Comparing Two Supernatural Short Stories

Midwife’s Tale is Martha Ballard’s diary from the years 1787-1809 analyzed by the historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Martha Ballard is not someone who would appear on a dollar bill, but her diary provides an interesting look into America’s early colonization from the point of view of a woman. Her religiously kept diary is one of the only historical sources we have from a woman in the 18th century providing an interesting look at women’s rights and economics. Martha wrote her diary when she was between the ages 52 and 74 thus the diary follows Martha throughout middle age: a very delicate and dynamic time in a woman’s life. Ulrich analyzed Martha’s diary entries to tell a story of progressiveness and feminism.

Maid by Stephanie Land tells the story of a young woman struggling to get by with her daughter. Her story is important because of the constant sacrifices and the genuine nature of it. Reading this made me understand the privilege of not having to worry about where my next meal will come from or if my next paycheck will allow me to afford my living situation. This story is important because it uniquely explores poverty, motherhood, and identity struggles from a gritty first person lens. Land traded dreams of writing for a low-paid maid job when she left her daughter’s father, Jamie.

A standout amongst the most fascinating advancements in nineteenth-century American writing school courses as of late has been the presentation of old well known books by ladies to the syllabus. Among works of this kind, E. D. E. N. Southworth 's The Hidden Hand is the book understudies appreciate the most.

In the short stories Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates and A&P by John Updike. There are many similarities and differences are shown. An example of one of these are the settings. Both of these stories took place in the 1930’s but one was 1932 and the other was 1938. Although the girls and Connie are both scared they will be sexually abused, Connie and the girls take different risks and are shown in a different setting.

A brief overview of the rest of the book In the rest of book "The Great Divorce", author C.S Lewis talks about MacDonald who will act as the Narrator's guide for the rest of the book. MacDonald is one of the Narrator's favorite writers. During the rest of the novel, MacDonald will explain complicate sights and events that are implied between ghost and Spirits. For instance, the female ghost who keep complaining about her lazy and thoughtless husband, Robert, even after her death..

Edith Wharton was born in a wealthy home where she was sheltered to such an extent that she didn’t even know there was a civil war. In her autobiography, A Backwards Glance, she called her youth “safe, guarded monotonous” (Wharton 7). This upbringing caused a haughty tone to seep in to many of her works, one of which stated, “What can you expect of a girl who was allowed to wear black satin to her coming out ball?” (Turkington 69). Even though her early life was sheltered from the effects of the Civil War, Wharton

Comparing Little Red Riding Hood folktales is a multi tasks operation, which includes many elaborations on the many aspects of the story. Setting, plot, character origin, and motif are the few I chose to elaborate solely on. Although the versions vary, they all have the motif trickery, the characters all include some sort of villain with a heroin, the plot concludes all in the final destruction or cease of the villain to be, and, the setting and origins of the versions vary the most to where they are not comparable but only contrastable, if one can say that origins and settings are contrastable.

Discuss the use of conventions to explore ideologies, values and attitudes in 2 short stories you have studied.

When people think of normal ghost stories they think of stories told around the campfire. Like a ghost of a one handed axe murder that kills kids that venture out into the woods, or the ghost of a kid who drowned in the lake and seeks vengeance on every camper that comes there. Many people don’t associate ghost stories with tales like Macbeth and Hamlet by Shakespeare. Or other works of literature like the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien. Both tales are great examples of a unconventional ghost story not normally told around the campfire, because of the hidden underlying “ghost”.

Compare and contrast In class we read 3 Cinderella stories and 1Cinderella poem. I am going to compare and contrast all Cinderella stories. The names of the stories are called Ashtenputtle, Yeh-shen, and Aquoncin, and the poem interview. Help me compare and contrast the stories. And the poem.

Sellers, Susan. Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction, edited by Susan Sellers, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com.ezproxy.lib.apsu.edu/lib/austinpeay-ebooks/detail.action.

In Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw, a young woman is recruited by a handsome man to be the governess to his niece Flora and his nephew Miles at a solitary mansion in the country. Enamored by the Master and charmed by Flora, the Governess finds the position to be ideal, compared to her poor life before it. After Miles returns home after getting expelled from his boarding school for “contaminating” other children, the Governess sees a strange figure while walking on the grounds. The Governess believes him to be a ghost after consulting with the housekeeper Mrs. Grose. She sees another ghost, presumably of her dead predecessor.

“This is longer than he; you lie, no ;it is true; this branch is longer and he is shorter, much shorter.” This quote was found in “how stories came to earth” is spider was trying to trick the python so he could capture him. In the store on “how stories came to earth” spider tries to get the stories but has to capture four creatures in order to get the stories. In the trickster tale “how stories came to earth” and “coyote steals fire” both have similarities and differences.

Compare and contrast two works from the same genre which were written at least a generation or half a century apart. Consider and explain similarities and differences with regard to musical style and historical context.

People travel from many parts of the world to view the great architectural structures Greece has to offer. They are not only intrigued by the beauty of the buildings but also by their complex development. Greeks’ tradition of building structure came from the ideas of Philosophers such as Thales,Pythagoras, and Archimedes, who questioned their being and challenged their world to find meaning to certain practical applications. From their inquisitions, the Greek Philosophers developed basic but complex strategies that served the purpose of a foundation to many other technical advancements.