Essays on Short Story

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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 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 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...

You can’t understand someone until you’ve walked a day their shoes. This is the realization that Janice E. Fein describes in her piece, “A New Perspective. ” She uses a medley of imagery, figures of speech, and tone to convey her eventual understanding that her...

I once heard that something significant happens in life every six months, good or bad. That every semiannual passing maybe, just maybe, your life would get better, that things would change. Although, the possibility still existed of having your world turned upside down again, to...