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This Short Stories notes page gathers a small set of community-made notes, from story types to individual stories. Mostly suited to secondary school study, they give school students material for practicing interpretation and teachers starting points for discussion. Pick a topic to get started.
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- Short Story Elements139
- Comparing Poems and Short Stories5
- Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories52
- Washington Irving's Short Stories54
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories24
- The Gift of the Magi14
- The Yellow Wallpaper15
- The Metamorphosis19
- The Necklace13
- A Rose for Emily5
- The Lottery9
- Roald Dahl's Short Stories14
- Harrison Bergeron7
- 145th Street: Short Stories50
- St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves10
- My Polish Teacher's Tie7
- The Dead Man7
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The Necklace revision notes 1: CharactersMathilde Loisel: A young, discontent lower middle class woman. She is typical of the kinds of main protagonists used by French Realist writers at this time and is used to explore the deeper meanings of ev...
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ENGL 2329 Purpose Pay attention to FORM and STRUCTURE Consider how the story is told AND what the story tells Is there a message the author is trying to tell? Are there lessons to be learned from the charac...
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The Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper Characters:The narrator, (Jane). She has a depression and a slight hysteria →isolated in a big house and don't do anythingJohn, her husband with whom she has a baby boy. He's a physician.Weir Mitc...
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Text interpretation Brownies Otherness & Racial oppression; Pack mentality; Father figure; Narrative constructionVoice (Black/Mean) vs. Voiceless (White/Nice) - White = baby pigeons; Racial discrimination in order to entertain; Caucasian...
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The Dance and Mr. Tang's Girls THE DANCE: A woman neither virgin nor mother (liminality) is asked to dance naked in an empty field to conjure rain from the rain gods Bela's educated in the West so why would she agree to something like this The men ...
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Am I Blue? Synopsis: Vince, a high school student is bullied by his peers, because they think he is gay. Vince then finds himself with a fairy godfather, a swishy walking man named Melvin. Melvin explains that he could have beco...
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Types of Short Stories There are 4 different Types of Short Stories: PLOT: Focused on events & actions that take place Usually stay away from presenting or developing deep characters & focus on what they do instead Escape fiction/ Action mo...
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Lamb to the Slaughter - created from Mind Map Setting "The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight"" "On the sideboard behind her, two tall glasses, soda water, whisky." "Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos Bucket" "The drop of the head...
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The Midnight Visitor - created from Mind Map The Midnight Visitor Story Over View BY - ROBERT ARTHUR
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Summary of Mahatma's Marksheet MAHATMA'S MARKSHEETS This is short story written by Ramachandra Guha, He was born on 1958 who is a well known ahistorian.He writes stories on social, environmental issues and also on cricket.he has also won many award...
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On the Sidewalk Bleeding - Criado a partir de um Mapa Mental Characters Written by: Ed McBain Setting
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the legend of sleepy hollow - created from Mind Map charactes: places character traits
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summary with illustrations
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Summery with illustrations
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metamorphosis - creado desde un Mapa Mental Characteristics One day he woke up and realized he was a mustache.One day Gregor Samsa was transformed into a very ugly moutruo as described in the short novel mention that he is very ugly about
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These notes offer different ways into the unit. Types of Short Stories describes approaches to short fiction, including stories focused on events and actions. Other notes focus on individual works: Am I Blue? includes a synopsis, while The Yellow Wallpaper introduces characters and their circumstances.
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The notes cover story types as well as individual works. Am I Blue? includes a synopsis, The Yellow Wallpaper introduces characters and their circumstances, and the notes on Lamb to the Slaughter include details of its setting. Text interpretation also considers themes and narrative construction.
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