Jhumpa Lahiri Short Story

The combination of external and internal struggle while having coming of age experiences represents the balance I speak of within my introductory paragraph. These short stories although fiction have roots in societal truths. Things that although changing, are still alive presently. I feel that Danielle Evans leaves her character’s stories without ending because it is up to us to create an ending. An ending not in her fictional book of short stories but within the lives and people around us.

Even little details that the author writes into the story are integrated into the main idea. McCarthy also includes many clever examples of the literary element irony in this story. The reader notices that Grady seems to have a less than perfect relationship with his father and mother who have divorced. We as readers are also able to understand the humor that is portrayed by the author 's use of verbal irony. Verbal irony is shown through sarcasm by Grady when he tries to laugh about this rough relationship so that it is easier to deal with.

Humans are not perfect beings free from illness and corruption. Things can go wrong and often types people suffer for it. They can go insane. This is further explored in the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart.” written by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Yellow Wallpaper.” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman they are similar due to the recurring themes in both texts featuring appearance vs. reality, and Madness.

“We live in a world where we rarely speak out and when someone does, often nobody is there to listen,” is a quote by Jaycee Dugard in her memoir A Stolen Life. Authors must be able to appeal to their readers in order for the story to be heard. While writing, they consider using multiple different tones and stylistic choices to entice an audience. In A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard utilizes a concerned tone and matter-of-fact style in order to express her emotions, provide readers with ample knowledge of her situation, and reflect on her life experiences. Jaycee Dugard never expected her childhood to be taken away.

Literary devices like conflict, simile, and characterization are used in stories to show us a different meaning or a theme. These literacy devices are used to make an idea clearer and relate it to another idea. The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson uses theme to explain that in life you shouldn’t follow tradition blindly because if you trust anyone blindly then you may be listening to a bad influence, which can lead to devastating actions. Shirley Jackson uses the literary element, characterization to express the theme in the story. One of the main characters Tessie is a very strong person when she stood up to the whole town and protested against tradition.

Shashi Deshpande the daughter of famous Sanskrit scholar Adya Shriranga is a promising writer in the history of Indian English Literature. She bagged many awards for her credit. She won Thirumathi Rangamalai Prize for the novel Roots and Shadows in the year 1982-83. She becomes the inner voice for convoluted, self abnegated, mute and lost women in the male dominated society. In the novel Roots and Shadows she projects her protagonist, Indu, who faces discrimination, identity crisis at different levels of her life.

The novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is not simply written. The author Sherman Alexie, uses several words like articulate, hormonal, and decrepit which displays that the novel could be read by people of all ages. This novel is wonderfully written so that people of every socioeconomic status can relate to real-world problems like poverty, racism, death and substance abuse. Alexie uses simple language to convey the thoughts that are actually inside people’s minds. For instance, in the first chapter of the book, the author introduces Arnold to the world (Alexie, 2007).

Due to her limited exposure to literature, all of her stories had similar storylines and characteristics which narrowed her potential to write about other places and people. I can relate to Adichie since people in my community often ask me: “Are you Indian?” assuming that people with brown skin are all from India. However, I am Sri Lankan, which is an entirely different country. Therefore, from my personal experience, it is evident that the stereotypes that derive from single narratives limits one’s knowledge.

Rebels in Today’s Society Task 1 I found the poem “she must be from another country” quite interesting because of its many themes. Imtiaz Dharker wrote this poem, she is one of the most important and influencing Indian poets that are writing in English right now. One of the recurring themes in her poems are things such as the danger of exclusion, as she said in an earlier interview “"In a world that seems to be splitting itself into narrower national and religious groups, sects, castes, sub-castes, etc. we can only go on excluding others until we come down to a minority of one."

The movie also depicts the cultural similarities between India and Pakistan. It also shows how a right person can bring positive differences in your life. We keep complaining about generation gap but the problem lies when we misunderstand our elders or think they have not grown with time. It’s not their age that speaks but their experience

3. Grantwriters create professional looking papers. This means written in a manner that the grant maker has requested with proper form, grammer and layout. 4. Grantwriters write in positive terms.