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- 191: Eudora Welty: Her Life and Her Works
- ... family for her success. "Without the love and belief my family gave me, I could not have become a writer to begin with" (Welty, IX). Eudora Welty's writings are light-hearted and realistic. Her stories explore common everyday life. Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on April 13, 1909. She was an observant child. She was fascinated by sounds and sights, human voices and the changing of seasons. Welty's happy childhood and serene life is reflected in her fiction. Eudora Welty's ability to observe created her talent to precisely tell situations as they would be seen. This talent brings her stories to life. The in-depth accounts that she writes of jump off of the page and into the readers' imagination. The descriptive passages in her fiction bring about vibrant images in the readers' mind. The short story "A Memory" opens up with a clear visual image. "The water shone like steel, motionless except for the feathery curl behind a distant swimmer. From my position I was looking through a rectangle ...
- 192: Langston Hughes
- ... selected as Class Poet. His father didn't think he would be able to make a living as a writer. His father paid his tuition to Columbia University for him to study engineering. After a short time, Langston dropped out of the program with a B+ average, all the while he continued writing poetry. His first published poem was also one of his most famous, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", and it appeared in Brownie's Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays, and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. One of Hughes' finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain". ...
- 193: Edgar Allen Poe
- Short Story Perversity Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. He defined the form of the American short story. As one might expect, Poe himself eschewed conventional morality, which he believed stems from man's attempts to dictate the purposes of God. Poe saw God more as process than purpose. He believed ...
- 194: Edgar Allen Poe
- Short Story Perversity Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. He defined the form of the American short story. As one might expect, Poe himself eschewed conventional morality, which he believed stems from man's attempts to dictate the purposes of God. Poe saw God more as process than purpose. He believed ...
- 195: Hemingway's "In Our Time": Lost Generation
- ... message about the time period in question. All of the "messages" bring the reader to an understanding of a generation, the "lost generation" that appears to result from Hemingway's novel. Ernest Hemingway uses intense short stories to leave a feeling of awe and wonder in the reader of In Our Time. One begins to become emotionally involved and attached to Hemingway's many stories, just as he himself appears to hold some personal attachment and emotion to each story. One could even speculate that In Our Time's main character Nick, is in fact, Hemingway himself. It seems ...
- 196: Eudora Welty: Her Life and Her Works
- ... family for her success. "Without the love and belief my family gave me, I could not have become a writer to begin with" (Welty, IX). Eudora Welty's writings are light- hearted and realistic. Her stories explore common everyday life. Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on April 13, 1909. She was an observant child. She was fascinated by sounds and sights, human voices and the changing of seasons. Welty's happy childhood and serene life is reflected in her fiction. Eudora Welty's ability to observe created her talent to precisely tell situations as they would be seen. This talent brings her stories to life. The in-depth accounts that she writes of jump off of the page and into the readers' imagination. The descriptive passages in her fiction bring about vibrant images in the readers' mind. The short story "A Memory" opens up with a clear visual image. "The water shone like steel, motionless except for the feathery curl behind a distant swimmer. From my position I was looking through a rectangle ...
- 197: Mark Twain and His Writings
- ... life on the river, but which also had a reassuring alls well meaning. (Robinson) Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 and grew up in a small Missouri town called Hannibal. In the stories The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Hannibal is the basis or the idea for these two novels. Throughout his life, Twain traveled across the world while writing novels and short stories and giving speeches. As a writer he wrote realistically through language, unforgettable characters and a hatred of hypocrisy and oppression (Lemaster). Because of his sharp views of society, he used humor and quick-witted ...
- 198: Summary of After the Sirens, Penny in the Dust, and Under the I
- Summary of After the Sirens, Penny in the Dust, and Under the I In three of the short stories from the book Windows and Mirrors the setting and plot does affect the relationship of the characters greatly. The three short stories that will be applied to this thesis are: After the Sirens, Penny in the Dust, and Under the I. In these stories there are many ways in which the setting and plot affect ...
- 199: Evil - By Edgar Alan Poe
- ... be one of the greatest writers of all time. He was born into a strict religious environment. His father constantly abused him. His family was considered very dysfunctional, which is part of the reason his stories always have an evil tint to them (Basuray). Almost every one of Poe's stories tend to have a dark and macabre feel to them. His beliefs on God and morals also had much to do with the way he wrote. He did not attend church or believe his stories should carry some high moral purpose. He believed that the church and morals in stories were just man's way of trying to interpret what God wanted. He believed that his critics, including members ...
- 200: Berkley
- As man progressed through the various stages of evolution, it is assumed that at a certain point he began to ponder the world around him. Of course, these first attempts fell short of being scholarly, probably consisting of a few grunts and snorts at best. As time passed on, though, these ideas persisted and were eventually tackled by the more intellectual, so-called philosophers. Thus, excavation of ... and Philonous (Berkeley himself). Philonous draws upon one central supposition of the materialist to formulate his argument of skepticism against him; this idea is that one can never perceive the real essence of anything. In short, the materialist feels that the information received through sense experience gives a representative picture of the outside world (the representative theory of perception), and one can not penetrate to the true essece of an object ... a person who lives in a single-story house in the country sees the new building. To this person the structure may seem quite tall, as he has never seen any building taller than three stories. However, a construction worker comes across the same building and perceives its height quite differently than the previous man. Since the second man usually works on buildings about thirty stories high, he thinks that ...
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