackson uses a variety of techniques to ease us into this shock ending including opening her story in a pastoral and peaceful tone to ease us into the horrifying shock at the end of the story."

Tags:death, community, change, tradition, irony, foreshadow, pastoral

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This analysis of William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" provides a detailed feminist critique of the way that the patriarchal social forces that are responsible for Miss Emily's oppression, conspire to motivate her to murder Homer Barron so she can love a northern laborer despite society's values in opposition to their love.

Tags:gender roles, behavior, expression, old south, tradition, homosexuality, patriarchy