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and post-traumatic stress disorder have addressed the collapse of certain givens about my self-identity just as other posts (“A Priest Waits with Us in The Emergency,”“My Suicide-Bereaved Family and the Police,” and “Social Uncertainty”) have spoken of my assumptions about relationship to...
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Themes: child abuse, control, change, identity, escape, insanity. More… Highsmith, Horror Vengeful Creditor Short Stories The major themes of this story by Chinua Achebe are political hypocrisy, class conflict, and education as a pathway out of poverty in postcolonial Africa. Other themes ...
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Stories, more than any other artistic expression, have the power to make people care. Stories have the ability to change people’s lives. But to write a great story, a life-changing story, don’t just write about what your characters did, said, and saw. Ask yourself, “Where do I fit...
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who feel like the world is ending around them. The Chicago Review of Books says the short stories explore the “distinctions between trying to be good and being good.” Many of the characters question their actions and experience self-doubt while trying to do their best with what they have....
Now comparing these stories, Jerry and the narrator of “Sixteen” are very much alike, just as they are apart. Maureen Daly and Doris Lessing really give the reader a good feel for the characters and mood, making the tone easy to comprehend. In “Sixteen”, the narrator is very serious...
then look no further. The fifteen short stories in this collection form a vivid image of traditional Irish middle-class life at the height of Irish nationalism, and these middle-class citizens’ desperate search for identity. Published in 1914,Dublinerswas the first outing for several characters ...