- Johnsy is ill with pneumonia and believes that when the last leaf falls from an ivy vine outside her window, she will die.
- As each leaf falls, she counts down from the remaining leaves. When only one leaf is left, she insists it will fall and take her life with it.
- That night, a fierce storm hits but the last leaf remains. The next morning Johnsy sees it is still there and decides she wants to live after all to pursue her dream of painting the Bay of Naples. It is then revealed that the neighbor Behrman, also ill with pneumonia, painted the last ivy leaf there during the storm to provide hope for Johnsy's recovery.
This summary provides the key details from the short story "The Last Leaf" by O. Henry:
1) Johnsy, an artist, falls ill with pneumonia and believes that she will die when the last ivy leaf falls from the vine outside her window.
2) Her friend and roommate Sue tries to cheer her up and get her mind off the ivy, but Johnsy remains fixated on counting the leaves as they fall.
3) During a rainstorm, the last ivy leaf remains clinging to the vine. When Johnsy wakes and sees it still there, she believes she will live.
O. Henry's short story "The Last Leaf" is summarized in 3 sentences:
The story follows two artists, Johnsy and Sue, who live in Greenwich Village. Johnsy falls ill with pneumonia and believes she will die, as the last leaf remains on a vine outside her window. The doctor tells Sue that Johnsy will recover if she wants to live, and Sue tries to distract Johnsy and give her hope by discussing fashion to improve her chance of survival.
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Simian by Monkey Poet (SAMPLE)Burning Eye
Monkey Poet experiences a strange encounter in a San Francisco bar. He is transported to a magical realm where he meets famous poets like Dylan Thomas and Charles Bukowski. They invite him to a poetry reading. At the reading, Monkey Poet shares a controversial poem about shooting a baby, to silence from the group. The piece is a exploration of war and the evolution of the concept of genocide over history told through poetry and music. It references many genocides and mass killings of the 20th century.
1) The story describes a futuristic world where people live isolated underground and rely entirely on a centralized Machine to provide for their needs.
2) The main character, Vashti, receives a call from her son Kuno who wants her to visit him, but she is hesitant to leave her room.
3) Kuno reveals he wants to see the stars and surface of the earth himself, which shocks Vashti as interacting directly with the natural world is contrary to their society's norms. She remains unsure about visiting Kuno.
This document is an excerpt from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It begins with a preface by the translator providing biographical context about Dostoevsky's life experiences that influenced his writing. It then continues with Chapter 1 of the novel, which introduces the main character Raskolnikov and describes him walking through the hot streets of St. Petersburg in a state of mental anguish, deep in troubled thoughts. He arrives at the home of an old widow woman, where he enters her apartment and scans the room, taking note of its furnishings and layout.
This document provides a summary of the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It begins with background on Dostoevsky's life, noting he came from a poor family and found early success with his first work before facing persecution. He was sentenced to death which was later commuted to hard labor, leaving him traumatized. The document outlines the plot of Crime and Punishment, where the main character grapples with whether to commit a violent crime and deals with the consequences. It provides context for understanding Dostoevsky's focus on suffering and cruelty within the legal system in his works.
- Johnsy is ill with pneumonia and believes that when the last leaf falls from an ivy vine outside her window, she will die.
- As each leaf falls, she counts down from the remaining leaves. When only one leaf is left, she insists it will fall and take her life with it.
- That night, a fierce storm hits but the last leaf remains. The next morning Johnsy sees it is still there and decides she wants to live after all to pursue her dream of painting the Bay of Naples. It is then revealed that the neighbor Behrman, also ill with pneumonia, painted the last ivy leaf there during the storm to provide hope for Johnsy's recovery.
This summary provides the key details from the short story "The Last Leaf" by O. Henry:
1) Johnsy, an artist, falls ill with pneumonia and believes that she will die when the last ivy leaf falls from the vine outside her window.
2) Her friend and roommate Sue tries to cheer her up and get her mind off the ivy, but Johnsy remains fixated on counting the leaves as they fall.
3) During a rainstorm, the last ivy leaf remains clinging to the vine. When Johnsy wakes and sees it still there, she believes she will live.
O. Henry's short story "The Last Leaf" is summarized in 3 sentences:
The story follows two artists, Johnsy and Sue, who live in Greenwich Village. Johnsy falls ill with pneumonia and believes she will die, as the last leaf remains on a vine outside her window. The doctor tells Sue that Johnsy will recover if she wants to live, and Sue tries to distract Johnsy and give her hope by discussing fashion to improve her chance of survival.
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Simian by Monkey Poet (SAMPLE)Burning Eye
Monkey Poet experiences a strange encounter in a San Francisco bar. He is transported to a magical realm where he meets famous poets like Dylan Thomas and Charles Bukowski. They invite him to a poetry reading. At the reading, Monkey Poet shares a controversial poem about shooting a baby, to silence from the group. The piece is a exploration of war and the evolution of the concept of genocide over history told through poetry and music. It references many genocides and mass killings of the 20th century.
1) The story describes a futuristic world where people live isolated underground and rely entirely on a centralized Machine to provide for their needs.
2) The main character, Vashti, receives a call from her son Kuno who wants her to visit him, but she is hesitant to leave her room.
3) Kuno reveals he wants to see the stars and surface of the earth himself, which shocks Vashti as interacting directly with the natural world is contrary to their society's norms. She remains unsure about visiting Kuno.
This document is an excerpt from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It begins with a preface by the translator providing biographical context about Dostoevsky's life experiences that influenced his writing. It then continues with Chapter 1 of the novel, which introduces the main character Raskolnikov and describes him walking through the hot streets of St. Petersburg in a state of mental anguish, deep in troubled thoughts. He arrives at the home of an old widow woman, where he enters her apartment and scans the room, taking note of its furnishings and layout.
This document provides a summary of the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It begins with background on Dostoevsky's life, noting he came from a poor family and found early success with his first work before facing persecution. He was sentenced to death which was later commuted to hard labor, leaving him traumatized. The document outlines the plot of Crime and Punishment, where the main character grapples with whether to commit a violent crime and deals with the consequences. It provides context for understanding Dostoevsky's focus on suffering and cruelty within the legal system in his works.
Fifteen painted cards from a vampire tarotNaman Kumar
The document contains excerpts from 15 cards of a vampire tarot deck. Each card provides a brief story or description. The Fool card introduces a young man who seeks immortality by meeting a vampire in a graveyard. The voice that speaks to him says "This is not life." Other cards include The Magician, which references a man claiming to be 1000 years old, The Priestess featuring a self-proclaimed vampire queen on a talk show, and The Lovers describing a couple found dead together in a coffin with the man more decayed than the woman. The final card, The World, has a vampire telling the listener that vampires are essentially just like humans but colder and deader.
This document is an excerpt from Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "A Scandal in Bohemia". It introduces Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discussing a mysterious note Holmes received requesting a meeting that evening. Through careful examination, Holmes deduces that the note was written by a German man, on paper made in Bohemia. He infers the visitor will arrive shortly to seek Holmes' services and reveal more information.
This document provides an overview of 20th century American literature, focusing on modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. It summarizes key historical context for modernism, characteristics like fragmentation and experimentation. It then highlights several modernist poets like Frost, Williams, Eliot and their works. Next it discusses modernist fiction from Faulkner, Hammett and Hemingway. Finally it covers the Harlem Renaissance, major African American poets and fiction writers like Hughes, Hurston, Wright who contributed new voices during this period.
Philippine Literature (Short Story) - 'The Bread of Salt'Andrea May Malonzo
This summary provides the key details from the short story "The Bread of Salt" by NVM Gonzalez:
The narrator is a 14-year-old boy living with his grandmother in 1958. Each morning he would walk to the bakery with 15 centavos to buy rolls for breakfast, watching the bakers work. He dreamed of the Spanish man's large house near the sea and had feelings for his classmate Aida. He practiced the violin diligently, hoping to earn money to buy a gift for Aida before she left town for Christmas. The story depicts the narrator's youthful longing for love and his dedication to improving himself through music.
Crime and punishment Fédor Mikhaïlovitch DostoïevskiKhaled Leehom
This document is the first chapter of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It introduces the main character, Raskolnikov, a poor former student living in St. Petersburg. On a hot summer evening, he walks nervously through the crowded streets towards an old pawnbroker's apartment. He is deeply in debt and avoids his landlady. Arriving at the apartment, he interacts nervously with the suspicious old pawnbroker woman and pawns his father's old watch for a small sum of money. He inquires casually about the old woman's sister before leaving.
This document provides a summary of the translator's preface to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It describes Dostoyevsky's background, including that he came from a poor but deeply religious family. It details how he was arrested in 1849 for being part of a radical thinking group, was sentenced to death but had his sentence commuted at the last moment, and then spent four years in prison and penal servitude in Siberia. It also notes he suffered from epilepsy for the rest of his life after this ordeal. The summary provides context about Dostoyevsky's life experiences that shaped his writing.
Tracey Emin is preparing for her upcoming exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, where she plans to push boundaries with her sculptures more than ever before. In a wide-ranging interview, Emin discusses feeling constrained in recent years but now wanting to take more risks in her work. She also talks about her success and influences, as well as personal struggles including a recent breakup and health issues. Emin is determined in her art to reclaim some of the boldness of her younger days and feels her best work may still be ahead of her.
The two experimenters hurried to the Gramercy neighborhood in New York City. They arrived at a small park surrounded by iron railings. Outside the railings were crumbling houses that were shells of what was once a wealthy neighborhood. The two men then went to Dawc's apartment, which was meagerly furnished. Dawc found a note from his wife Louise saying she had left him to join a traveling opera company and was not returning. Upon reading the note aloud, Dawc was distraught while the editor was surprised.
Writing Portfolio including creative works of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction as well as nonfiction and informational pieces and lesson planning and curriculum design.
6Lu Xun (1881 - 1936)Diary of a MadmanChineseModernismDrhetttrevannion
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Lu Xun (1881 - 1936)
Diary of a MadmanChineseModernism
"Diary of a Madman" is a famous short story by Lu Xun, who is regarded as a great writer of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun (surname: Lu, and the pen name of Zhou Shuren) was a short story writer, translator, essayist, and literary scholar. Although Lu was educated in the Confucian tradition when he was young, he later received a modern western education; he studied modern medicine in Japan and was exposed to western literature (including English, German, and Russian literatures). In 1918, "Diary of a Madman" was published in New Youth, a magazine of the New Culture Movement that promoted democracy, egalitarianism, vernacular literature, individual freedom, and women's rights. Inspired by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's story of the same title, Lu wrote this story, which is the first western-style story in vernacular Chinese. The cannibalistic society that the madman narrator sees is generally interpreted as a satirical allegory of traditional Chinese society based on Confucianism. Although Lu and his works were associated with leftist ideas (and Mao Zedong favored Lu's works), Lu never joined the Communist Party of China. The English translations of this short story include a version by William A. Lyell, a former professor of Chinese at Stanford University.Consider while reading:What elements of detective fiction does Borges include in "The Garden of Forking Paths"?How does having multiple possible outcomes influence the resolution of the text?How does Borges use the symbolism of the labyrinth?Borges is known for his use of magical realism and his work in the science fiction genre. How does Borges incorporate magical realism into "The Garden of the Forking Paths?" What effect does it create?
Kwon, Kyounghye. (n.d.). Compact Anthology of World Literature: The 17th and 18th Centuries (Part 6). Dahlonega, GA: University of North Georgia Press.
CC-BY-SA.
5
10
THE GARDEN PARTY
License: Public Domain
Katherine Mansfield
And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect
day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a
cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in
early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and
sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants
had been seemed to shine. As for the roses, you could not help feeling they
understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties;
the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. Hundreds, yes, literally
hundreds, had come out in a single night; the green bushes bowed down as
though they had been visited by archangels.
Breakfast was not yet over before the men came to put up the marquee.
"Where do you want the marquee put, mother?"
"My dear child, it's no use asking me. I'm determined to leave everything to
you children this year. Forget I ...
1) The story describes Johnsy, a young woman who is very ill with pneumonia and believes that she will die when the last leaf falls from a vine outside her window.
2) As the leaves fall one by one, Johnsy's health declines, but an old artist named Behrman helps cheer her up and keep fighting.
3) On the last very windy night, surprisingly the last leaf does not fall, and Johnsy decides she wants to live after all and starts recovering.
Please enjoy my novel. If you liked it a lot, I hope you'll go over to Amazon or another ebook retailer and buy it as an ebook. I'm trying a "busker" model....if you like it, in other words, please contribute some money by buying it and that will (hopefully) motivate me to write more novels. Without your support, I'm really not motivated, which is sad, but that's just the way it is.
https://www.amazon.com/Juliet-Sun-Gemma-Nishiyama-ebook/dp/B00BWVXYGS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499778269&sr=8-1&keywords=Juliet+is+the+Sun
This document provides background information on Fyodor Dostoevsky and an overview of the plot of his novel Crime and Punishment. It describes Dostoevsky's impoverished childhood and early success as a writer. It then discusses how in 1849 he was arrested, sentenced to death, and sent to Siberia for his involvement in a radical intellectual group. The introduction provides context for how this experience influenced Dostoevsky and his writing. It concludes by setting up the plot of Crime and Punishment, which follows a former student who is planning to kill a pawnbroker for her money.
Get ready for a delightful blend of travelogue, storytelling, and humour - from the ridiculous to the sublime.
Travel with us to Knossos Palace, Crete, and beyond as we share our tales and experiences through a refreshingly different lens.
A melange of storytelling, travel and humour.
Enjoy the musings of a would-be- professor of ethics.
Follow our loved-up couple on their absurd and very tragic story set in Crete.
Get to know Alex - a college kid trying to survive among the undead in NYC.
Dive into a travelogue about Knossos Palace in Crete.
The document is a summary of the beginning of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". It describes Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, and his friend Mr. Enfield taking their weekly walk, during which Mr. Enfield tells Mr. Utterson a strange story about a man who trampled a young girl and then paid to keep the incident quiet, obtaining the money from a cellar accessed through a mysterious door. The document provides context and setup for the novella's plot.
This document provides a summary of the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It begins with background on Dostoevsky's life, including that he was born into a poor family, showed early promise as a writer, but was arrested in 1849 for being part of a radical intellectual group. He was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to hard labor in Siberia, which had a lasting impact on his writing. The summary then provides a brief overview of the plot of Crime and Punishment, in which the main character Raskolnikov commits a murder to test his theory that some people have the right to transgress moral laws.
This document is the translator's preface to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It provides biographical details about Dostoevsky's life. It explains that he came from a poor family and showed early promise as a writer. However, in 1849 he was arrested for being part of a group discussing banned political ideas. He was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to hard labor in Siberia, which had a lasting impact on him. The preface provides context about Dostoevsky's experiences with imprisonment, epilepsy, and financial difficulties, and how it influenced his writing. It aims to help English readers understand Dostoevsky and his work.
Get ready for a delightful blend of travelogue, storytelling, and humour - from the ridiculous to the sublime.
Travel with us to Knossos Palace, Crete, and beyond as we share our tales and experiences through a refreshingly different lens.
A melange of storytelling, travel and humour.
Enjoy the musings of a would-be- professor of ethics.
Follow our loved-up couple on their absurd and very tragic story set in Crete.
Get to know Alex - a college kid trying to survive among the undead in NYC.
Dive into a travelogue about Knossos Palace in Crete.
This document is an excerpt from the novel Nana by Emile Zola. It describes the scene outside the Theatre des Varietes in Paris on the opening night of a new play. The manager, Bordenave, is excited about the new star, Nana, though he says she cannot sing or act. He believes her beauty will captivate the audience. As more people arrive, curiosity and excitement about Nana grow, with her name spreading through the crowd.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
Fifteen painted cards from a vampire tarotNaman Kumar
The document contains excerpts from 15 cards of a vampire tarot deck. Each card provides a brief story or description. The Fool card introduces a young man who seeks immortality by meeting a vampire in a graveyard. The voice that speaks to him says "This is not life." Other cards include The Magician, which references a man claiming to be 1000 years old, The Priestess featuring a self-proclaimed vampire queen on a talk show, and The Lovers describing a couple found dead together in a coffin with the man more decayed than the woman. The final card, The World, has a vampire telling the listener that vampires are essentially just like humans but colder and deader.
This document is an excerpt from Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "A Scandal in Bohemia". It introduces Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discussing a mysterious note Holmes received requesting a meeting that evening. Through careful examination, Holmes deduces that the note was written by a German man, on paper made in Bohemia. He infers the visitor will arrive shortly to seek Holmes' services and reveal more information.
This document provides an overview of 20th century American literature, focusing on modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. It summarizes key historical context for modernism, characteristics like fragmentation and experimentation. It then highlights several modernist poets like Frost, Williams, Eliot and their works. Next it discusses modernist fiction from Faulkner, Hammett and Hemingway. Finally it covers the Harlem Renaissance, major African American poets and fiction writers like Hughes, Hurston, Wright who contributed new voices during this period.
Philippine Literature (Short Story) - 'The Bread of Salt'Andrea May Malonzo
This summary provides the key details from the short story "The Bread of Salt" by NVM Gonzalez:
The narrator is a 14-year-old boy living with his grandmother in 1958. Each morning he would walk to the bakery with 15 centavos to buy rolls for breakfast, watching the bakers work. He dreamed of the Spanish man's large house near the sea and had feelings for his classmate Aida. He practiced the violin diligently, hoping to earn money to buy a gift for Aida before she left town for Christmas. The story depicts the narrator's youthful longing for love and his dedication to improving himself through music.
Crime and punishment Fédor Mikhaïlovitch DostoïevskiKhaled Leehom
This document is the first chapter of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It introduces the main character, Raskolnikov, a poor former student living in St. Petersburg. On a hot summer evening, he walks nervously through the crowded streets towards an old pawnbroker's apartment. He is deeply in debt and avoids his landlady. Arriving at the apartment, he interacts nervously with the suspicious old pawnbroker woman and pawns his father's old watch for a small sum of money. He inquires casually about the old woman's sister before leaving.
This document provides a summary of the translator's preface to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It describes Dostoyevsky's background, including that he came from a poor but deeply religious family. It details how he was arrested in 1849 for being part of a radical thinking group, was sentenced to death but had his sentence commuted at the last moment, and then spent four years in prison and penal servitude in Siberia. It also notes he suffered from epilepsy for the rest of his life after this ordeal. The summary provides context about Dostoyevsky's life experiences that shaped his writing.
Tracey Emin is preparing for her upcoming exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, where she plans to push boundaries with her sculptures more than ever before. In a wide-ranging interview, Emin discusses feeling constrained in recent years but now wanting to take more risks in her work. She also talks about her success and influences, as well as personal struggles including a recent breakup and health issues. Emin is determined in her art to reclaim some of the boldness of her younger days and feels her best work may still be ahead of her.
The two experimenters hurried to the Gramercy neighborhood in New York City. They arrived at a small park surrounded by iron railings. Outside the railings were crumbling houses that were shells of what was once a wealthy neighborhood. The two men then went to Dawc's apartment, which was meagerly furnished. Dawc found a note from his wife Louise saying she had left him to join a traveling opera company and was not returning. Upon reading the note aloud, Dawc was distraught while the editor was surprised.
Writing Portfolio including creative works of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction as well as nonfiction and informational pieces and lesson planning and curriculum design.
6Lu Xun (1881 - 1936)Diary of a MadmanChineseModernismDrhetttrevannion
6
Lu Xun (1881 - 1936)
Diary of a MadmanChineseModernism
"Diary of a Madman" is a famous short story by Lu Xun, who is regarded as a great writer of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun (surname: Lu, and the pen name of Zhou Shuren) was a short story writer, translator, essayist, and literary scholar. Although Lu was educated in the Confucian tradition when he was young, he later received a modern western education; he studied modern medicine in Japan and was exposed to western literature (including English, German, and Russian literatures). In 1918, "Diary of a Madman" was published in New Youth, a magazine of the New Culture Movement that promoted democracy, egalitarianism, vernacular literature, individual freedom, and women's rights. Inspired by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's story of the same title, Lu wrote this story, which is the first western-style story in vernacular Chinese. The cannibalistic society that the madman narrator sees is generally interpreted as a satirical allegory of traditional Chinese society based on Confucianism. Although Lu and his works were associated with leftist ideas (and Mao Zedong favored Lu's works), Lu never joined the Communist Party of China. The English translations of this short story include a version by William A. Lyell, a former professor of Chinese at Stanford University.Consider while reading:What elements of detective fiction does Borges include in "The Garden of Forking Paths"?How does having multiple possible outcomes influence the resolution of the text?How does Borges use the symbolism of the labyrinth?Borges is known for his use of magical realism and his work in the science fiction genre. How does Borges incorporate magical realism into "The Garden of the Forking Paths?" What effect does it create?
Kwon, Kyounghye. (n.d.). Compact Anthology of World Literature: The 17th and 18th Centuries (Part 6). Dahlonega, GA: University of North Georgia Press.
CC-BY-SA.
5
10
THE GARDEN PARTY
License: Public Domain
Katherine Mansfield
And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect
day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a
cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in
early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and
sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants
had been seemed to shine. As for the roses, you could not help feeling they
understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties;
the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. Hundreds, yes, literally
hundreds, had come out in a single night; the green bushes bowed down as
though they had been visited by archangels.
Breakfast was not yet over before the men came to put up the marquee.
"Where do you want the marquee put, mother?"
"My dear child, it's no use asking me. I'm determined to leave everything to
you children this year. Forget I ...
1) The story describes Johnsy, a young woman who is very ill with pneumonia and believes that she will die when the last leaf falls from a vine outside her window.
2) As the leaves fall one by one, Johnsy's health declines, but an old artist named Behrman helps cheer her up and keep fighting.
3) On the last very windy night, surprisingly the last leaf does not fall, and Johnsy decides she wants to live after all and starts recovering.
Please enjoy my novel. If you liked it a lot, I hope you'll go over to Amazon or another ebook retailer and buy it as an ebook. I'm trying a "busker" model....if you like it, in other words, please contribute some money by buying it and that will (hopefully) motivate me to write more novels. Without your support, I'm really not motivated, which is sad, but that's just the way it is.
https://www.amazon.com/Juliet-Sun-Gemma-Nishiyama-ebook/dp/B00BWVXYGS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499778269&sr=8-1&keywords=Juliet+is+the+Sun
This document provides background information on Fyodor Dostoevsky and an overview of the plot of his novel Crime and Punishment. It describes Dostoevsky's impoverished childhood and early success as a writer. It then discusses how in 1849 he was arrested, sentenced to death, and sent to Siberia for his involvement in a radical intellectual group. The introduction provides context for how this experience influenced Dostoevsky and his writing. It concludes by setting up the plot of Crime and Punishment, which follows a former student who is planning to kill a pawnbroker for her money.
Get ready for a delightful blend of travelogue, storytelling, and humour - from the ridiculous to the sublime.
Travel with us to Knossos Palace, Crete, and beyond as we share our tales and experiences through a refreshingly different lens.
A melange of storytelling, travel and humour.
Enjoy the musings of a would-be- professor of ethics.
Follow our loved-up couple on their absurd and very tragic story set in Crete.
Get to know Alex - a college kid trying to survive among the undead in NYC.
Dive into a travelogue about Knossos Palace in Crete.
The document is a summary of the beginning of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". It describes Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, and his friend Mr. Enfield taking their weekly walk, during which Mr. Enfield tells Mr. Utterson a strange story about a man who trampled a young girl and then paid to keep the incident quiet, obtaining the money from a cellar accessed through a mysterious door. The document provides context and setup for the novella's plot.
This document provides a summary of the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It begins with background on Dostoevsky's life, including that he was born into a poor family, showed early promise as a writer, but was arrested in 1849 for being part of a radical intellectual group. He was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to hard labor in Siberia, which had a lasting impact on his writing. The summary then provides a brief overview of the plot of Crime and Punishment, in which the main character Raskolnikov commits a murder to test his theory that some people have the right to transgress moral laws.
This document is the translator's preface to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It provides biographical details about Dostoevsky's life. It explains that he came from a poor family and showed early promise as a writer. However, in 1849 he was arrested for being part of a group discussing banned political ideas. He was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to hard labor in Siberia, which had a lasting impact on him. The preface provides context about Dostoevsky's experiences with imprisonment, epilepsy, and financial difficulties, and how it influenced his writing. It aims to help English readers understand Dostoevsky and his work.
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History & origin of Short story.pptx
1.
2. What is a short story ?
A short narrative in prose,
3. Look at the opening of “The
Last Leaf”
“In a little district west of Washington Square the
streets have run crazy and broken themselves into
small strips called "places." These "places" make
strange angles and curves. One Street crosses
itself a time or two. An artist once discovered a
valuable possibility in this street. Suppose a
collector with a bill for paints, paper and canvas
should, in traversing this route, suddenly meet
himself coming back, without a cent having been
paid on account!”
4. It is prose . In fact, every inch a
prose.
You read it , will you deny it ?
24. In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called "places." These "places" make strange angles and curves. One Street crosses itself a time or two. An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street. Suppose a collector with a bill for paints, paper and canvas should, in traversing this route, suddenly meet
himself coming back, without a cent having been paid on account!
So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents. Then they imported some pewter mugs and a chafing dish or two from Sixth Avenue, and became a "colony."
At the top of a squatty, three-story brick Sue and Johnsy had their studio. "Johnsy" was familiar for Joanna. One was from Maine; the other from California. They had met at the table d'hôte of an Eighth Street "Delmonico's," and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that the joint studio resulted.
That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the colony, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Over on the east side this ravager strode boldly, smiting his victims by scores, but his feet trod slowly through the maze of the narrow and moss-grown "places."
Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman. A mite of a little woman with blood thinned by California zephyrs was hardly fair game for the red-fisted, short-breathed old duffer. But Johnsy he smote; and she lay, scarcely moving, on her painted iron bedstead, looking through the small Dutch window-panes at the blank side of the next brick house.
One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a shaggy, gray eyebrow.
"She has one chance in - let us say, ten," he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer. " And that chance is for her to want to live. This way people have of lining-u on the side of the undertaker makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly. Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind?"
"She - she wanted to paint the Bay of Naples some day." said Sue.
"Paint? - bosh! Has she anything on her mind worth thinking twice - a man for instance?"
"A man?" said Sue, with a jew's-harp twang in her voice. "Is a man worth - but, no, doctor; there is nothing of the kind."
"Well, it is the weakness, then," said the doctor. "I will do all that science, so far as it may filter through my efforts, can accomplish. But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines. If you will get her to ask one question about the new winter styles in cloak sleeves I will promise you a one-in-
five chance for her, instead of one in ten."
After the doctor had gone Sue went into the workroom and cried a Japanese napkin to a pulp. Then she swaggered into Johnsy's room with her drawing board, whistling ragtime.
Johnsy lay, scarcely making a ripple under the bedclothes, with her face toward the window. Sue stopped whistling, thinking she was asleep.
She arranged her board and began a pen-and-ink drawing to illustrate a magazine story. Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
As Sue was sketching a pair of elegant horseshow riding trousers and a monocle of the figure of the hero, an Idaho cowboy, she heard a low sound, several times repeated. She went quickly to the bedside.
Johnsy's eyes were open wide. She was looking out the window and counting - counting backward.
"Twelve," she said, and little later "eleven"; and then "ten," and "nine"; and then "eight" and "seven", almost together.
Sue look solicitously out of the window. What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old, old ivy vine, gnarled and decayed at the roots, climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath of autumn had stricken its leaves from the vine until its skeleton branches clung, almost bare, to the
crumbling bricks.
"What is it, dear?" asked Sue.
"Six," said Johnsy, in almost a whisper. "They're falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred. It made my head ache to count th em. But now it's easy. There goes another one. There are only five left now."
"Five what, dear? Tell your Sudie."
"Leaves. On the ivy vine. When the last one falls I must go, too. I've known that for three days. Didn't the doctor tell you?"
"Oh, I never heard of such nonsense," complained Sue, with magnificent scorn. "What have old ivy leaves to do with your getting well? And you used to love that vine so, you naughty girl. Don't be a goosey. Why, the doctor told me this morning that your chances for getting well real soon were - let's see exactly what he said - he said the chances were ten to one! Why, that's almost
as good a chance as we have in New York when we ride on the street cars or walk past a new building. Try to take some broth now, and let Sudie go back to her drawing, so she can sell the editor man with it, and buy port wine for her sick child, and pork chops for her greedy self."
"You needn't get any more wine," said Johnsy, keeping her eyes fixed out the window. "There goes another. No, I don't want any broth. That leaves just four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark. Then I'll go, too."
"Johnsy, dear," said Sue, bending over her, "will you promise me to keep your eyes closed, and not look out the window until I am done working? I must hand those drawings in by to-morrow. I need the light, or I would draw the shade down."
"Couldn't you draw in the other room?" asked Johnsy, coldly.
"I'd rather be here by you," said Sue. "Beside, I don't want you to keep looking at those silly ivy leaves."
"Tell me as soon as you have finished," said Johnsy, closing her eyes, and lying white and still as fallen statue, "because I want to see the last one fall. I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of thinking. I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down, down, just like one of those poor, tired leaves."
"Try to sleep," said Sue. "I must call Behrman up to be my model for the old hermit miner. I'll not be gone a minute. Don't try to move 'til I come back."
Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. He was past sixty and had a Michael Angelo's Moses beard curling down from the head of a satyr along with the body of an imp. Behrman was a failure in art. Forty years he had wielded the brush without getting near enough to touch the hem of his Mistress's robe. He had been always about to paint a
masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. For several years he had painted nothing except now and then a daub in the line of commerce or advertising. He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artists in the colony who could not pay the price of a professional. He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece. For the rest he was a fierce little old man,
who scoffed terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as especial mastiff-in-waiting to protect the two young artists in the studio above.
Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of juniper berries in his dimly lighted den below. In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece. She told him of Johnsy's fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold upon the world grew
weaker.
Old Behrman, with his red eyes plainly streaming, shouted his contempt and derision for such idiotic imaginings.
"Vass!" he cried. "Is dere people in de world mit der foolishness to die because leafs dey drop off from a confounded vine? I haf not heard of such a thing. No, I will not bose as a model for your fool hermit-dunderhead. Vy do you allow dot silly pusiness to come in der brain of her? Ach, dot poor leetle Miss Yohnsy."
"She is very ill and weak," said Sue, "and the fever has left her mind morbid and full of strange fancies. Very well, Mr. Behrman, if you do not care to pose for me, you needn't. But I think you are a horrid old - old flibbertigibbet."
"You are just like a woman!" yelled Behrman. "Who said I will not bose? Go on. I come mit you. For half an hour I haf peen trying to say dot I am ready to bose. Gott! dis is not any blace in which one so goot as Miss Yohnsy shall lie sick. Some day I vill baint a masterpiece, and ve shall all go away. Gott! yes."
Johnsy was sleeping when they went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade down to the window-sill, and motioned Behrman into the other room. In there they peered out the window fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they looked at each other for a moment without speaking. A persistent, cold rain was falling, mingled with snow. Behrman, in his old blue shirt, took his seat as the hermit miner
on an upturned kettle for a rock.
When Sue awoke from an hour's sleep the next morning she found Johnsy with dull, wide-open eyes staring at the drawn green shade.
"Pull it up; I want to see," she ordered, in a whisper.
Wearily Sue obeyed.
But, lo! after the beating rain and fierce gusts of wind that had endured through the livelong night, there yet stood out against the brick wall one ivy leaf. It was the last one on the vine. Still dark green near its stem, with its serrated edges tinted with the yellow of dissolution and decay, it hung bravely from the branch some twenty feet above the ground.
"It is the last one," said Johnsy. "I thought it would surely fall during the night. I heard the wind. It will fall to-day, and I shall die at the same time."
"Dear, dear!" said Sue, leaning her worn face down to the pillow, "think of me, if you won't think of yourself. What would I do?"
But Johnsy did not answer. The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey. The fancy seemed to possess her more strongly as one by one the ties that bound her to friendship and to earth were loosed.
The day wore away, and even through the twilight they could see the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem against the wall. And then, with the coming of the night the north wind was again loosed, while the rain still beat against the windows and pattered down from the low Dutch eaves.
When it was light enough Johnsy, the merciless, commanded that the shade be raised.
The ivy leaf was still there.
Johnsy lay for a long time looking at it. And then she called to Sue, who was stirring her chicken broth over the gas stove.
"I've been a bad girl, Sudie," said Johnsy. "Something has made that last leaf stay there to show me how wicked I was. It is a sin to want to die. You may bring a me a little broth now, and some milk with a little port in it, and - no; bring me a hand-mirror first, and then pack some pillows about me, and I will sit up and watch you cook."
And hour later she said:
"Sudie, some day I hope to paint the Bay of Naples."
The doctor came in the afternoon, and Sue had an excuse to go into the hallway as he left.
"Even chances," said the doctor, taking Sue's thin, shaking hand in his. "With good nursing you'll win." And now I must see another case I have downstairs. Behrman, his name is - some kind of an artist, I believe. Pneumonia, too. He is an old, weak man, and the attack is acute. There is no hope for him; but he goes to the hospital to-day to be made more comfortable."
The next day the doctor said to Sue: "She's out of danger. You won. Nutrition and care now - that's all."
And that afternoon Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay, contentedly knitting a very blue and very useless woollen shoulder scarf, and put one arm around her, pillows and all.
"I have something to tell you, white mouse," she said. "Mr. Behrman died of pneumonia to-day in the hospital. He was ill only two days. The janitor found him the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain. His shoes and clothing were wet through and icy cold. They couldn't imagine where he had been on such a dreadful night. And then they found a lantern,
still lighted, and a ladder that had been dragged from its place, and some scattered brushes, and a palette with green and yellow colors mixed on it, and - look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall. Didn't you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it's Behrman's masterpiece - he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell."
25. I have made a miniature
version of “The Last Leaf”.
69. 9. A short story should create a single impression.
10. It should be highly economical with every word, all
characters, dialogue and description designed to develop
single predesigned effect.
11. Most short stories revolve around a single incident,
character or period of time,
12. Should be capable of being read at one sitting.
13. Opening sentence should initiate the predetermined or
predesigned effect.
14. Once climax reached, the story should end with minimal
resolution.
15. Character should only be developed to the extent
required by the story.