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...

European racism during the Victorian Era was solely based on science, religion, class, colonial conquest and ties to slavery. British Literature during that time contained different racial, social, and moral standards compared to now. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings were not generally made for the...

“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is a short story about a girl who is learning about the economic inequality that exists through her teacher, Miss Moore, who tries to challenge her cynical perspective on life. This story emphasises the main character, Sylvia’s, intense need...

What does it take a child to understand the concepts of social inequality and the understanding of poverty? The importance of education seems to be dismissed by the youth without realizing its value to economic success. The story also portrays the inner vulnerability of the...

The story of “Puss-in-Boots” in Angela Carter’s book, The Bloody Chamber, is a variation of the original “Puss-in-Boots” story, but it differs by the addition of the themes of sex and love — both of which are common in all chapters of Carter’s book, The...

Pathos, a rhetorical device designed to persuade the reader and evoke emotion within the reader, is used commonly among writers in many forms of writing including political speeches, poems, and short stories. In Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventures of The Speckled Band,” the use of...

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...