Examples Of Human Nature In Short Story

How Human Nature is Portrayed 2 “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste it’s served up,” George R.R. Martian. Human nature has a wide range of different characteristics that can make up a person. The short stories, “The Tale-Tell Heart,” “The Black Cat,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Lottery,” and “To Build a Fire” have many representations of how human nature can affect one’s self and the others around them. Characteristics, Tools, and language/communication are just a few of the types of human nature that is going to be discussed though out this paper. Characteristics are a big part in anyone’s human nature and it is shown by the main characters in each of these stories. In “The

“The Lottery” is another story that represents human nature characteristics, through the character Mrs. Hutchinson. Mrs. Hutchinson said, “…and I looked out the window and the kids was gone, and then I remembered it was the twenty seventh and came a-running” (Jackson 4). This is a representation of Mrs. Hutchinson’s characteristics as being quirky, but at by the end of the story we see a side of her, she stands up for herself and her family and becomes angry. In the final story, “To Build a Fire” the main character is a father who went out in the winter storm alone, and as he was walking the fifty below zero weather he realized, “The old-timer on Sulphur Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that ensued: after fifty below, a man should travel with a partner” (London 3). This is an example of his of one of his characteristics because it shows that he is a stubborn man. He went out it that horrible weather alone even though he was told that he needed to go out with a

In both “The Tale-Tell Heart” and “The Black Cat” the narrators do not communicate with their enemies, they just keep to their selves and do not share with anyone of their plan. In “The Cask of Amontillado” the narrator lies to his “friend” making him think that nothing is wrong, “True—true,” I replied; “and, indeed, I had no intention of alarming you unnecessarily—but you should use all proper caution” (Poe 4). “The Lottery” represent language/communication in a way that women always communicate, “They greeted one another and exchanged bits of gossip as they went to join their husbands” (Jackson 5). This is an example of language/communication because it shows that in any culture there are always women who like to talk about people and spread rumors. In “To Build a Fire” the