Writer: Kate Chopin (original name: Katherine O'Flaherty) (1851-1904) Characters: Mrs. Baroda Gaston, Mrs. Baroda's husband Gouvernail, Gaston's college friend Theme: inner conflict between unrestrained desire and social limitations of a respectable woman Summary plus Interpretation of the Story "A Respectable Woman" is a short story written by an American writer Kate Chopin. The story highlights... Continue Reading →
Victory on Everest
(By James Ramsey Ullman from Adventures in Appreciation, Walter Loban, Dorothy Holmstrom and Luella B. Cook, Eds. 1953) The Gist of the Essay This essay is a thrilling account of how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa finally reached the peak of the Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 at 11:30 a.m. Hillary from New... Continue Reading →
Neighbours
Writer: Tom Winton, full name Timothy John Winton (b. 1960) Characters: The young couple Macedonian family Polish widower The neighborhood little boy The neighborhood women The midwife Theme: Multiculturalism; establishment of friendly relationship among neighbours despite cultural and linguistic barriers. Summary of the story The short story "Neighbours" by an Australian writer Tom Winton raises... Continue Reading →
The Gift in Wartime
I offer you rosesBuried in your new graveI offer you my wedding gownTo cover your tomb still green with grass. You give me medalsTogether with silver starsAnd the yellow pips on your badgeUnused and still shining. I offer you my youthThe days we were still in loveMy youth died awayWhen they told me the bad... Continue Reading →
Who are you, little i?
who are you, little i(five or six years old)peering from some highwindow; at the goldof November sunset(and feeling: that if dayhas to become nightthis is a beautiful way) -e.e. cummings Summary plus Interpretation of the Poem The poem "Who are you, little i?" by E.E. Cummings, a 20th century American poet, is an unconventionally... Continue Reading →
All the World’s a Stage
All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.Then the whining school-boy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And... Continue Reading →
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