My Story

SHORT STORY PROJECT The Raffle, V.S. Naipaul PLOT Beginning -Who? It's the story of a scholar called Vidiadhar Naipaul. Unlike the other boys, he never gets beaten, humiliated or punished by his teacher, the cross Mr Hinds. In class, Mr Hinds calls him by his first name, contrarily to the other pupils. The boys of his class don't like him much and tend to neglect him (“At cricket I wasn't allowed to bowl or keep wicket and I always went in at number eleven”, page 9). The scholars

My Antonia Willa Carter This novel is entitled My Antonia. It was written by Willa Carter (1873-1947). She wrote a number of novels including O Pioneers! (1947), One of Ours (1922) …etc She became famous through the sucess of the noves especially One of Ours, which won her a Pultizer Prize; and at the age of 9, she moved to Nebraska prairie. The novel was published in

Amy Tan; Conflict between Origins The short story “Rules of the Game” from the book The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, is the story of a 8-year-old Chinese American girl named Waverly Jong who lives in San Fransisco's China Town. The chess game appears for her as a true revelation as she begins to play. As Waverly begins to win more and more tournaments, her Chinese heritage moves aside for the American culture. In this story, the symbolism, the setting and the conflict between Waverly

This text is the introduction to My Antonia which was written by Willa Cather and published in 1918. In this excerpt, an unnamed narrator travelling by train one summer across the American Midwest with an old childhood friend Jim Burden, the both had grown up in a Nebraska town. They reminisce (rɛmɪˈnɪs) about their childhood days and a mutual friend, a Bohemian girl named Antonia. Both of them decide to write what they remember about these girl but eventually only Jim manages to do so. And the

Many sentences, lines, dialogues, etc. help write a story like the short story. Yet the title is what completes it. This is also the case with The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe, a mysterious writer, where – as you might guess – a heart is what succumbs someone to guilt to end p telling the tale of his wrong-doing. The title, in this short story, is extremely relevant to the story. It’s what gives readers an impression of what could happen. If the author had called it “The ticking time bomb”

A page of my travel journal Pheonix Arizona Phoenix Arizona !! At last,I discover a town, with some cars, buildings, living people, animals. I walked a long time before arriving here. I left New York in 3010 after The Big Eartquate which destroyed everything East of the Rocky Moutains. I crossed woods, rivers, and unhappy landscapes. I was alone, except for my dog Rex. He helped me for hunting and I cooked. Once, near Chicago, I even used my rifle to kill wild animals, wolves I suppose, or

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[Refrain] : This is how you remind me Of what I really am This is how you remind me Of what I really am It's not like you to say sorry I'm always waiting on a different story This time i'm mistaken For handing you a heart worth breakin' I've been wrong, I've been down To the bottom of every bottle These five words in my head Scream "Are we having fun yet?" Yeah, yeah, yeah, no no x4 It's not like you didn't know that I said I love you and I swear I still do It must have been so bad

Peter”, “The witness for the Prosecution”. Agatha Christie writes them all. Those stories are different but they all have commons points: In all of those stories there are a lot of suspense. Now, I’m going to resume my favorite story in those four ones: The Golden Ball: This is the story of George and Mary Montresor. They are in a Car, and suddenly, Mary asked George: “ How would you like to marry me?” George was very surprised at that question, but answered as some kind of a yes, because he said

forget her telling me in that elegant way of production of her 1938 book, Address Unknown. At the curhers, ‘You don't drink it. You inhale it.’ Needless to say, that tain call an almost full house at Kline Theatre joined in a was a very pleasant part of my education.” standing ovation. Bishop and Schultz brought their idea for a Gettysburg Taylor’s spiritual return to campus came more than four production of the play to Joseph Lynch ’85, director of alumni decades after she retired from the College as