Sometimes words act as expert magicians. When they
hold an ordinary picture in front of your eyes and make you see a wholly
different image. This is eccentric, but you fail to accuse the words of
lying. They are all the same as you knew them before. So, where is the
difference? What does it emanate from? Perhaps the writer’s will has
changed!
In literature a symbol is applied only to a word or
phrase that signifies an object or event which in its turn signifies
some thing or has a range of reference, beyond it. Some symbols are
“conventional” or “public”. Poets use conventional symbols; however also
use “private” or “personal... full text...
Along by the darkness Crickets
yelled “Moon, hey great moon…” Along by the darkness Sprouts
with their such long arms The arms that let out their sigh so much as
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Animal Farm written as a "Fairy Story" by an
English writer, George Orwell, is the narration of violent
political revolution of farm animals against the farmer who owns all.
The characters in this story, in disguise of animals, were inspired by
Russian revolution and each symbolizes an... full text...
I drew with the tip of my lead pencil on the cement— A line to separate myself from the world. I drew a line to separate myself from the breeze and freeze that raped trees of their leaves.
You
ever got an opportunity in your life? You ever had a book, let me call
it a superb collection, by which you could easily boast that you
enjoyed a number of short stories? You ever decided to review 50 of
them? Yes, you are right, "50 GREAT SHORT STORIES".
n their readers.
"The
authors represented range from Hawthorne, Poushkin, Maupassant, …,
Saroyan and Salinger," you just notice on the book cover (22nd printing
by Milton Crane, Bantam Books, Inc.), "the variety in style and
subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common -
the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the the
masterpieces of the world's fiction." By the way, do not forget to
read "The man of the House" by Frank O'Connor, an inspiring story about
a boy whose mother is sick, so … .
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