Short Story Assignment- “A Girl’s Story” In most short stories the author writes a story about an experience they have had or something they have made up. In David Arnason’s, “A Girl’s Story,” the first thing that catches the eye is the title. David Arnason incorporates the readers in the story; he writes a story about the process of the author writing a romance novel. The story is entitled, “A Girl’s Story,” because the author tries to write a novel a female would write, or would want to read. David Arnason begins the story in the first person, then moves back-and-fourth to third person. In this type of writing, the readers have an opportunity to enter the text and understand it and the author more. Arnason uses techniques, such as circular …show more content…
Foreshadowing- “She has slipped a ring from her finger and seems to be holding it towards the light. You see? I could do alot more of that but you wouldn’t like it. I slipped a lot of details in there and provided all those hints about strange and dangerous things under the surface. That’s called foreshadowing.” (Arnason, page 228) Symbolism- “You’re supposed to ask yourself what the ring means. Obviously it has something to do with love, rings always do, and since she’s taken it off, obviously something has gone wrong in the love relationship.” (Arnason, page 228) Rhetorical question- “You may object that this would not have happened in real life, that the conversation would have been awkward, that Linda would have been a bit frightened by the man. Well, why don’t you just run out to the grocery store and buy a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread? The grocer will give you change without even looking at you. That’s what happens in real life, and if that’s what you’re after, why are you reading this book?” (Arnason, page …show more content…
Therefore, he uses society’s stereotypes that shape our notions of females to create the characters and the plot. For example, some topics that David Arnason mocked were fairy tale stories, such as Cinderella. Linda resembles Cinderella; long blonde hair, blue eyes, tall and slim. In many fairy tale stories, there are princes ‘save’ the princess and in “A Girl’s Story”, the fisherman comes to the lake and meets Linda, coincidentally. The author makes both of the characters good looking, because people expect people in a love story to be attractive. “Black hair is sexy too, but it doesn't go with virtue. I've got to to deal with a whole literary tradition where black-haired women are evil… So you’ve got blonde hair and you’re this tall slender girl with amazingly blue eyes. Your face is narrow and your nose is straight and thin. I could have turned up your nose a little, but that would have made you cute, and I really need a beautiful girl.” (Arnason, page 228) “Suddenly, she heard a rustling in the bush, the sound of someone coming down from the narrow path from the road above… “I’m sorry, I always come here to fish on Saturday afternoons and I’ve never encountered anyone here before.” (Arnason, page
Even when examining Anna’s early relationship with Jeff, when she arranges for him to come up on weekends with Chuck. He protests saying, “Jesus, I don’t even know the guy…why didn’t you call me first” (Wallace, 315). Her insecurity about whether or not Jeff would come up on weekends without this convenience allowed for a lack of communication of feelings between Jeff and Anna. However, of more importance is Anna’s lack of communication with Peter. A large part of what makes Anna herself is her ability and love of creating stories. When her husband does not share this, Anna finds this challenging, and lets it become a barrier for communication. “His face set in the pained expression he wears for conversations like this – “What ifs” speculations. When Jennifer and I sit in a restaurant making up stories about the people around us, he closes his eyes, just as he’s doing now” (Wallace, 317). Peters almost dismissal through the closing his eyes of Anna’s love for story making allows for a distancing and ultimately a deep seeded feeling of isolation and
During Shakespeare's time, the wedding and engagement rings indicated commitment. The rings Portia and Nerissa gave to Bassanio and Gratiano, that they were never to remove, were just that. "I give them with this ring, Which when you part from, lose, or give away, Let it presage the ruin of your love And be my vantage to exclaim on you" (3.2.171-4). The rings stood for the man's commitment to his wife just as rings Bassanio and Gratiano would give to Portia and Nerissa at their weddings would stand for the wives' commitment.
Everyone remembers their first crush and the majority of the time we were too shy to talk to that person. In the story “Checkouts” it begins in Cincinnati. There was a new girl in town and she was constantly asked to got to the local grocery store. On her first trip to the store, there was a bag boy that had caught her eye. None of them were brave enough to talk to one another. After a few months, they both moved on and went on with their lives; they later saw each other with a date at the movie theaters. Cynthia Rylant reveals the idea that the best writing is personal and revealing through the thoughts of the boy and girl using third person narrator (omniscient), and including a topic that all young readers can personally relate to.
“Girl, Interrupted” is the story of a young girl’s attempted suicide and her time in a psychiatric hospital. The author tells the story of her experience at McLean Hospital and the people she meets while she is there. In Susanna Kaysen’s “Girl, Interrupted,” the author uses the hospital records to symbolize inconclusiveness of her diagnosis to support the theme of confusion of social nonconformity with insanity. Many of the other patients at McLean Hospital have very obvious diagnosis’ such as psychopath or depressed, but Kaysen’s diagnosis is borderline personality disorder, which has symptoms that most teenages can relate to. Throughout her stay at McLean Hospital and years later when she reads her hospital records, Kaysen struggles with accepting herself and her diagnosis.
Foreshadowing is used a lot throughout this whole book. Foreshadowing is used to give clues on important events in the future and keeps the readers interested. It is also used to help readers understand what comes next. From the beginning to the end, it is used to make the book for fun for the readers and to make the readers be more thoughtful. It can also be used in symbolism. Foreshadowing is used to hint at how Lennie will get in trouble, because of Curley’s wife, the death of Lennie and how George shoots Lennie.
female subjects are not to be underestimated. . . the narrative communicates a “type” that tells
story contains another term that hints to what will happen, foreshadowing. This term is easily
In the short story "Cornet at night" by Sinclair Ross foreshadowing plays a very important role in the piece of literature. Foreshadowing is the slight hint or clue that the author gives the reader to see how they can get the reader to imagine the vast amount of possibilities of what is to come in the future. In this story, foreshadowing is seen at many different times, but there are two instances where they are noted very strongly.
The ring represents who Lovisa was before and the life that she lived. This is most
This is done effectively when the narrator reveals her wedding ring to those closest to her for the first time and Carter writes, "My old nurse, who still lived with my mother and me, squinted at the ring askance: opals are bad luck, she said" (9). The importance of the fire opal ring arises due to the suspicions brought forth with it. The opal symbolizes misfortune, and helps to further foreshadow the narrator's inevitable outcome. In similar fashion, Carter uses a second gift, a ruby choker, to help further the sense of foreboding for the narrator by describing the gift as, "flashing crimson jewels round her throat, bright as arterial blood" (11). This wedding gift from the husband symbolizes a slit throat. Although created in defiance of death, Carter uses this gift to foreshadow the danger of death for the
Amy Tan’s classic short story, is a coming of age story as the main character wakes up to her heritage when she travels back to China. It is also a story of internal racial tension, not in the sense of prejudice, but internal racial conflict that exists inside Jing-mei as the battle between what she is by nature and what she is by birth. She suddenly discovers her long lost sisters just a month after her mother dies (Danielle 2014). She goes to China and after her arrival, Jing-Mei sees her two sisters who she has never seen before and finally realizes that both of them are as same as her mother. These discoveries lead her to explore her true Chinese identity and reunite with entire family. In this story there are very important themes: life
Gender stereotypes are ideas simplified, but strongly assumed, on the characteristics of men and women, that translates into a series of tasks and activities that are assign in each culture. Along life, family, school, and environment, Society thought us what is right and what is not in being men or women. Starting with the form we dress, talk, express, behave, to what we can play or what sport to participate. The margin of the biological endowment differences males and females; the fact of being women or men implies a long process of learning and adaptation to the rules established starting with work, personality, love and desires. In the movie "The Ugly Truth." you can see different situations that reflect what society is teaching us for
The story is being told from the narrative mode. This can be observed in instances such as “I have to confess that behind his father 's back Phalina joined in their fun” and “But, as I have said before, he loved him with a kind of condescension.”
Rings also often indicate a promise, vow or bond (for example, a purity ring standing for the vow of abstinence and chasteness). Bonds and promises are a centre point in The Merchant of Venice, and so too the breaking of them. This will be explored in more detail later in the essay.
The conflict in “Girl” is that of parenting vs the environment. The narrator of the text is a mother giving advice to her daughter. The mother is concerned for the daughter because she believes that the daughter may grow up to be a slut because of the social pressures put on her. This is supported by the lines “on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming,” “you mustn’t speak to wharf-rat boys,” and “don’t squat down to play marbles,” (74). These lines suggest that by interacting with boys and not being pious will lead the daughter down the path to becoming a slut. It is because of this environment that the mother attempts to steer her daughter back on to the right path by giving her both practical advice for when she has her own home, such as how to sew, iron, cook, sweep, and even make herbal medicines, and general life and relationship advice, such as how to talk to strangers and that some relationships may or may not work out. In certai...