dramatic short story "The rocking horse winner," is about a young boy who desires to be loved by his mother. The author, D.H. Lawrence develops a theme that states, the desire for money and social status is a destructive force. The story is about a young boy named Paul who tries to win his mothers love by gambling for money. Paul has a supernatural power which he can commute with his rocking horse to find out the winning races. However, in the end Paul tries too hard to win his mothers love and dies
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I was four to five years old I started receiving books for my birthday, Christmas and every celebration. I read every book I received repeatedly. A friend’s house, a pool party or a road trip – whatever the occasion may be, I always brought a book along to read. Eventually I was gifted a book from a neighbor titled “Alberto the Dancing Alligator” by Richard Waring. I could not put the book down after the first time I read it. That was my first memory of being excited about a book. From the first
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Canto” Review After reading “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett, I had a few different mixed emotions that are somewhat contradicting of one another, however prove to be true I believe. First off, the book proved to be a great story of love, and the bonds that love can create in such a short amount of time. The bond that is created between Hosokawa and Coss, is truly remarkable by the way that this is created, and how it prevails. I think that the beauty that this showed could be very relatable to many different
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"The Man who loved Flowers" The title of the text is “The Man who loved flowers”. Reading this title made me at once pay more attention to the flowers that have an symbolic meaning. My interpretation of the symbolic meaning of the flowers’ colours is that they represent the girl in the lane, the young man and the relationship between them. The white rose represent the girl, it stands for innocence and ignorance, just like the girl that hasn’t done anything wrong and is unknowing about the man’s
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Nothing can overcome the love a parent feels for his/her child. If you can’t let go, of the person you love, they may never get back to you again, so sometimes you have to make some decisions in your life, but they can turn out to be your worst nightmare. The short story Ice Break is written by Astrid Blodgett and was published in 2012. The story is about a girl named Dawn, who is going on an ice fishing trip with her dad, her younger sister Janie and their uncle Rick. Dawn’s mother warned her
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The short story “How the Nurse Feels” by Greg Changnon was first published in 1998. It treats of universal themes such as growing up and how the transition from child to adult is not always an easy or desired process. The adult world can seem alien and impossible to identify with but through the story it is told how a single event can alter the perception of it. It also deals with the boundary between fiction and reality which can be quite blurred especially at this transitioning age. While fiction
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Hermie is a short story about child- and adulthood, unconditional love, and friendship. In the story we are met by memories from a marine biologist’s childhood, and his fight to rid himself of a tender memory of losing a close friend. The short novel promotes that one should not get so intellectual that one loses contact with the real. In Hermie, the main character is a male whose name we do not know. He is a marine biologist, working at a university. He is situated at the Eighteenth International
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“The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell is a short story about conflict. The two main characters are the world renowned hunter, Mr. Sanger Rainsford, and Russian Cossack General Zaroff. In the story, Rainsford is on a friend’s yacht, and while he is on the yacht he is smoking a cigar. He hears a sound that intrigues him. He is curious because it sounded like a gunshot. Curiously, he hops on the railing. While teetering on the yacht’s railing, his cigar falls out of his mouth. He tries to catch
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Year’s day” The short story “New Year’s day” is written by a female writer Fay Weldon. In this story there is a man called Alan, and two girls who are called Clare and Amy. Clare is in a relationship with Alan, and Amy is Alan’s ex-girlfriend. This text gives us an example of how difficult it is to find the love. The message in this story is that could be difficult and hard to find the one and only, the person you have to live the rest of your life with, and the one you love and who loves you. When you
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The short story “A simple exchange of Niceties” written by Joanne Fedler in 2007, is about a young woman who accidentally becomes pregnant, and therefore loses her boyfriend. The young woman has a special relationship to a bench, were she one day meets a woman. They starting to talk, and the young woman find out, that the woman is infertile. She decides to give the woman her baby, but when the woman never come back she keeps it, and think of it as her destiny. The story is written in spoken language
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