Short Stories

“Well Stone, you sonofabitch, you did it,” O'Malley gushed. Stone looked distant in gaze as the loud words of praise fell upon his vacant ears. “Stone...Stone, where's your head at? You should be doing cartwheels right now. Five years of your hard work completed and that scum will be behind bars waiting to be a southern fried convict.”

Themes include major topics such as love, war, life, death, family, and often convey the moral of the story, or a life lesson. Sometimes readers will misunderstand the topic of the story with the theme. The topic is a summary of what the story is about and the theme is the overall message about the topic. A successful author should know that a story should never lack a theme because the theme is what stays in every reader’s mind, even after forgetting the details of the story.

The theme in literature is the lesson you learn from what you have read. You learn a lesson from everything you experience in life and everything that you read has a purpose to teach you something. Sometimes the lesson comes from what other people have experienced, such as in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Other times the theme comes from what other people have learned, heard, or even read about, such as in the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Not only do you see themes in books but also in newspaper articles, magazines, etc. A good example would be The Face of Modern Slavery by Nicholas D. Kristof, writer for the New York Times. No matter where the theme is, if it is in multiple pieces it holds great value. I believe that these pieces

While listening to the StoryCorps stories, three of the five that I chose to focus on all have something in common. Each story depicts in some sort of way that hard work goes a long way in life. The stories I listen to were, “Anytime they had a stunt to do with a black actor, they would paint these white guys in blackface.” “The way that I look at my job as a vendor, I am a professional athlete.” and “All of a sudden Dr. King drove down the street.” These three stories showed that when you work hard, good things come to you. The “black actors” story talked about two men who wanted to become stuntmen for real actors. These two men were rejected from many films but continued practicing in parks, and on the streets. They would dive off park bleachers

A person that doesn’t feel important may cut themselves out of reality. Many people live in these daydreams to avoid the feeling of unimportance in the real world. The narrator Walter Mitty in James Thurber’s short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is an example of what could happen if the person feels that they are not important in the real world. In the story, Walter Mitty is being criticized by other people who are walking out of the court for randomly saying “puppy biscuit,” (302). It shows that almost no one feels he is important, and in doing so makes him live in these daydreams. When his wife finds him sitting in a chair and he talks about if she wonders if he ever thinks, she says, “I’m going to take your temperature when I get

In the story of “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” the character Walter deals with the problem of facing reality. When first meeting Walter he is a commander and a hero on a warplane. When he awakes from his daydream he is driving in his car with his wife as she points out he’s going too fast. The character has several more daydreams, after his wife wants him to get some overshoes. Walter had become a race car driver and a doctor in his daydreams and remembers later that his wife wanted him to get “Overshoes,” he said to himself”(Thurber). “Why do you have to hide in this old chair?”(Thurber) Mrs. Mitty would ask Walter. With Mrs. Mitty Walter will always face reality sooner or

Like many people who haven’t studied literature, if someone asked me what the theme of a story was, I would have given a synopsis of the story detailing the actions and characters in it. As I have come to learn, theme is much more than a distilled retelling of a story. Theme gives a story a deeper meaning. The theme focuses the story and is the behind the scenes force that propels the story forward. In other words it gives the story purpose and shape. “Theme will attempt to hold all the elements of your story

When thinking to myself about whether to Mitty should be laughed at, pitied, or if he is just an average person the one that makes the most sense is that he is just an average person. Mitty is thought to be an elderly man that goes in and out of reality and daydreams and is able to be brought out of them by someone catching his attention. In this story Mitty’s wife seems to be annoyed with how Mitty is with his daydreams but she still stays with him. Mitty daydreams that he is a pilot, a surgeon, an assassin, another pilot, and finally he daydreams that he is facing a firing squad.

When you think of theme what do you think of? I believe the theme is the backbone of the entire short story, novel, poem, and almost any other type of Literature. Basically, the theme of this essay is about theme. This theme represents dramatic irony because you can't really say much more about it. Jack and Jill went up the hill to get some water from the well. Jack forgot to tie his shoes so he fell down the hill. Theme of the story? Don't look past the small things to get to the bigger thing. You might catch yourself slippin' when you keep rolling down the hill. Basically, see the bigger picture. With every theme there is a conflict and a resolution. Without those there would be no theme and without a theme it would not be a story.Persuasive

Irony, satire, parody, humor and epigrams are deeply connected by having one main thing in common: they are usually meant to hurt the intellectual self of someone. We use it in our everyday’s life to make fun of people, or simply because someone is annoying and we would like them to stop, without being “too” rude.

There are themes in every piece of fictional literature ever written. A theme is the central idea of a story that is fictional. A theme can be everything from good verse evil to as simple as light and darkness. In any story there may be more than one theme in it. Some stories have numerous central ideas that can be seen in the one. Most people only focus on one while there may be five that are important to understand to understand the story. The Tell-Tale Heart like some has numerous themes that are all important to understanding the story.

Looming near the cave entrance, rays of golden sunlight streaming in, Cathaldus stretches. The storm has been silenced and he can already feel the familiar tingle in his wings as they flutter in desperation to feel the sun again. He gives them a shake, flapping and stretching outwards before once again pulling them around him tightly to feel their warmth. Deasun’s cloak weighs heavy against his skin, worn but soft from rubbing against Deasun’s armor plates as he pulls it closer. The garment still smells of the Esu, reminding the lonely Ceo of smoke and the smell of charcoal. It makes his chest tighten, his entire being aching to once again embrace the male close against him.

London watched Maureen Frost fidget with the strap of her purse for as long as she could stand. Miss Frost’s face looked like a bleached catcher’s mitt—wrinkled, worn, and very pale. Her hair was frayed and her fingernails were yellowed and hardened into talons. London chastised herself for judging. She’d noticed Miss Frost’s appraisal of her when they’d met. Her eyes had widened at the sight of London’s pink hair and facial piercings. She probably thinks I’m as odd looking as I think she is, London thought.

“OUT!” roared Uncle Vernon, and he took both Harry and Dudley by the scruffs of their necks and threw them into the hall, slamming the kitchen door behind them. Harry and Dudley promptly had a furious but silent fight over who would listen at the keyhole; Dudley won, so Harry, his glasses dangling from one ear, lay flat on his stomach to listen at the crack between door and floor.

Taehyung gasped loudly, expecting the worse, but only whimpered softly, melting onto the door once it all sank in.