Plot Summary Jack London's short story "To Build a Fire" follows a sojourner and his dog who travel through the below-freezing Yukon path. Despite multiple warnings of the danger, the man decides to …
Short Stories
The short story The Lesson gives a cruel but valid perspective from children living in a society that disparages and treats them with bias predicated on the color of their skin. Miss. Moore wants the …
Have you ever wanted to complete a task and thought, how am I ever going to do this on my own? You may need to ask for help to even get close to finishing. Both the poem "The Seeker," by J. Patrick Le…
John Lowe had claimed that "All oppressed people seize whatever weapons they can to fight oppression.". Their problems are the behavior of establishing unjustifiable disparities among individuals acco…
Ambrose Bierce, the author of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, was an American short story writer, journalist, and poet. He was an American Civil war veteran and experienced a lot of tragedy. Many o…
Death is an irreversible action, that unquestionably affects every living thing. Everyone is aware of existance, and everyone knows that it will inevitably come to them. For something so consistent in…
The short story, "The Landlady," is a story which takes place in Swindon. It is about a seventeen-year-old boy named Billy Weaver who originally thought to head to "Bell & Dragon;" nevertheless, he co…
Darkness is an embodiment of the unknown. Seen by many as something to fear, it is used by Shoba and Shukumar in the story A Temporary Matter as a shield to hide behind during a nightly game. This gam…
Guy de Maupassant's short story, "The Necklace'' takes place in Paris, 1884. The main character, Mathilde, is a middle-class woman obsessed with Money, Jewelry, and Everything Expensive, (although sh…
"A particular danger of the sea is the fact that after successfully getting through one wave, you discover that there is another behind it. The next wave is just as nervously anxious and purposeful to…