Essays on Short Story

Author Baburao Bagul, in his short story titled Mother, lends a voice to motherhood and widowhood experienced by a lower caste Dalit woman. It is the depiction of fierce battle for life in an urban slum. Baburao throws light upon the triple burden of discrimination...

In Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Téllez, the barber has a choice of whether or not to kill the captain or to let him go. The barber makes the right choice because he wants to be known as the best barber in town not...

In Hernando Tellez’s “Just Lather, That’s All,” the barber would have been a coward if he had killed Captain Torres. This is because the barber would not like to commit the biggest sin of his career, which was to spill a drop of the client’s...

In the short story Jumping Monkey Hill, Adichie uses irony, syntax and imagery to reveal the struggle of true western women in a mixed environment to prove the point that many of the immigrants feel out of place in America and it’s causing them to...

The story is set in the 1800’s. Where a woman’s worth was determined by her marriage status. Once married, she will become the legal property of her husband. Women could not vote nor testify in court. Women have no say in anything and have to...

“Magic is the power to use supernatural forces to move impossible things happen, such as making people disappear or controlling events in nature” (Collins dictionary). The Monkey’s Paw is a short story about a family that is given the chance to receive a magical Monkey’s...

Araby is a short story by James Joyce which is about a young boy in Ireland who is obsessed with the girl living across the street When the young girl mentions how badly she wants to attend a certain bazaar, he sees an opportunity to...

In Tim O’Brien’s, The Magic Show, O’Brien conveys this story using mystical examples, emotional representation, and personal experiences. O’Brien explains to the reader that writing fiction is like conducting magic. The mystery that he uses in the story keeps the reader hooked. While not only...

In the short story “The Ones that Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin the narrator uses many different literary devices. Some of the devices are allegory, utopia and imagery. Although you see many themes throughout the short story one of the biggest...

Araby is a short story written by James Joyce about a boy from Dublin, Ireland; who falls in love with neighbor girl. When the narrator finds the library left behind by the former tenant narrator is left intrigued. When the girl narrator infatuates about asks...