...Short Story 1 Little Red Riding Hood Brandon Picone Ashford University Introduction to Literature Loretta Crosson April 8, 2013 Short Story 2 Because she dares to defy societal norms of acceptable female behavior, Little Red Riding Hood faces death at the hands of the Big Bad Wolf, who embodies patriarchy. Every short story has an overall theme which is the identified representation of the idea behind the story. In the story “Little Red Riding Hood” documented by Catherine Orenstein, the long cherished theme of not talking to strangers carries a different lesson in the original version of the story. The main characters and plot remained the same however it is not only talking to strangers that Red Riding Hood should have avoided. The two literary elements of plot and symbolism, contribute to the overall theme of not losing your virginity. The plot begins when Little Red Riding Hood’s mother tells her to take some food to her Granny who is sick. Little Red Riding Hood meets the wolf and she tells him where she is going. Along the way she runs into the “wolf” and breaks one of the cardinal rules we teach our children today,” Don’t talk to strangers”. During their conversation she ignorantly gives him the location of her grandmother’s house and various other details that open the door for the wolf to play his tricks. The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by...
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...Assignment: Write an essay (700-1000 words) in which you analyse and interpret the short story Poetic Justice. Your essay must include the following points: • A characterization of Jed Cunningham • The narrator’s image of herself • The significance of their youthful relationship • Comment on the language and the point of view • The theme(s) • The title Text: Poetic Justice, a short story by Diana Appleyard, published in Days of Wine and Roses, Black Swan, London 2004. Poetic Justice Emil Lindgaard Nielsen The short story pivots around a mature woman whom recently discovered a social network for her old school, in which people tend to post descriptions of their current lifestyles. This makes her reminisce of old days and in particular her old boyfriend, Jed Cunningham. Jed was a rather odd fellow, who didn’t have intensions to stand out but somehow never seemed like everybody else. He was tall, with thick black hair, blue eyes, pale skin, broad shoulders and a mouth with a constant sardonic smile. He was smart, cynic and seemed ready to or already had entered adulthood. The curse of him not being capable of doing expected things caused him into living on a remote island by himself. The narrators saw him as a bit of a hipster, embracing the lifestyle of carpe diem, way before everybody else. Her perception of herself is at first rather negative. When she first thinks back on her youth, she isn’t pleased with her current body. Her stomach extends over her waistband...
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...author of a short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" uses Connie's character to successfully portray the conflict between fantasy versus reality. Connie, who views the idea of maturity as being experienced with men and exceedingly independent, tries bit too hard to follow those approaches to appear sexually attractive. However, Connie's flirting comes to an end as Arnold's unexpected visit to her house escalates into a horrific incident of kidnapping. This experience forces Connie to confront the reality, ultimately having her fantasy world crumbled. As mentioned previously, the biggest fantasy of Connie's is her perception of maturity. Oates describes Connie as an attractive fifteen year old girl who had a "habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors, or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was all right" (323). Clearly, Connie's major concern consists of finding her sex appeal and having her looks approved by older boys. Without having any proper preparation, Connie throws herself into the merciless world of adulthood. "Someone leaned out a car window and invited them over... [she felt] good to be able to ignore him" (324). This line shows that Connie is pleased by the attention she receives and simply measures her own maturity based on her ability to select guys to go on dates with. However, Connie is too naive to realize that love in her fantasy world is distant from the reality of adult sexuality. Many times in the story,...
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...In Sandra Cisneros’ short story The House on Mango Street, protagonist Esperanza Cordero can be described as a woman-child who exhibits vast amounts of maturity. On one hand, Esperanza can show signs of being a child when hanging out with friends and socializing; however, Esperanza tends to show adult-like qualities when she begins to empathize with a friend while consoling them at the same time, and this indirectly shows off her emotional maturity. Upon learning about Sally’s restricted household, Esperanza uses her innate ability to recognize Sally’s issues and she openly states that “...all you wanted, Sally, was to love and to love and to love…” (Cisneros 13). Esperanza’s assessment of Sally’s issue was spot on, and since Esperanza is mature,...
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...“Since we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see reality.” If reality cannot change why don’t we change our societies view on reality. In the short story “The Flowers” there is an innocent playful 10 year old African American girls named Myop who is picking flowers in the woods near her house. As she was picking the flowers she walked off course and discovers a decaying lynched African American man next to her feet. According to the last statement of the story “And the summer was over” Alice Walker depicts that Myop loses her innocents when she finds an African American man dead making her find her true reality of how her people are treated. The story indicates the loss of innocence, making specific racial experiences that...
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...Saving Sourdi is a short story, which deals with the struggles and perceptions of Nea, who is one of the characters. The main characters are the elder sister Sourdi and the younger sister Nea. These two sisters are close and grew together all through to their life. Their growth and togetherness exhibit their different roles played in this story thus clearly bringing out their definite characters. This story is illustrated to show how the character of Nea and her viewpoint shapes the interpretation of the reader about the story. Saving Sourdi is a tale that holds up the strong bonds of sisterhood and family and change as people grow to maturity. The story is created from a point of view that can influence how one views the characters and their choices. This short story by May-Lee Chai is quite interesting in showing how the characters ultimately play different roles. Nea, who is the sister to Sourdi, is the narrator as well as the principal protagonist in “Saving Sourdi” as they grow up into adulthood (Chai, 43). Although Nea and Sourdi grow up together, the development of their characters is differently manifested. Nea falls behind, maturity-wise, but Sourdi continuously matures. This is most likely due to her aggressiveness together with her nervous behavior that plays the negative roles all through the story. It is evident from the story that Nea continually attempts to save her sister all through the entire story but with no success over and over. Her action shows her perseverance...
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...Growing Up: Much Harder Than We Expected As people age and grow up, maturity and wisdom is gained through every experience. From the time a child becomes an adult, they are required to deal with real life situations, and learn how to handle their responsibilities. In the short story “A&P” by John Updike, Sammy the narrator, is a young immature nineteen-year-old that makes a drastic change to his life. His immaturity and wishing to do and say whatever he wants leads into consequences he must face. The short story, A&P, takes place in a small New England town’s A&P grocery store. A&P is in the center off the town, five miles down the beach. Sammy is a grocery cashier, who finds himself fascinated by three girls in swim suits. Chunky or plain girl, is the first girl that catches Sammy’s attention. She has a tan with lines behind her back legs were the sun never hits. There was this tall girl too. Big tall “Goony-Goony” with a chin that was too long. The third one was the leader or “Queenie”, the name that Sammy used, was the most beautiful of all three. The way she walked with her prima-donna long legs catch Sammy’s attention. As the girls go around shopping through the store, Sammy observes the reactions of other customers as they see this girls outfit. The girls, however appear to be unique in all aspects. Walking down the aisle barefoot, standing up straight with their necks over stretched. They are different than the usual customers that Sammy sees every day, and this is...
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...George Washington University. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Madeline Martinez, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University. Contact: madeline1@gwu.edu Abstract This paper presents the selection and design of KM approaches to address. To select the appropriate approaches company objectives and current gaps were analyzed and link with their respective or tentative approaches. For each approach three KM objectives were presented using the SMART approach to ensure that our KM strategy meets the needs and requirements of the organization. A business case was also made using the information gained from knowledge maps, the letter from the CEO, and the agency maturity assessments. Keywords: SMART objectives, KM approaches, Case Study, Communities of Practice, Lessons Learned. Supporting the Flow of Critical Knowledge by Designing KM Approaches Now we are ready to select and design KM approaches after having a call to action and a gap analysis in place. Previously, we have analyzed Vivint’s strategic knowledge needs, and its gaps and opportunities. This study will help us focus our KM approaches in the right direction, stablishing the most appropriate KM core group and addressing the correct issues. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to address the immediate problems through KM approaches that will build long-term capabilities for the company. Most KM approaches fall into one or more of...
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...Girl is a short story written by Jamaica Kincaid about a mother who speaks to her daughter about the responsibilities she need to uphold as she grows into a woman. These are not just duties that she need to uphold as a woman, but in order for her to be respected in society. For example, the mother tells the daughter to soak her clothes right after she takes them off because clothes play a factor when it comes to first impressions. When you wear proper clothing it shows that you have self-respect and a high level of maturity. In other words, someone who is poorly dressed displays a sign of poverty. Even if they are not poorly dressed men can see them as sluts because women dress with low maturity and no respect and that is what the mother is...
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...not deal with responsibility well. He was setting off bottle rockets with Ziegler, and then took off running when approached by the law. He thinks he is invincible like most teens. He also believes he is above the law, and can get away with murder. Jake enjoys toying with others never taking anything seriously. Jake Ritchie is the main character in the short story, “Officer Friendly.” Jake is a troublesome boy who lives in a small town named Allison Point. Jake is a student athlete with sixteen years under his belt. He plays hockey for his town’s league, along with his best friend Travis Ziegler. By the end of the story, Jake learns to become more responsible for his actions. After the incident when officer friendly collapsed and needed assistance, Jake learned that life is no joke. Jake and Travis are very similar characters in this short story. They are both devious thrill seekers. They are always on the prowl for excitement, but not ordinary excitement. Jake and Travis are into cheap thrills like blowing off bottle rockets, and all they care about is not getting caught. Officer friendly is the antagonist of the story. He is a police officer that takes his job and the law very seriously. He doesn’t allow...
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...& P: An Analysis of the Character “Sammy” As people age, maturity and wisdom is gained through every experience. From the time a child turns eighteen and becomes an adult, they are required to deal with the realities of the real world and learn how to handle its responsibilities. In John Updike’s short story “A&P” the protagonist Sammy is a young man in 1961 New England who works in the town’s local grocery store. In a matter of a day, Updike goes from an immature boy with unrealistic ideas and fantasies, to a man who is about to realize how life altering the choices he makes can be. Sammy realizes that life isn’t always fair and that sometimes it involves the consequences that life can deal to anyone who has not had time to test a rash decision. Updike’s story illustrates that a part of growing up is a willingness to accept consequences of one’s choices, and that life's hardest lessons are sometimes learned a little too late. This story represents a coming-of-age for Sammy, as seen through his evaluations of the costumers as the story develops. Though it takes place over the period of a few minutes, it represents a much larger process of Sammy’s growth. From the time the girls enter the grocery store, to the moment they leave, you can see changes in Sammy. At first, he only notices the physical appearance of the girls: how they look and what they are wearing, seem to be his only thoughts. As the story progresses, he notices the interactions between the girls, and...
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...Raven Davis 11/25/14 Professor Pearse Emerging Adulthood: My Story After leaving the adolescence stage, young adults are not ready mentally to take on adult roles and responsibilities. Therefore the stage called emerging adulthood takes place before adulthood is entered. There comes a point in an individual’s life where he/she must surpass his/her youth and enter adulthood. This development, otherwise known as maturity, often transforms the individual in all physical and mental characteristics. Maturity, in many ways, sets the basis for how a person will view and approach life. I have experienced maturation from a shy and insecure child in middle school to a responsible and confident young adult in high school and throughout college. However, some people seem to think that this level of maturity comes to a stopping point once you reach a certain age. I have learned that that is not the case at all. Being mature plays a role in every aspect of life in general, which means it is an ongoing growth no matter your age, race, ethnicity, or gender. Personally, since I was a little girl I have always had a mature mindset in many situations. I had never act my age and I always found myself hanging out with older girls and guys. Everyone around me said I act like their mom when it came to making long and short term decisions. I was not your typical teenager when it came to romantic relationships or friendships of any kind. One example that showed me I had a very unique maturation was...
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...destroyed with a simple gust of wind. Strong social problems like racism and rape are among the causes of the destruction of the absence of evil, innocence. Myop is a girl who plays the protagonist role in the story The Flowers. This story was written by Alice Walker. This story is a vivid example of the consequences of racism and how it can affect the life of an innocent girl. In addition to racism, rape is another compelling reason that destroys innocence and leaves marked the history of any person subject to this abuse (White). The story "The Answer Is No" by Naguib Mahfouz tells how a rape victim can be marked forever. Children are the first victims when we speak of racism and rape because they lack the means to defend themselves. They are easy prey for people without a soul with any clear sense of decency and humanity (Crosson-Tower). Racism has become the flagship of empires and nations, to justify their anger against those who are different. The changes we have recently experienced worldwide, this new era of globalization has meant that entire towns revive feelings of nationalism, unfortunately the wrong way. Because of its ambitious leaders with power, these feelings of nationalism have been driven by anger, hatred, intolerance and violence (Dain). The Flowers story is about a girl who is a victim of racism indirectly. Myop is a happy girl, who likes all children, lived without worries and who was happy playing with the animals. One day, she decides to go to the forest...
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...Humankind is breaking apart because people are becoming shallow thinkers. Four stories that describe that problems cause the general public to break apart are: Desiree’s Baby, The Flowers, The Lottery, and The Sniper. People being critical and judgmental are a few problems that causes to tear the humanity apart. Do not let others influence your relationship by reason of being different. In the short story, “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, it is about a lady who made a family with a handsome man, but when they had a baby, he started to regret having a family and kicked them out. Chopin writes, “Young Aubigny’s rule was a strict one too and under it his negroes had...
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...Numerous short stories have been written throughout time, some are just for our imagination and entertainment; however, some of them are for teaching life lessons. The story Little Red Riding Hood was written partly to teach a lesson. In the French version, a young girl loses her virginity and is said to have “seen a wolf” that is what this story is based on. Little Red Riding Hood is about an innocent little girl who runs in to a wolf in the forest while she is on her way to her grandmother’s house. Her grandmother being ill, her mother had baked a cake and a pot of butter hoping that it would make her feel better; however, while Little Red Riding Hood was taking her the food to her grandmother is when she met the wolf in the forest and the wolf was thinking about attacking and devouring her but there were woodcutters working in the area and didn’t want to bring any attention on himself. However, the wolf being nice started to ask her questions and gained the trust of Little Red Riding Hood in a short time and he learned where the grandmother lived. Little Red Riding Hood being naïve she had informed him the location of her grandmother’s house to the wolf. The end result of her providing the information to the wolf was the death of her grandmother and the little Red Riding Hood because the wolf ate both of them. According to our reading, “In fiction is associated with something abstract, something broad: The theme in a story is associated with an idea that lies behind the...
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