Red truck 1. A short story by Maria Behan. The Red Truck is about an almost fifty years old man. Who has to clear his things out of the attic in his mother's house, but in the start of the story, he doesn't want to do it. When he starts cleaning up the attic, he finds an old dinky truck and when he saw it and touched it, he was transferred back to his sixth birthday. It had been his favorite gift, he played a lot with the truck back then and one day he lost it. He thought that his brothers had
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brief moment at my desk before numbly walking to the podium at the front of the class. I silently prayed for my zipper to be up and for my teeth to be food-free. My palms were sweating and there was a softball wedged in my chest; I had been dreading this. I could sense all of the eyes on me, everyone was waiting for me to begin reading. However, when I opened my mouth. the words wouldn’t come out. I was so terrified that I would get a bad grade, that no one would like my story, or worst of all
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of Australian Short Stories and the 2000 Philippine National Book Award. * Most recently, in 2006, she has received the Gintong Aklat Award (Golden Book Award, Philippines) for her latest novel Banana Heart Summer, from the Book Development Association of the Philippines. * Poetry that she wrote:Rituals: Selected poems, 1985-1990. (1990) * Other Poetry that she wrote:Summer was a Fast Train without Terminals. (Melbourne: Spinifex, 1998) ISBN 1-875559-76- * Short Stories that she wrote:White
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hate that is meant love.3. Choose one of the main characters from the play Romeo and Juliet (Nurse, Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, or Tybalt), and think about how you would have approached his/her situation. Juliet A. What would you do differently? What would you do just as the character did? I would have told my parents I was deeply in love with Romeo.Still go to Romeo despite what my parents would have thought about itB. Write a modern-day scene based off that character and story. Will this character’s
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Whether reading a short story or a poem, there is always a story to be found within. The authors of these scripts are able to capture readers with the utilization of characterization, rhythm, or a fairytale setting throughout their narrative. It is imagination that sanctions the reader of these literary forms to be able to mentally visualize what the author would like the reader to visually perceive by use of symbolism or descriptive wording. In the poem “The Road Not Taken” or short stories “A Worn Path”
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certain meaning of how our lives turns out in the end. In the short story “A simple Exchange of Niceties” written by Joanne Fedler, “2007” is a young woman facing all the things that turns up, when she didn’t expected it. By an accidental mistake and a simple exchange of niceties, her life turned out for the better. The short story “A simple Exchange of Niceties ” is told by a first-person narrator. Seen in a bigger picture, the short story is about a young woman whose 8 weeks pregnant and she’s going
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Main Characters John Midas is a young boy who has loves to eat chocolates. Due to his greediness whatever he eat or drink will turn into chocolate. The Storekeeper is an old man who grants John his wish and teaches the young boy a lesson that would change him. Mrs Midas is the mother of John Midas. She has a loving face and comforting voice that her children love about especially John. Mr. Midas is the father of John Midas. He is comforting and supportive
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was written by Murasaki Shikibu. It records the story of Prince Hikaru Genji and his experiences of having affairs with numerous numbers of women that he fell in love with. Prince Hikaru Genji is also being called “the shining genji”. He is the son of an ancient Japanese emperor---Emperor Kiritsubo. Genji’s altitude towards women seems crucial at my viewpoint. Although his performance with women portraits him into a lady-killer. However from my viewpoint, he is consistently looking for an ideal
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In On Going Home, Didion tackles themes such as belonging, family and home by telling the story of a time when, without her husband, she took her daughter “home” to celebrate her first birthday to the hometown where Didion grew up in the house where she lived with her mother and premarital family. The essay deals with Didion’s personal issues as she compares and contrasts her current life with her husband and their child versus her life and experiences growing up. The essay speaks to the internal
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arrogance.” (John C. Maxwell) in the short story “The Necklace” by: Guy De Maupassant the main character Madame Loisel experiences “Bad pride.” She decides not to tell the truth about loosening the necklace so she can keep her pride, but in the long run that did not help her. In the short story “Lather and Nothing Else” by: Hernando Tellez, the main character the Barber experience “Good pride” . He decides not to kill Captain Torres at the end of the short story because the Barber has a lot of self-respect
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