...Analysis of a short story I. SETTING 1. One or two sentences to summarize. 2. Where and when. Provide relevant background information. II. CHARACTERS (Choose one main character) 1. Tell the role he/she plays 2. Describe the characters 3. What methods of characterization were used to help you to understand the character? Explain. 4. In what way if any, does the character change by the end of the story? 5. How do you feel about the character? Why? III. CONFLICT and PLOT 1. What kind of conflict is present? 2. Describe the scene that expresses the major conflict and show how it leads to further complication. 3. Describe the scene that involves the climax and shows how it leads to the resolution of the conflict. 4 Tell how the story ends. IV. THEME 1. Give the author’s message 2. How does the theme apply to people in general? 3. How does the theme apply to your personality? V. YOUR OPINION 1. Tell whether or not you liked the story, and why. 2. How did the story reinforce or change any attitude an opinion you may have had? 3. Would you recommend the story to others? Why or why not? I. SETTING 1. The story happened at the mountain where Awiyao, Lumnay and the rest of their tribes live. 2. The upper horizontal log which served as the edge of the head high threshold. At the mountains. II. CHARACTERS (Choose one main character) LUMNAY 1. She is the ex-wife of Awiyao. A wife of Awiyao within seven harvest periods yet that can’t bear a child. 2. Lumnay...
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...Love Story Hi, my name is Mya and I am from a little town in Drums, PA. My mother and I moved to Pittsburgh, PA. to live a city life. I started a new high school called Central Catholic. I met a girl name Moriah, and we clicked right away. We were different from everybody else. Moriah was the only person who understands me. We joined this gothic group and became friends with Mike. The three of us were the best of friends. We did everything together and told each other everything. As we got closer, I started to develop a crush on Mike. I didn’t tell anybody because I didn’t want to mess up our friendship. Mike had a girlfriend, but I didn’t care. As we got closer, he started to notice that I had feelings for him. Mike and his girlfriend had taken a break. That was my moment to make my move. Mike and I were officially dating. Moriah, Mike, and I were still the best of friends and still did everything together until Mike and his ex-girlfriend’s break was over, and they got back together. Mike didn’t even tell me; I had to find out myself. I was hurt and I would do anything to get back with Mike. I couldn’t stop thinking about him. I even made a love note for him to let him know how much that I loved him. “ The first time I met you, I thought we were just best friends’, until my feelings grew stronger. I never thought I would like you, but now I think of you everyday. When you make me smile I want to leave everything behind and stay with you. I fell in love, but...
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...A LOVE STORY: LOVE FOR GOD & LOVE FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN!!!! The Bible tells us that ‘God is love’. (1 John 4:16). So it is fair to read that great passage in 1 Corinthians 13 in the light of how God’s love is expressed to us. 1 Cor 13:4-8 ‘ God’s love is patient, God’s love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, God’s love keeps no record of wrongs. God’s love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. God’s love never fails. Now, why is this all so important? Well, it’s because our understanding and experience of God’s love plays a huge part in our love, acceptance, and relationships with other people. For we tend to treat others as we think God treats us. So understanding God’s love for you is not an end in and of itself. The end is that you may share that love with others. Paul tells us what he was trying to achieve through his teaching in 1 Tim 1:5 ‘But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart.’ But how does this come about? We love, John tells us, because He loved us first. (1 John 4:19) And it can also be said that we tend to love in proportion to the love we have experienced from God. So while these points are probably not new, allow God to speak them to your heart once again. God’s love acts! Rom 5:8 ‘But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners...
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...I've never been lucky in love. i always predicted the end of every relationship I've been through , I expected every single word I've been told, every little fake emotion i thought real so far. All along this road, i was guided by an angel. the one who protected me from harm, wiped away my tears. The one who brought this joy and happiness to my life. He was a bright angel. a shiny diamond. Suddenly out of nowhere He became the main character of my most beautiful and painful relationship. He was the charming prince of my story, the beast in0 my nightmare. Still i couldn't keep grudge against him, because above all he was and still is my best friend. the one i loved just like a brother, the one i shared my secrets with just like a shadow. The beginning of the relationship was as sudden and blurry as its ending. I won't lie and say i was fine with it. it hurt deeply. But as i like to say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. and i think both of us are today. 6 months after "the crash" things started over. But this time it's much more different. we grew up, learned from our mistakes, and we do know unlike the first time the risks and damages it would cause to play with each other's feelings. how do i feel after all that?. Fine! i should say that it is Incredible how things can change! how a single person can turn your world around. how a single person can make you cry until you bleed or make you laugh until you cry. i haven't forgiven him yet, but i don't feel i have to. not now...
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...A Story of Love and Courage Love is a very powerful emotion. It provides people with courage and causes them to act bravely. To have someone to love, and therefore someone to act bravely for, makes one capable of more than expected. Love leads to bravery and can get people through terrible times. In the movie Life is Beautiful, director Roberto Benigni shows the quality of bravery through the experiences of the main characters as they attempt to survive a concentration camp during World War II. When Guido Orefice, an Italian Jew, arrives in Arezzo, he meets Dora, who comes from a wealthy Italian family. Even though she is engaged, she falls in love with Guido, and they marry and have a son, Giosue. At Giosue’s fifth birthday, Guido and Giosue are taken by Nazis to a concentration camp, and Dora insists on voluntarily going with them. At the camp, Guido convinces Giosue that everything is just a game, and he will earn points towards winning a tank. Unfortunately, when Guido goes looking for Dora, he is caught and shot to death by a Nazi soldier, but Giosue and Dora survive. Love is a powerful emotion which leads to acts of bravery, that people perform, even when they are scared. This is shown by Dora’s love for Guido and Giosue, by Guido’s love for Giosue, and by Guido’s love for Dora. Undoubtedly, Dora loves her husband and her son with all her heart; she shows courage when she runs away with Guido, and later again when she volunteers to join Guido and Giosue at the concentration...
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...It is a true rarity to encounter someone who’s inner beauty and spirit radiates from the inside out. This is what you receive when you first meet LuLu Botello. She is a smiling beauty that greets you with warmth and love and she genuinely gives her best each and every time you have the pleasure of being in her presence. A year ago when LuLu stepped into the LeCharme circle we only saw the rocked out Latina who was a great fitness instructor, but buried beneath her pleasant smile and intense workouts was a story of survival. Lulu is an 18 year domestic abuse survivor. As she walks into the Le Charme studio, she is smiling as usual. She takes her seat, tilts her head and asks “So what do you want to know?” She’s ready to talk, she’s ready to open up and tell her story. The story at it’s beginning is a love story. A story of youthful passion and love that still makes her flutter her eyes just a bit. Lulu was in love. She admits that she never thought there would be abuse in her marriage. The self proclaimed romantic continues to open up. While searching for her next words she leans her head to the side and smiles, “I don’t believe he thought he would be an abusive person”. Lulu explains that as the years moved...
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...I relate to The Checkouts. I think I relate to this story because one of my closest friends experienced this and I heard it many times. She went to college and never came back. I haven’t heard from her since. This story made me remember her because she fell in love with him without even talking to him. Just like the girl in the story did. “Then one day the bag boy dropped her jar of mayonnaise and that is how she fell in love.” Although she never talked to him, she still liked him and she said she would always look for him every time she went to get gas for her car, but he was never there. She told me she crossed paths with him again at the ice arena when he was on another date. Of course, my friend was upset that he was with a new...
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...asked his friends what they think of her and his friends thought she was gay. They didn't like her at all. So Billy just went along with them. They all made fun of her and made her feel really bad. Katie was so upset. One day they followed her home from school making fun of her the whole way home. Once she got inside her house she dropped to the floor cringe. She had a crush on Billy since 3rd grade. She didn't know what to do. When Billy got home he felt real bad about what he had done. So he decided to go to Katie's house to tell her he was sorry and that he really loves her. When he got there he knocked on the door no one answered. The door was open so he walked in. He walked into the living room and found Katie lying dead on the floor. She had slit her wrists. Billy was so up set . He knew it was his fault she killed her self. And now he could never tell her how he really felt. The lesson of this story is: Don't wait to until the last minute to tell someone how you really feel. Because it just might be too late. And don't always go by what your friends say, follow your...
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...ago. There once was a god, he’s name was pathos, which translates to passion. Pathos felt passion for everything he was involved in. From food to love, he felt everything. Pathos decided to visit earth, he was feeling utterly lonely that day and went to seek for a lover. Pathos knew that he shouldn’t get involved with a human because they were no good. They always wanted something they couldn’t have, even if what they have is the best, they still seek for more. One this day Pathos met a man with the name of Ripso. This man was everything Pathos could ever want. Not only was this man handsome, but he was also wise. Pathos quickly fell in love with...
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...Love Story, (2008) by Taylor Swift demonstrates myth #1 by suggesting to the masses that nothing and no one can separate two people who love each other, even if it requires sneaking around, and lying. Love story also demonstrates myth #10 by promoting that a woman, in this case, must find a mate in order to be “saved” and truly happy, suggesting that without a mate, a woman would be incapable of happiness or worth. Throughout the song Swift, (Juliet), expresses her fathers’ views that oppose her relationship with Romeo, only to suggest that secretly seeing him was not only acceptable if it meant she was with her true love, but that this would ultimately gain her fathers’ approval in the end. When Romeo is nowhere to be found Juliet expresses her sadness, loneliness, and longing for Romeo to save her. In reality, Juliet is capable of finding another person whom may bring her happiness, and that she can fill her own life with joy on her own rather than being dependent on Romeo. Though Love Story was a hit single for Swift, the song contradicts reality and creates a fantasy-like result from otherwise compromising situations in real life relationships. Love Story should be thoughtfully examined and analyzed in order to decipher fantasy versus reality, and promote more realistic probabilities based on rational models....
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...True Love is my first Melissa Pearl book and I loved it. Nessa and Jimmy’s story pulled me in right away, there was no drawn intro to their story. It went right to the point and showed me what they were suppose to be together. This story was a bit emotional and very sweet. It will definitely touch your hearts and make you fall in love. Jimmy as the rock god in the group, was the biggest manwhore ever. He wasn’t a bad guy, he just didn’t know anything pass girls and sex, that’s what he was brought up to be. He was trained to be that guy, one night stand guy. But one night in the heat of passion he took his best friend Nessa to bed and didn’t think of the consequences of his actions. That night was the biggest mistake of his life that he will...
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...someone tell a true story when it’s made up? O’Brien develops a scene where the facts hold less importance compared to what the reader feels. War is already hard enough to fathom, but when “the crazy stuff is true and the normal stuff isn’t, the normal stuff is necessary to make you believe the truly incredible craziness” (68). The next layer dives into the perception of the reader versus what O’Brien wants to show. Sometimes personal experience can misconstrue the original meaning; hence, by changing any bias of the story, every reader will better connect with the piece, but also understand that “you can’t extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning” (74). The point is to “make [the] stomach believe,” because creating...
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...Shakespeare My first impression of Much Ado About Nothing is that it would be a love story. Although it is categorised as a Shakespearean comedy, I found the many "funny" parts of the play were foggy and required you to read the scene over a few times before you understood them. But then again, I had to read the whole scene over again a few times to understand anything. All of the characters in Much Ado About Nothing seemed to develop a personality of their own from the very first scene. It also helped that I saw the movie version of Much Ado About Nothing before we read the play so I could almost get a picture in my head as to what each character looked like. As the character's had their own personality, so did the two love relationships in the play. Benedick and Beatrice seemed to hate each other so much from the very start of the play that as the play carried on it almost seemed like the two went full circle in their relationship. But their relationship might not have changed for the better without help from Claudio, Don Pedro, Leonato, Ursula or Hero. In Claudio's and Hero's relationship seemed to be much more conventional in the way they came together. Claudio first saw Hero and instantly fell in love with her, while Hero stood by and took orders from her father, Leonato. Only when Don John devised his deception to break Claudio and Hero apart that I felt the relationship was in trouble, but even then I felt there was hope. In Act...
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...Joan Didion and Dave Barry are both excellent writers with full command of the English language. However, they differ in both their purpose and styles when writing. In her essay “John Wayne: A Love Story” Didion writes, “As it happened I did not grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues…they have never been John Wayne…” Didion’s purpose in writing the aforementioned section was to express the distinction between other men and the legend of a man that was John Wayne. To this end, she employs a complex sentence with many participial phrases which she skillfully intertwines with an extended metaphor to further her point. The style is reflective and introspective, and...
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...Love Story I used to think that I was just meant to be alone, that I never would find the right one. Sometimes I would stop to take a look at myself and think that maybe there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was so broken that no one could fix it. I usually take wise decisions in my life. But every time love came around everything changed. I put my heart on a silver plate and got the little pieces that were left from it thrown back at me. I was giving up on love and of all I ever thought love was. And then I met him. “It is scary”, I told him and shrugged. He laughed at me. “What do you mean?” “Well… what if we fall for each other and then it all goes to hell?” He looked at me and answered quickly: “Yeah, what if that happens? But what if it doesn’t.” I took a deep breath. This is how it is; you can take several steps back when someone else takes just a little tiny step forward. You can protest and say “Wow, back off! I didn’t come here to give my heart away and slowly dig down needle-sharp nails in it. That has been happening way too many times before”. You can do that. Or you can run up to him and start laughing while you’re kissing him. It is like choosing between always having a gray sky or having sunshine with risk of a few showers. Do you see how easy it was? “Jamie, you can’t go on like this. You have to start living again”. I knew Lydia was right, but my body didn’t seem to cooperate with my brain. My attempt to get off the couch looked...
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