Fiction Study Guide

A collection of stories written after the plague in Florence, Italy. In order to leave all of the death of the city behind, a group of ten young men and women decide to travel to the country side for ten days to entertain themselves with different stories each day. The stories themselves are kinda impersonal. The tales contain coincidence, luck, simplified characterization. The characters are an outline of real people. These stories are more plot driven instead of character driven.

"The Decameron Selected Tales" By: Giovanni Boccaccio

Story about a kid who thought he was going to die because his temperature was above 42 degrees. Kid didn't realize that the 42 degrees was celsius not fearenheit. Once he knows that he's going to be okay he returns back to normal.

A Day's Wait by Ernest Hemingway.

Story about sherlock holmes trying to retrieve a naughty picture of the king of bohemia from a woman.

A Scandal in Bohemia by Conan Doyle

Story about a solider boy kinda sexualizing a panther in the desert, but he only does this in a way to deescalate the situation for him. He names the panther after his old jealous girlfriend (Mignonne).

A passion in the desert by Honore de balzac.

"As I said these words, I perceived in the gloom a figure which stole from behind a clump of trees near me; I stood fixed, gazing intently: I could not be mistaken. A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy demon to whom I had given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than I became convinced of its truth; my teeth chattered, and I was forced to lean against a tree for support."

After not seeing his monster for a while, and after his brothers death, Victor finally sees his monster and is horrified, because of course of the monsters appearance and because he believes that the monster killed his brother (which he did). Frankenstein by mary shelley

"For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious." "Alexandra drew her shawl closer about her and stood leaning against the frame of the mill, looking at the stars which glittered so keenly through the frosty autumn air. She always loved to watch them, to think of their vastness and distance, and of their ordered march. It fortified her to reflect upon the great operations of nature, and when she thought of the law that lay behind them, she felt a sense of personal security." "She had never known before how much the country meant to her. She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere..."

Alexandra feels connected to land (the divide), she feels like she can change her families fate, and tame the wild land because she believes that her heart is in the land and she belongs there. O'Pioneers! By willa cather.

"Frank was the only one, Alexandra told herself, for whom anything could be done. He had been less in the wrong than any of them, and he was paying the heaviest penalty. She often felt that she herself had been more to blame than poor Frank. From the time the Shabatas had first moved to the neighboring farm, she had omitted no opportunity of throwing Marie and Emil together. Because she knew frank was surly about doing little things to help his wife." "If Marie had been unmarried,-oh, yes! Then she would have kept her eyes open. But the mere fact that she was Shabata's wife, for Alexandra, settled everything." "Emil was a good boy, and only bad boys ran after married women."

Alexandra pitys frank not emil or maire. She doesn't understand why there were in love with eachother since marie was married, and men don't go after married women. It didn't make sense to Alexandra. So she blamed herself for putting them together (she always sent him over to help marie with house chores or something since frank wouldn't do them). Marie is the one in a relationship not emil, so Alexandra does not pity marie at all. Adultery=Marie Good boy=Emil O'Pioneers! by willa cather.

The story about a guy loosing his arm while sailing because it got caught in the fishing net, and his brother just cut off his arm because he didn't want to loose the fish because they would loose money. Then he wanted to keep his arm so he could it to show it off to people.

At Sea by Guy De Maupassant.

"He stepped into the panties and fastened the brassiere, then looked through the closet for an outfit. He put on a black and white checkered skirt and tried to zip it up. He put on a burgundy blouse that buttoned up the front.. He considered her shoes, but understood they would not fit. For a long time he looked out the living room window from behind the curtain. Then he returned to the bedroom and put everything away."

Bill dressing in drag for some reason. The pills he took could be making him act that way, but honestly who knows. Neighbors by Raymond Carver

Story about a bunch of people escaping from the Franco-Prussian war. The group consists of many high class individuals; however, the main focus of the story is on a prostitute.

Boule de suif by Guy de Maupassant.

"'And Anthony,' she thought, 'he can do this without caring for what I feel. O, he can forget everything: how he used to say he loved me-how he used to take my hand in his as we walked-how he used to stand near me in the evenings for the sake of looking into my eyes.' 'Oh, it is cruel, it is cruel!' She burst out again aloud, as all those love-moments in the past returned upon her. Then the tears gushed forth, she threw herself on her knees by the bed, and sobbed bitterly." "But she loves the scene the better for its sadness; there is some pity in it. It is not like that hard unfeeling happiness of lovers, flaunting in the eyes of misery." (before this scene she is distributing the sadness of night) "What were out little Tina and her trouble in this mighty torrent, rushing from one awful unknown to another? Lighter than the smallest centre of quivering life in the water-drop, hidden and uncared for as the pulse of anguish in the breast of the tiniest bird that has fluttered down to its nest with the long-sought food, and has found the nest torn and empty."

Caterina's loneliness. Tina was an orphan adopted from italy but she's not really apart of the family, they don't call them her daughter or her servant, she's just there. Because of that Tina doesn't know her self worth. Tina is naive, uncultivated (has natural beauty), and she's heartbroken over the fact that my dude wybrow (Anthony) won't truly love her the way she loves him. She has a breakdown, total loss of self esteem, self loathing, sense of romantic non-viability (I'm so little, so plain, I never could have gotten together with the likes of him). Mr. Gilfils love story by george eliot

"...I have myself told him that Miss Thorpe is engaged. He knows what he is about, and must be his own master." "No, he does not know what he is about," Cried Catherine; "He does not know the pain he is giving my brother. Not that James has ever told me so, but I am sure he is very uncomfortable." "And are you sure it is my brother's doing?" "yes, very sure" "Is it my brother's attentions to Miss Thorpe, or Miss Thorpe's admission of them, that gives the pain?" "Is not it the same thing?" "I think Mr. Morland would acknowledge a difference. No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment." Catherine blushed for her friend and said "Isabella is wrong. But I am sure she cannot mean to torment, for she is very much attached to my brother. She has been in love with him ever since they firs tmet, and while my fathers consent was uncertain, she fretted herself almost into a fever. You know she must be attached to him." "I understand she is in love with james and flirts with frederick" "Oh! no, not flirts. A woman in love with on man cannot flirt with another."

Catherine and Henry debate about henrys brother the captin, and his flirting with Catherines fiance Isabella. Henry is like I know you are worried about your brother, but your girl Isasbella is flirting too, so whose fault is it really? The captain is not engaged to anyone. Catherine is a bit mad at him because at this point in the story she is still friends with Isabella. Northanger abbey by jane austen

"This will not do," said Catherine; "I cannot submit to this. I must run after Miss Tilney directly and set her right." Isabella, however, caught hold of one hand; Thorpe of the other; and remonstrances poured in from all three. Even James was quite angry. When everything was settled, when Miss Tilney herself said that Tuesday would suit her as well, it was quite ridiculous, quite absurd to make any further objection." "I do not care. Mr. Thorpe had no business to invent any such message. If I had thought it right to put if off, I could have spoken to miss tilney myself. This is only doing it in a ruder way; and how do I know that mr. thorpe has-he may be mistaken again perhaps; he led me into one act of rudeness by his mistake on friday. Let me go, mr. thorpe; Isabella, do not hold me" "...I will go after them. It does not signify talking. If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricking into it." "Away walked Catherine in great agitation....It was painful to her to disappoint and displease them, particularly to displease her brother; but she could not repent her resistance." "She had not been withstanding them on selfish principles alone, she had not consulted merely her own gratification; that might have been ensured in some degree by the excursion itself, by seeing Blaize Castle; no, she had attended to what was due to others, and to her own character in their opinion. Her conviction of being right however was not enough to restore her composure, till she had spoken to Miss Tilney she could not be at ease; and quickening her pace when she got clear of the Crescent, she almost ran over the remaining ground till she gained the top of Milsom-street."

Catherine's moralizing (the issues of what is right or wrong). She thinks that its wrong that Thorpe spoke on her behalf (without her permission), and that he postponed her plans with henry and his sister (the tilneys). The asscuse he made up was that Catherine told him to tell Miss Tilney that she has forgotten a prior engagement she had with her friends. Northanger Abbey by jane austen

. "Cesar frantic with grief himself, his own eyes still swollen with crying, was moved at the sight of this woman weeping for his father and the little boy defending the mother. He felt almost overwhelmed with emotion and in order to keep from breaking down himself, started to speak" "He went on, assuming she was hearing it all and forgetting no detail, omitting not the smallest incident in a painstaking, plodding peasant way." "Hautot junior looked at his half brother with a mixture of emotions, all deeply painful." "...She cried out: "Oh don't go! Please!...And so Cesar, obedient as always, sat down again."

Cesar is a good son, he is very ordinary, devoted, conforming, he speaks in formulas, he is detached and robot like. He is not a dumb character but he is a cog in the machine. He is an average man. Description of Cesar from Hautot and son by Guy de Mapassant

"...Monsieur and Madame Loiseau, wholesale wine merchants..." "...member of a superior class, sat Monsieur Carre-Lamadon, a man of considerable substance, well established in the cotton trade, proprietor of three spinning mills..." he has a wife madame carre-lamadon. "...the comte and the comtesse Hubert de breville, were descended from one of the most ancient and noble families of Normandy." "...two nuns, telling their rosaries and muttering paternosters and aves...one was elderly...the other, puny and sickly looking..." "The man, Cornudet, was a well known local democrat and the terror of all respectable people." "The woman, one of those usually known as a good time girl, was famous for the premature portliness which has had earned her the nickname boule de suif. Small, round as a barrel, fat as butter."

Character descriptions from the story boule de suif by guy de maupassant the story features lower class characters but none as lower class as boule de suif. This story features characters that are like a cross section of french society.

Supreme beauty (super human) light vs dark, she is fair (spiritual=light) Like a painting Victor has a holy attachment to her.

Characteristics of Elizabeth

Story about a man that loves a pretty married woman, and he wants to sleep with her/be with her and he does all this stuff to win her over but its not good enough for her she needs more. So she tells him that if he kills this boar for her, she will be with him. He's like cool. He does it, then they sleep together be he's so exhausted from hunting the bird that he falls asleep.

Cockcrow by guy de maupassant

He then asked her, whether, if he took her to wife, she would study to comply with his wishes, and be not wroth, no matter what he might say or do, and be obedient, with not a few other questions of a like sort: hand, led her forth, and before the eyes of all his company, and as many other fold as were there, caused her to strip naked, and let bring the garments that he had had fashioned for her, and had her forthwith arrayed therein, and upon her unkempt head let set a crown; and then, while all wondered: "Gentlemen," quoth he, "this is she whom I purpose to make my wife, so she be minded to have me for husband."

Dude bro asking the chick to marry him and to be faithful to him. Story 10.10 from the decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

But, soon after, a strange humour took possession of him, to wit, to put her patience to the proof by prolonged and intolerable hard usage; wherefore he began by afflicting her with his gibes, putting on a vexed air, and telling her that his vassals were most sorely dissatisfied.

Dude pretended that his subjects were upset that she had a girl instead of a boy (even though they were happy with the girl and so was he). Story 10.10 from the decameron by giovanni Boccaccio

"Griselda," said he, "'tis now time that thou see the reward of thy long patience, and that those, who have deemed me cruel and unjust and insensate, should know that what I did was done of purpose aforethought, for that I was minded to give both thee and them a lesson, that thou mightst learn to be a wife, and they in like manner might learn how to take and keep a wife, and that I might beget me perpetual peace with thee for the rest of my life; whereof being in great fear, when I came to take a wife, lest I should be disappointed, I therefore, to put teh matter to the proof, did, and how sorely thou knowest, harass and afflict thee. And since I never knew thee either by deed or by word to deviate from my will, I now, deeming myself to have of thee that assurance of happiness which I desired, amd minded to restore to thee at once all that, step by step, I took from thee, and by extremity of joy to compensate the tribulation that I inflicted on thee. Receive, then this girl whom thou supposest to be my bride and her brother with glad hart as thy children and mine. These are they whom by thee and many another it has long been supposed that I did ruthlessly to death, and I am thy husband that loves thee more dearly than aught else, deeming that other there is none that has the like good cause to be well content with his wife.

Dude reveals why he's been hurting the girl. Story 10.10 from the decameron by giovanni boccaccio.

"Don't be cross, Emil. Only-Ivar's right about wild things. They're too happy to kill. You can tell just how they felt when they flew up. They were scared, but they didn't really think anything could hurt them. No, we won't do that any more." "All right," Emil assented. "I'm sorry, I made you feel bad." As he looked down into her tearful eyes, there was a curious, sharp young bitterness in his own." "Carl watched them as they moved slowly down the draw. They had not seen him at all. He had not overheard much of their dialogue, but he felt the import of it. It made him, somehow, unreasonably mounful to find two young things abroad in the pasture in the early morning. He decided that he needed his breakfast."

Emil and Marie are duck hunting, but they are also flirting and falling in love with each other. Carl sees them. Marie doens't like that Emil killed the duck even though she asked to go hunting. O'Pioneers by willa cather.

Story about a waitress serving a food to a fat guy.

Fat by raymond Carver

"...when I learned that you, of your grace, were mined to breakfast with me, having respect to your high dignity and desert...I judged him meet food for you, and so you have had him roasted on the trencher this morning." -Federigo

Federigo telling the lady why she can't have his falcon, because they ate it. Story 5.9 from the decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Story about a wrestler named Jack who is going to blow his match on purpose in order win the 50 grand he betted against himself (or John betted against him for him).

Fifty grand By ernest hemingway.

"Maynard was almost angry with himself for feeling happy while Tina's mind and body were still trembling on the verge of irrecoverable decline; but the new delight of acting as her guardian angel, of being with her every hour of the day, of devising everything for her comfort, of watching for a ray of returning interest in her eyes, was too absorbing to leave room for alarm or regret." "Maynard could not help hurrying towards her, putting his arm round her, and leaning down to kiss her hair. She nestled to him, and put up her little mouth to be kissed."

Gilfil (maynard) treats her like a child, which makes Tina dependent on him, and that's not okay and the novel clearly doesn't believe that its okay, because Tina dies during child birth shortly after the two get together. Mr. Gilfils love story by george eliot

"'Tina, my loved one, you would never have done it. God saw your whole heart; He knows you would never harm a living thing. He watches over His children, and will not let them do things they would pray with their whole hearts not to do. It was the angry thought of a moment, and He forgives you.'" "'No, my Tina,' answered Maynard slowly, waiting a little between each sentence; 'we mean to do wicked things that we never could do, just as we mean to do good or clever things that we never could do. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better than we are. And God sees us as we are altogether, not in separate feelings or actions, as our fellow-men see us. We are always doing each other injustice, and thinking better or worse of each other than we deserve, because we only hear and see separate words and actions. We don't see each other's whole nature. But God sees that you could not have committed that crime.'" "'No, my Tina; the faults has not all been yours; he was wrong; he gave you provocation. And wrong makes wrong. When people use us ill, we can hardly help having ill feeling towards them. But that second wrong is more excusable. I am more sinful than you, Tina; I have often had very bad feelings towards Captain Wybrow; and if he had provoked me as he did you, I should perhaps have done something more wicked.'" "'My Tina, we have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves, we should not judge each other harshly. Sir Christopher himself has felt, since this trouble came upon him, that he has been too server and obstinate." "In this way-in these broken confessions and answering words of comfort-the hours wore on, from the deep black night to the chill early twilight, and form early twilight to the first yellow streak of morning parting the purple cloud. Mr. Gilfil felt as if in the long hours of that night the bond that united his love forever and alone to Caterina had acquired fresh strength and sanctity."

Gilfil is comforting Tina because the day wybrow died from a heart attack she had planned to kill him. Gilfil is basically just telling Tina that she would have never had the heart to kill wybrow. Mr. Gilfil's love story by george eliot

Hautot goes hunting, has a horrible accident when his gun misfires, and he dies. But not without telling his son that since his son's mother had died, seven years before, he had taken up with a woman and his father wants his son to tell her what happened and to take care of her. He dies. The son goes to the woman. She is naturally very upset, but she arranges that the son takes the father's place at her table every Thursday at noon.

Hautot and son by Guy de Mapassant.

By which answer Gualtieri was well pleased, witting that she was in no degree puffed up with pride by his, or any other's, honourable entreatment of her.

He is surprised that she is not upset or mad at him (so am I my dude), and he's like wow she's a good woman. Story 10.10 from the decameron by giovanni boccaccio.

"There is but one thing that I cannot understand. I see that she has had designs on Captin Tilney, which have not succeeded; but I do not understand what Captain Tilney has been about all this time. Why should he pay her such attentions as to make her quarrel with my brother, and then fly off himself?" "I have very little to say for Frederick's motives, such as I beleive them to have been. He has his vanities as well as Miss thorpe, and the chief difference is that having a stronger head, they have not yet injured himself. If the effect of his behaviour does not justify him with you, we had better not seek after the cause." "Then you do not suppose he ever really cared about her?" "I am persuaded that he never did." "And only made believe to do so for mischief's sake?" Henry bowed his assent. "Well, then, I must say that I do not like him at all. Though it has turned out so well for us, I do not like him at all. As it happens, there is no great harm done, becuase I do not think Isabella has any heart to lose. But, suppose he had made her very much in love with him?" "But we must first suppose Isabella to have had a heart to lose,-consequently to have been a very different creature; and, in that case, she would have met with very different treatment." "It is very right that you should stand by your brother" "And if you would stand by yours, you would not be much distressed by the disappointment of miss thorpe. But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasoning's of family partiality (bias) or a desire for revenge."

Henry and Catherine debating about her brother, captain tinley, and isabella again. Northanger Abbey by jane austen.

"So now it was all over, he thought. So now he would never have a chance to finish it. So this was the way it ended in a bickering over a drink." "For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obsessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it. Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now." "'I wish we'd never come,' the woman said." "'Your bloody money,' he said. 'That's not fair,' she said. 'It was always yours as much as mine...' 'You said you loved it' he said. 'I did when you were all right,''

Henry's shifting attitudes. Reflecting over his life. Regretting not writing the stuff he wanted to write about, realizing that maybe he couldn't properly write about the stuff he wanted. He regrets his wasted potential. Sometimes he blames himself for his why he never wrote or he blames his wife for giving him too comfy of a lifestyle. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway.

"...as he looked and saw her well known pleasant smile, he felt death come again." "So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear." "The one experience that he had never had he was not going to spoil now."

Him blaming her again, hurting her emotionally. He''s going to die he knows but he doesn't know how to feel about it. There was so much he didn't do. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway.

"In eleven long years John Bergson had made but little impression upon the wild land he had come to tame. It was still a wild thing that had its ugly moods; and no one knew when they were likely to come, or why." "He knew every ridge and draw and gully between him and the horizon. To the south, his plowed fields; to the east, the sod stables, the cattle corral, the pond-and then the grass." "But this land was an enigma (mysterious). It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces. He had an idea that no one understood how to farm it properly, and this he often discussed with Alexandra."

How Alexandra's father, John, feels about the land. It's wild, untamed, and it can never be tamed no matter how hard you try. O' Pioneers! by willa cather

"It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we saw every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed forever-that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished, and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard. These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences. Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connexion? and why should I describe a sorrow which all have felt, and than a necessity; and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished. My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest, and learn to think ourselves fortunate, whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized."

How Victor says he feels about his mothers death, but if we look at how the story of Frankenstein plays out we can see that this dude was obviously super affected by it. It is possibly a reason why he becomes obsessed with life and death right after his mother dies. He didn't properly grief over her. He didn't allow himself to. Which may be similar to Mary Shelly. Her mom died when she was super young, and she never even got to know her, so she never got to grief over her. She is possibly grieving over the mother she never knew in this book. Frankenstein mary shelley

"Margo says to me, Who's your fat friend? He's really a fatty." "I made the Caesar salad there at his table, him watching my every move, meanwhile buttering pieces of bread and laying them off to one side, all the time making this puffing noise." "Believe me, he says, we don't eat like this all the time, he says. And puffs." "God, he's fat! Says Leander." "He can't help it, I say, so shut up."

How the fat guy is described. The way he eats, it is kinda suffocating. What everyone else things of him, but Rita defends him. Fat by Raymond Carver

"Acting like men whom misfortune has pushed to the end of their rope, challenging death to do its worst, he saw a tragedy in this adventure without being consicious of it, and resolved to play his role with honor, even to the final scene." "At last she yawned, displaying the fearsome array of her teeth and her grooved tongue, as hard as a greater. "She's like a little mistress!" thought the Frenchman, seeing her rolling around and making the gentlest, most flirtatious movements." "But he gazed at her caressingly and steadily, as if attempting to exert his own animal magnetism, and let her come near him; then, with a movement as gentle, as amorous as if he had wanted to caress the prettiest woman, he passed his hand over her entire body, from head to tail, using his nails to scratch the flexible vertebrae that ran the length of the panther's yellow back. The beast voluptuously raised her tail, her eyes softened, adn when the Frenchman completed this self-interested petting for teh third time, she made one of those purring noises by which our cats express their pleasure. "The poor man from Provence ate his dates, leaning against one of the palm trees, but he glanced inquireingly at the surrounding desert in every direction, searching for liberators, and at his terrifying mate, keeping an eye on her uncertain clemency." "But when she gets hungry?" thought the provencal soilder. "....there was also a vague resemblance to the facial features of a cunning woman." "This first happiness emboldened him to attempt the future: He conceived the mad hope of getting on well with the panther all that day, engaging every means to win her over and ingratiate himself." "The Frenchman, who kept one hand on his dagger, was still of a mind to plunge it into the overly trusting belly of the panther, but he was afraid of being instantly strangled in her last wild convulsion. And besides, his heart filled with a kind of remorse that begged him to respect a harmless creature." "Come now!" H said to himself. "She's taken a shine to me...perhaps this young panther never met anyone before, it is flattering to have won her first love!" "She played the way a young dog plays with his master, rolling, sparring, patting each other by turns, and sometimes she aroused the soldier by putting her paw on him with a solicitous gesture."

How the solider boy describes the panther again in an attempts to deescalate the situation for him, to calm himself down so he can evaluate it and escape. A passion in the desert by honore de balzac

Story about a poor young farmer man and a nurse maid woman traveling to the city for better jobs. While in the coach the woman complains about her breasts hurting because they are filled with milk and she needs to feed. The farmer dude is hungry, and he feels sorry for the maid, so he drinks from her breasts. It's nothing sexual, she just needed help plus he was hungry. It's an innocent act, but we tend to think of it as sexual.

Idyll by guy de maupassant. Idyll means genre of the innocent ways of country people.

Federigo loves a woman who does not love him (because she is married). He spends all of his money on her until finally he only has a falcon left. Her husband dies, her son gets sick and he thinks that the only way he will get better is if he has federigo's falcon. The womans like I can't take that mans falcon that's all he has left, but she doesn't want her son to die to she goes over to have dinner with Federigo. Federigo doesn't have money for good food so he kills his falcon to feed to her, she finally tells him that the only reason why she is there is to get his falcon for her son, and he cries because he killed the falcon for the food. She's sad, her son dies. Her brothers tell her that she need to marry a rich man so she can move on and be taken care of, but she's like nah I want to marry federigo because of his heart. The brothers were like okay we'll give you some money for your marriage. The End.

In this story Federigo's fortune changes for the good. Story 5.9 from the decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

"She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew was already entirely his own; for, though Henry was not sincerely attached to her, though he felt and delighted in all the excellencies of her character and truly loved her society, I must confess that his affection originated in nothing better than gratitude, or, in order words, that a persuasion of her partiality (bias) for him had been the only cause of giving her serious thought."

Ironic handling of romantic climax between henry and catherine. There getting together official was summarized in a paragraph instead of these long passages filled with dialogue like we are used to. Why summarize the romantic ending? It keeps henry from seeming too passionate to stay true to henrys character to tone down the conventional romance ending tone down romance as main point. Northanger Abbey by jane austen.

"After a while he said to me, 'You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.' 'It doesn't bother me.' 'No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you.' I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out for a while." "'About what time do you think I'm going to die?' he asked." "'I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can't live with forty four degrees. I've got a hundred and two." He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning. 'You poor schatz,' I said. 'Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. That's a different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty seven is normal. On this kind its ninety eight."

Kid freaking out about dying (but also acting pretty calm about dying), then realizing that he's actually going to be fine. A day's wait by ernest hemingway.

"He did kiss me a few times." She smiled. He knew he should try to match her smile, but he could not. He said, "You told me before he didn't. You said he only put his arm around you while he was driving. So which is it?" "What did you do that for? She was saying dreamily. Where were you all night? He was screaming, standing over her, legs watery, fist drawn back to hit again. Then she said, "I didn't do anything. Why did you hit me?" She said" "Look, honey, it has been brought up now." He said, and it was four years ago, so there's no reason at all I can think of that we can't talk about it now if we want to. Is there?" "We're adults. We haven't seen the Anderson's in literally years and we'll probably never see them again and it happened a long time ago, so what reason could there possibly be that we can't talk about it?"

Marian's story , and the abuse she experienced. Marian brings it up for some reason, and they decide to talk about it. She lied to Ralph at first. She said that her and the guy didn't kiss, but they did, then she said that they didn't do anything more than that but they did. Ralph said that this has happened before with her. Will you please be quite, please? By raymond Carver.

"When a girl had loved one man, and then loved another while that man was still alive, everybody knew what to think of her." "The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death." "She had lived a day of her new life of perfect love, and it had left her like this. Her breast rose and fell faintly, as if she were asleep. Emil threw himself down beside her and took her in his arms. The blood came back to her cheeks, her amber eyes opened slowly, and in them Emil saw his own face and the orchard and the sun."

Marie realizing that Emil is leaving and she can't see him anymore so she goes to away to dream not to kill herself. She imagines herself with Emil. Then Emil comes to her in real life (because he's like super in love with her) and they make love. Marie and Emil both have conflicting feelings because they know that since Marie is married what they are doing is wrong, but their passion for each other is so strong that they ignore the guilt they feel. O'Pioneers! by will cather.

She was a feminist. She wrote this story when she was pregnant with Percy Shelly's baby and the two were running away together (the day after his wife killed herself). Her mother died when she was very young, and this had an affect on her which is reflected in this story in particular. Story about a guy creating life.

Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.

"Hey, I have something to tell you! I had an interview today, and I think they're going to offer me a job-in Fairbanks." "Alaska?" He said She nodded. "What do you think of that?" "I've always wanted to go to Alaska. Does it look pretty definite?" She nodded again. "They liked me. They said I'd hear next week." "That's great."

Mary tells carl about the news about her job. What's in Alaska? by Raymond Carver

Story about priest dude being upset about his niece falling in love. He wants her to be a nun so no men. But he soon changes his mind.

Moonlight by guy de maupassant.

A man revisits Virelogne after 15 years to on invitation to go shooting with his friend, Serval. He stumbles upon a cottage which he recognises from 1869. The man remembers 'the sauvage' family lived there; the woman lost her husband when he was killed by the police.Serval approaches, the man asks his friend for the story of the people who lived there. He proceeds to tell the story:The son of the woman went to war at age 33, leaving his mother alone. She lived comfortable isolated when one day the Prussians arrived, the billeted on local householders and the woman was given four soldiers. The woman would do household chores for them and they behaved 'as good sons would to their mother.' Every day she asked about the 23rd itinerary as that was who her son was with but it was all in vain. One morning she received a letter explaining that her son has been killed by a cannonball. She feels no pain at first, due to shock. Overcome with grief she attempts to resume household chores. The old woman gathers the names and addresses of the soldiers' families and begins to stack numerous bales of hay up to the roof, which to the soldiers' belief is a kind act to keep them warm. While the soldiers are sound asleep the woman sets the hay alight and the soldiers are consumed by a wall of fire. The woman confesses to the officer "and that's their names so you can write to their families." "Tell them exactly what happened and don't forget to tell their relatives that it was me, Victoire Simon, the Sauvage who did it."The old woman, aka mother sauvage, is shot.

Mother Sauvage by guy de maupassant.

"Where are your soldiers?" She lifted a skinny arm in the direction of the fire's red heart, now beating its last, and answered confidently, "In there!" People crowded round her. The Prussian continued: "And how did the fire start?" "I started it myself," she said." "Tell them exactly what happened and don't forget to tell their relatives that it was me Victoire Simon, the Sauvage, who did it." "She was seized and thrown against the still warm walls of her house." "She stayed quite still, understanding perfectly, and awaiting her fate"

Mother Sauvage by guy de maupassant. She confessed to starting the fire.

Thus repeatedly exhorted, the boy said: -"Mother mine, do but get me Federigo's falcon, and I doubt not I shall soon be well." -Son

Mothers son is saying this in story 5.9 from the decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The second work in Scenes of Clerical Life is entitled "Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story" and concerns the life of a clergyman named Maynard Gilfil. We are introduced to Mr Gilfil in his capacity as the vicar of Shepperton, 'thirty years ago' (presumably the late 1820s) but the central part of the story begins in June 1788 and concerns his youth, his experiences as chaplain at Cheverel Manor and his love for Caterina Sarti. Caterina, known to the family as 'Tina', is an Italian orphan and the ward of Sir Christopher and Lady Cheverel, who took her into their care following the death of her father. In 1788 she is companion to Lady Cheverel and a talented amateur singer. Gilfil's love for Tina is not reciprocated; she is infatuated with Captain Anthony Wybrow, nephew and heir of Sir Christopher Cheverel. Sir Christopher intends Wybrow to marry a Miss Beatrice Assher, the daughter of a former sweetheart of his, and that Tina will marry Gilfil. Wybrow, aware of and compliant to his uncle's intentions, nonetheless continues to flirt with Tina, causing her to fall deeply in love with him. This continues until Wybrow goes to Bath in order to press his suit to Miss Assher. He is then invited to the Asshers' home, and afterwards returns to Cheverel Manor, bringing with him Miss Assher and her mother. Wybrow dies unexpectedly. Gilfil, finding a knife on Tina, fears that she has killed him, but the cause of death is in fact a pre-existing heart complaint. Tina runs away, and Gilfil and Sir Christopher fear that she has committed suicide. However, a former employee of Sir Christopher and Lady Cheverel returns to the manor to inform them that Tina has taken refuge with him and his wife. Gilfil seeks her out, helps her recover and marries her. It is hoped that marriage and motherhood, combined with Gilfil's love for her, which she now reciprocates, will endue her with a new zest for life. However, she dies in childbirth soon afterwards, leaving the curate to live out the rest of his life alone and die a lonely man.

Mr. Gilfils love story by george eliot (who is really a girl but thats her pen name). My girl Tina (or caterina) is like super in love with this dude named Wybrow, and Wybrow likes flirting with her and leading her on because he's a selfish dick, but he doesn't like Tina the way she likes him. Mr. Gilfil's love story by George eliot

""I shall be with you on your wedding night," I should regard the threatened fate as unavoidable. But death was no evil to me, if the loss of Elizabeth were balanced with it; and I therefore, with a contented and even cheerful countenance, agreed with my father, that if my cousin would consent, the ceremony should take place in ten days, and thus put, as I imagined the deal to my fate." "Great God! If for one instant I had thought what might be the hellish intention of my fiendish adversary, I would rather have banished myself for ever from my native country, and wandered a friendless outcast over the earth, than have consented to this miserable marriage. But, as if possessed of magic powers, the monster had blinded me to his real intentions; and when I thought that I had prepared only my own death, I hastened that of a far dearer victim." "As the period fixed for our marriage drew nearer, whether from cowardice or a prophetic feeling, I felt my heart sink within me." "In the mean time I took every precaution to defend my person, in case the fiend should openly attack me. I carried pistols and a dagger constantly about me" "But on the day that was to fulfil my wished and my destiny, she was melancholy, and a presentiment of evil pervaded her; and perhaps also she thought of the dreadful secret, which I had promised to reveal to her on the following day" "I took the hand of Elizabeth. "You are sorrowful, my love. Ah! if you knew what I have suffered, and what I may yet endure, you would endeavor to let me taste the quiet and freedom from despair that this one day at least permits me to enjoy.""

My dude victor is really freaking out over this wedding. He believes that his monster will kill him on his wedding night, because his monster told him that he would be with him on his wedding night. Victor is going around wearing pistols, shaking, preparing for his death (he's not even worried about Elizabeth, he doesn't even stop once to consider that his monster might want to kill Elizabeth, which would make sense since victor wouldn't make his monster a companion, so the monster has to take away victors companion). Anyway, he's only concerned about himself, and he agrees to continue with the wedding a couple of days. He says he doesn't mind dying so long as Elizabeth is alive, but he doesn't really think about what affects his death will have on his family. He's just thinking about himself, and making up for the death of his brother. Now after all of the events happen he realizes that he should have thought about Elizabeth more, but its too late now my dude. Dude gets mad at Elizabeth for being sad, and hes like I got 99 problems and you're becoming 1. Frankenstein by mary shelley.

"She thought then about her great big basket full of the goodies they had greedily devoured-her two glistening chickens in aspic, her pears and her four bottles of claret. Suddenly, like a piece of string stretched to breaking point, her anger collapsed and left her on the verge of tears." "Cornudet...began to whistle the marseillaise...the song of the republic."

My girl boule de suif gave these people her food at the beginning of the story, slept with a man she didn't want to, and now when its their turn to return the favor they're like nah man, you can't have our food, your prostitute its your job to sleep with men, oh well not my problem.

Story about a couple house sitting their neighbors apartment. The couple does weird things in the house and they are obsessed with the house and pretending to be the stones. Minimal-no description of thoughts Intrusive- unwholesome weirdness stealing erotic freedom in the apartment.

Neighbors by Raymond Carver.

Realism story about a girl named Catherine experiencing fashionable society for the first time. She also reads horror tales and crap, its really boring book to be honest but whatever. Its written by a woman, and this particular novel did not get published in her lifetime because the publisher would publish it or give her her rights back. Her brother published her writings after she dies, he wanted to honor her (that's sweet my dude).

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

Story about a young woman named Alexandra whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the lands they have struggled to farm.

O' Pioneers! by Willa Cather

"His dark face was angular and rutted every which way. His chin was hollow; his temples were hollow; his eyes were deep set in yellowed orbits. His jawbones, sharply defined by an emaciation beyond words, created cavities in the middle of each cheek." "To see, beside these human ruins, a young woman whose neck, arms, and throat were naked and white; whose rounded forms, blooming with beauty, whose hair, lush and vital above an alabaster forehead, inspired love; whose eyes did not receive the light but disseminated it; who was silken and fresh; whose airy curls and perfumed breath seemed too heavy, too hard, too powerful for that shadow, for that man of dust-ah! It truly was life and death, my thought incarnate, an imaginary arabesque, a chimera, half hideous, but divinely feminine about the bust."

Old man Zambinella is an emblem of corruption, death, emptiness, etc. The family his an emblem of superficiality. The old man is described in very cruel detail, while the young woman radiates life, etc. Sarrasine by Honore de balzac

"Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are 17 steps, because I have both seen and observed. By the way, since you are interested in these little problems, and since you are good enough to chronic one or two of my trifling experiences, you may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, pink-tinted note paper which had been lying open upon the table. "It came by the last post," Said he, read it aloud. The note was undated, and without either signature or address" "It is not an English paper at all...there is large text woven into the texture of the paper...monogram...he took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves...the paper was made in Bohemia...precisely and the man who wrote the note is a german....is it the german who is so uncourteous to his verbs."

Opening scene. Sherlock talking to watson about how he see but does observe. And Sherlock is like well watson since you are here we can talk about this mysterious note I got. A scandal in bohemia by conan Doyle

"Carl watched them walk to the kitchen. He settled back against the cushion and watched them walk. Then he leaned forward very slowly. He squinted. He saw Jack reach up a shelf in the cupboard. He saw Mary move against Jack from behind and put her arms around his waist."

Possibly adultery going on or they are just super high. Mary goes to the kitchen with Jack and she puts her hands on him. What's in Alaska by raymond carver

"When my father had gone by himself to Milan, my mother accompanied by me visited this abode....she found a peasant and his wife...distributing a scanty meal to 5 hungry babes...one attracted my mother far above all the rest. She appeared of a different stock. The four others were dark eyes, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin, and very fair. Her hair was to set a crown of distinction on her head. Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the molding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features." "...fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved barmbles." "...a child fairer than pictured cherub-a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills" "On the evening previous to her being brought to my home, my mother had said playfully,-"I have a pretty present for my Victor- tomorrow he shall have it." And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine-mine to protect, love, and cherish. All praises bestowed on her I received as made to a possession of my own. We called each other familiarly by the name of cousin. No word, no expression coudl body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me-my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only"

Quote that describes the way Elizabeth looks in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. She was the daughter of a Milanese nobleman, which explains why she looks so different from the others. Being of noble blood is reflected in her looks. She is superior.

Writes K-mart realism= realism about the working class, gruby quality, people making ends meet. Minimalist.

Raymond Carver

"Now if this was how it ended, and he knew it was, he must not turn like some snake biting itself because its back was broken. It wasn't this woman's fault." "Why should he blame this woman because she kept him well? He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook" "It was a talent all right but instead of using it, he had traded on it." "And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil." "...it was strange that when he did not love her at all and was lying."

Regretting his life, taking responsibility for his life and not blaming his wife. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by ernest hemingway.

"You have lowered me to your level. Loving and being loved are henceforth words without meaning for me, as they are for you. From this moment on, the sight of a real woman will always fill me with thoughts of this imaginary woman." "In my memory there will ever be a celestial harpy who will sink her claws into my every manly emotion, and who will stamp all other women with the mark of imperfection. Monster! You who can bring no new life into being you have emptied my world of woman forever." "No more love! I am dead to all pleasure, to all human sentiment! He snatched up a hammer and hurled it at the statue with such excessive force that he missed his mark. Thinking he had destroyed that monument to his folly, he picked up his sword and raised it high, making ready to dispatch the singer."

Sarrasine being unable to love again because zambinella ruined the image of women for him. Sarrasine by honore de balzac

Story about how a family got their wealth. They got it from Zambinella, who was a very famous singer, who looked like a girl but was actually a boy. An artist named Sassarine falls in love with her (him) and he doesn't realize that its a boy, and Zambinella doesn't correct him. Sassarine is obsessed, ,and then he finds out and hes super upset, and destroys the art he made of her, and tires to kill her but he murdered. The people who murder him buy his sculpture which is how the family got the money.

Sarrasine by honore de balzac

"See that thou leave nought undone that my lord and thine has charged thee to do, but leave her not so that the beasts and teh birds devour her, unless he have so bidden thee."

She like do whatever my husband said to do, but I am a mother and I care for my child so please kill her humanly and don't leave her for the animals. story 10.10 from the decameron by giovanni boccaccio.

Whereto Griselda...made answer: -"My lord, do with me as thou mayst deem best for thine own honour and comfort, for well I wot that I am of less account than they, and unworthy of this honourable estate to which of they courtesy thou hast advanced me."

She's like okay do what you want, you are the one who advanced me in life, and I am your wife so I will obey you. Story 10.10 from the decameron by giovanni boccaccio.

Gualtieri the marquis of Saluzzo, overborne by the entreaties of his vassals, consents to take a wife, but, being minded to please himself in the choice of her, takes a husbandman's daughter. He has two children by her, both of whom he makes her believe that he has put to death. Afterward feigning to be tired of her, and to have taken another wife, he turns her out of doors in her shift, and brings his daughter into the house in guise of his bride; but finding her patient under it all, he brings her home again, and shews her her children, now grown up, and honors her, and causes her to be honored as marchioness.

Story 10.10 from the decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

And so away he rode with his company to the village; where, being come to the house of the girls father, they found her returning from the spring with a bucket of water, making all the haste she could, that she might afterwards go with the other women to see Gualtieri's bride come by.

Story 10.10 from the decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. The dude is about to pick up his chick.

Rinaldo (a man constantly praying to God and St. Julian) is robbed, arrives at Castel Guglielmo (abandon by his servant) , and is entertained by a widow lady (he has sex with her, because she was waiting for her lover Marquis to come, but he never did so she didn't want her night to be wasted and decided to host him); his property is restored to him, and he returns home safe and sound (and the robbers are killed).

Story 2.2 (day 2 story 2)

Meanwhile it grew late, and sorely he longed that the lady might not leave his house altogether unhonoured, and yet to crave help of his own husbandman was more than his pride could brook. In these desperate straits his glance happened to fall on his brave falcon on his perch in his little parlor. And so, as a last resource, he took him, and finding him plump, deemed that he would make a dish meet for such a lady.

Story 5.9 from the decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Story about a man dying becuase he didn't tend to his wounds. So now he is reflecting on his life, next to his wife whom he doesn't love.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway.

"Then suddenly another sound became audible-a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle. The instant that we heart it, holmes sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with his cane at the bellpull. You see it watson? he yelled. you see it? But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holems struck the light I heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my watery eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which my friend lashed so savagely. I could however see that his face was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most horrible cry to which I have ever listened...what can it mean? I gasped. It means that it is all over," Holmes answered."

The action of story, Watson doesn't know what's going on but Sherlock knew the entire time. He knew that it was a snake, and he was ready to send it back to its sender. Sherlock basically killed a guy. The adventure of the speckled band by conan doyle.

Story about sherlock and watson investigating the mysterious death of a girl by a speckled band. It turns out that the band is a snake, and she was murdered by her step dad who wanted her the money her mom gave her (moms dead).

The adventure of the speckled band by conan doyle

Now what shall we say in this case but that even into the cots of the poor the heavens let fall at times spirits divine, as into the palaces of kings souls that are fitter to tend hogs than to exercise lordship over men?

The chick was a good woman, and the king was a bad man for putting her through all of that. Story 10.10 from the decameron by giovanni Boccaccio.

"Elizabeth had caught the scarlet fever...many arguments had been urged to persuade my mother to refrain from attending upon her...at first she yielded...but when she heard that the life of her favorite was menaced, she could no longer control her anxiety." "She attended her sickbed-her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper,-Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver." "On her death bed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her"

The death of Victors mother was essentially caused by Elizabeth. Frankenstein by mary shelley.

"Where sir Christophere, who was an enthusiast for Gothic architecture, and was then entertaining the project of metamorphosing his plain brick family mansion into the model of a gothic manor house was bent on studying the details of that marble miracle the cathedral" Page 94, "Looking at sir christopher, you would at once have been inclined to hope that he had a full grown son and heir..."

The dining room was like a cathedral, too grand of a setting for the people. Like a church building that's been re purposed as a house. Sir Christopher is well to do, examines his teeth, bodily oriented, strong physical presence, suggests something about the person, stoic, proud, vain, confident dominate. Mr. Gilfil's love story by george eliot

"It's a popular win for Walcott. That's the way the money was bet in the Garden." "I'm sorry as hell, Jack" John says. "It's all right," Jack says. "They certainly tried a nice double cross," John said." "It's funny how fast you can think when it means that much money," Jack says."

The double cross refers to what Walcott tired to do during the match. He purposely hit Jack below the belt so he (walcott) could be disqualified and Jack would lose his money, but Jack survived and kept fighting.

"Elizabeth..."What is it that agitates you, my dear Victor? What is it you fear?" 'Oh! Peace, peace, my love,' replied I; "This night, and all will be safe: but this night is dreadful, very dreadful."" "I passed an hour in this state of mind, when suddenly I reflected how fearful the combat which I momentarily expected would be to my wife, and I earnestly intreated her to retire, resolving not to join her until I had obtained some knowledge as to the situation of my enemy. She left me and I continued some time walking up and down the passages of the house, and inspecting every corner that might afford a retreat to my adversary." "...suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream." "As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins, and tingling in the extremities of my limbs. This state lasted but for an instant; the scream was repeated, and I rushed into the room" "Great God! Why did I not then expire!"

The dreadful wedding night. My dude victor is freaking out, he's outside looking for his monster and waiting for his monster to attack. Elizabeth's trying to comfort victor but hes like just stay inside and away from me (he doesn't want her to see him die if he does). Elizabeth's like okay I'll stay inside. The monster attacks, and Elizabeth dies. Victor freaks out because he realizes that he was being selfish and stupid by not considering the possibility that his monster was talking about killing Elizabeth not him. Frankenstein by mary shelley

"Ralph! She turned the knob. Ralph, let me in, please, darling. Ralph? Please let me in, darling. I want to see you. Ralph? Please! He said, go away Marian." "Ralph the children are in their room playing. I called Von Williams and said you wouldn't be in today, and I am going to stay home. Then she said I have a nice breakfast on the stove for you darling when you're through with your bath. Ralph? Just be quite, please,' he said" "He held himself, he later considered as long as he could. And then he turned to her. He turned and turned in what might have been a stupendous sleep, and he was still turning, marveling at the impossible changes he felt moving over him."

The ending Ralph comes home with a black eye. He's upset, he doesn't know what to do about his wife. She comes to him, he gives in and has sex with her. Will you please be quite, please? by raymond carver.

"And then instead of going on to Arusha they turned left, he evidently figured that they had the gas, and looking down he saw a pink sifting cloud, moving over the ground, and in the air, like the first snow in a blizzard, that comes from nowhere, and he knew the locusts were coming up from the south. Then they began to climb and they were going to the East it seemed, and then it darkened and they were in a storm, the rain so thick it seemed like flying through a waterfall, and then they were out and Compie turned his head and grinned and pointed and there, ahead, all he could see, as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the square top of Kilimanjaro. And then he knew that there was where he was going."

The ending is in his dream. The dream could be about his redemption=image of being lifted, he's picturing for himself that he's better. He thinks he deserves to feel better even though he thinks he doesn't deserve to feel better. Or the dream is revealing the process of death to him. When he attacks himself he still chooses to see himself as a good guy which shows that he is very egotistical. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway.

"What's in Alaska?" She said. In a moment she was snoring. "Just as he started to turn off the lamp, he thought he saw something in the hall." "He waited. He waited for it to move once more, to make the slightest noise."

The ending is strange. Mary wants to have sex but she falls asleep. Then Carl sees some shit. They are both just really high. What's in Alaska by raymond carver.

"Some fatty, Rudy says...I put my hand on my middle and wonder what would happen if I had children and one of them turned out to look like that, so fat." "As if he's been thinking about it, Rudy says, ,I knew a fat guy once, a couple of fat guys, really fat guys, when I was a kid." "I can't think of anything to say, so we drink our tea and pretty soon I get up to go to bed. Rudy gets up too, turns off the TV, locks the front door, and begins his unbuttoning." "But right, as soon as he turns off the light and gets into bed, Rudy begins. I turn on my back and relax some, though it is against my will. But here is the thing. When he gets on me, I suddenly feel I am fat. I feel I am terrifically fat, so fat that Rudy is a tiny thing and hardly there at all. That's a funny story, Rita says, but I can see she doesn't know what to make of it. I feel depressed. But I won't go into it with her. I've already told her too much."

The ending. Rita thinks about what it would be like to have baby and if that baby were fat. Then she goes to bed and Rudy has sex with her, and she imagines that she is fat. She tells her friend this and friend doesn't know what to say. She feels said, because maybe she want's to have a baby but after seeing the way rudy and the other people reacted to fat people she wonders if thats how they would react to her. But she still wants the baby because she says that her life is about to change. Fat by Raymond Carver

"'That was a pretty thing to do,' he said in a toneless voice. 'He would have left you too.' 'Stop it,' she said. 'Of course it's an accident,' he said. 'I know that.' 'Stop it,' she said. 'Don't worry,' he said. 'There will be a certain amount of unpleasantness but I will have some photographs taken that will be very useful at the inquest. There's the testimony of the gun bearers and the driver too. You're perfectly all right.' 'Stop it,' she said. 'There's a hell of a lot to be done,' he said. 'And I'll have to send a truck off to the lake to wireless for a plane to take the three of us into Nairobi. Why didn't you poison him? That's what they do in England.' 'Stop it. Stop it. Stop it,' the woman cried."

The ending. The wife shoots her husband because she sees that he is getting super confident, and he might get confident enough to leave her and she doesn't like that. She doesn't love him but she likes having control over him. And now that he is confident that control is gone. Wilson tells her that they will say it was an accident. The short happy life of Francis Macomber by ernest hemingway.

"Instantly they kissed and as they walked very slowly under the almost leafless trees through which moonlight filtered, their love, their desire and their need for each other was so intense that they almost sank down at the foot of a tree." "...she murmured in a faint voice: "I'm so tired, my friend, I'm going straight to bed.' As he opened his arms for one last kiss she fled, with the parting words: "no...to sleep...but...let him who loves me follow me!" "He succumbed at last to the power of great fatigue and finally fell asleep." "...the Baron's eyes flew open..."what? Where am I?" At this, she, who had not slept a wink, looked at the puffy, red-eyed and disheveled man at her side. She answered in the same dismissive tone she took with her husband. 'Nothing,' she said, 'it's a cock. Go back to sleep, Monsieur. It's nothing to do with you."

The guy falls asleep right when hes about to sleep with his girl. She's kinda mad at him, but she's like whatever, she liked to be pursued, thats why she makes it so hard for him to kill the boar and to sleep with her. If they sleep together the fun the chase, etc. will be over. Cockrow by guy de maupassant.

"Bill and Arlene Miller were a happy couple. But now and then they felt they along among their circle had been passed by somehow..." "It seemed to the millers that the stones lived a fuller and brighter life. The stones were going out for dinner, or entertaining at home, or traveling about the country somewhere in connection with Jim's work." "Jim..managed to combine business with pleasure trips...on this occasion the stones would be away for ten days." "In their absence, the millers would look after the Stones apartment, feed kitty, and water the plants." "Well, I wish it was us," Bill said." "Bill took a deep breath as he entered the stones apartment. The air was already heavy and it was vaguely sweet...He looked at himself in the mirror and then closed his eyes and then looked again. He opened the medicine chest. He found a container of pills and read the label-Harriet Stone. One each day as directed-and slipped it into his pocket. He went back to the kitchen, drew a pitcher of water, and returned to the living room."

The introduction to the story how the millers feel about the stones. They want to be them. Neighbors by Raymond Carver

"Go, and let him in softly; here is this supper, and there will be none to eat it; and we can very well put him up for the night." -The lady

The lady is saying this to her maid in regards to Rinaldo in story 2.2 from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

For a while she would do nought but weep and bitterly bewail herself; but being still young, and left very wealthy, she was often urged by her brothers to marry again, and though she would rather have not done so, yet being improtuned, and remembering Federigo's high desert, and the magnificent generosity with which he had finally killed his falcon to do her honour, she said to her brothers: -"Gladly, with your consent, would I remain a widow, but if you will not be satisfied except I take a husband, rest assured that none other will I ever take save Federigo"

The lady is super upset because her husband and son died, and her brothers want her to remarry a rich guy, and shes like I want to marry a poor guy (Federigo) because he was so kind to me. Story 5.9 Giovanni Boccaccio

The lady meanwhile took a little rest, after which she had a roaring fire put in one of her large rooms, whither presently she came, and asked her maid how the good man did. The maid replied: -"Madam, he has put on the clothes, in which he shews to advantage, having a handsome person, and seeming to be a worthy man, and well-bred."

The maid is basically telling her lady that the dude is super hot and he seems like a worthy man so she should go have sex with him. Story 2.2 from the decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

"The progress of Catherines' unhappiness from the events of the evening, was as follows. It appeared first in a general dissatisfaction with every body about her, while she remained in the rooms, which speedily brought on considerable weariness and a violent desire to go home. This, on arriving in Pulteney-street, took the direction of extraordinary hunger, and when that was appeased, changed into an earnest longing to be in bed; such was the extreme point of her distress; for when there she immediately fell into a sound sleep which lasted nine hours, and from which she awoke perfectly revived, in excellent sprites, with fresh hopes and fresh schemes." "Mrs. Allen, whose vacancy of mind and incapacity for thinking were such, that as she never talked a great deal, so she could never be entirely silent; and, therefore, while she sat at her work, if she lost her needle or broke her thread, if she heard a carriage in the street, or saw a speck upon her gown. She must observe it aloud, whether there were any one at leisure to answer her or not."

The narrators dry witted style. The narrator is jane austen. Her voice is wordly, and informed, she gives her perspective and she is ironic sarcastic, and she teaches "moral lessons" (she is making fun of moral lessons). People back then thought that novels written for girls were dangerous and would give them ideas and wants for things that are not real which will make them dissatisfied. So didactic fiction (teaches moral lessons) arose to combat the idea of novels being bad. Northanger Abbey by: Jane Austen

"Alexandra smiled at this. 'Only better. When I've thought about your coming, I've sometimes been a little afraid of it. You have lived where things move so fast, and everything is slow here; the people slowest of all. Our lives are like the years, all made up of weather and crops and cows. How you hated cows!' She shook her head and laughed to herself. 'I didn't when we milked together. I walked up to the pasture corners this morning. I wonder whether I shall ever be able to tell you all that I was thinking about up there. It's a strange thing, Alexandra; I find it easy to be frank with you about everything under the sun except-yourself!"

The relationship between Carl and Alexandra. It's more of a friendship than a romantic one. And we see that at the end. The moral of the story for Alexandra is that romantic love is dangerous and its good that we have friendship love. Carl even says that he's scared to talk about how he feels about Alexandra, because maybe he doesn't know. O'Pioneers! by willa cather.

Summary It is noon. Francis Macomber is on an African safari; Macomber is thirty-five years old, a trim, fit man who holds a number of big-game fishing records. However, at the moment, he has just demonstrated that he is a coward. However, members of the safari are acting as though "nothing had happened." The natives at camp carried Macomber into camp triumphantly, but the gun-bearers who witnessed Macomber's cowardice do not participate in the celebration. In a flashback, the reader realizes that Macomber and his beautiful wife, Margot, are wealthy Americans, and that this jaunt is their first safari — and that Macomber, when faced with his first lion, bolted and fled, earning the contempt of his wife. Of course, though, she has been contemptuous of him for some time; Francis' running from the lion like a scared rabbit has only increased her dislike for her unmanly husband. She makes no secret of this as she slips off in the middle of the night for a rendezvous with the safari guide, Robert Wilson. Next day, as she observes Francis gaining a measure of courage as he engages in a standoff with a charging water buffalo, she realizes that if Francis continues to prove himself strong and willful and courageous, he might leave her and rid himself forever of her sharp-tongued ridicule. As the standoff with the second water buffalo becomes more intense as the water buffalo's horns inch closer and closer to goring Francis, Margot takes aim at the water buffalo, shooting Francis in the back of the head, and he dies at the most courageous moment of his "short happy life."

The short happy life of Francis Macomber by Ernest heminway.

"She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance." "A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can." "The advantages of natural folly (foolishness) in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; -and to her treatment of the subject I will only add in justice to men, that though to the larger and more tirfling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire any thing more in woman than ignorance." "But Catherine did not know her own advantages-did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward. In the present instance, she confessed and lamented her want of knowledge; declared that she would give anything in the world to be able to draw...Catherine was so hopeful a scholar..."

The value of ignorance, here the narrator is clearly being sarcastic because the narrator is a very smart woman. Northanger Abbey by jane austen

To whom she answered: -"My brothers, well wot I that 'tis as you say; but I had rather have a man without wealth than wealth without a man."

The woman responding to while she wants to marry Federigo. Story 5.9 Giovanni Boccaccio.

"I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organisation; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man." "I thought, that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption." "I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame." "The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials" "I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed."

Victor building his monster. He has a sick obsession, he creates his inner demon. The monster he creates is his inner demon come to life. Victor says I created my own vampire. This project is separating him from his friends and family. Frankenstein by mary shelley

"Several changes of day and night passed, and the orb of night had greatly lessened, when I began to distinguish my sensations from each other. I gradually saw plainly the clear stream that supplied me with drink, and teh trees that shaded me with their foliage. I was delighted when I first discovered that a pleasant sound, which often saluted my ears, proceed from the throats of the little winged animals who had often intercepted the light from my eyes. I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded me, and to perceive the boundaries of the radiant roof of light which canopied me. Sometimes I tried to imitate the pleasant songs of the birds , but was unable. Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again." "My sensations had by this time become distinct, and my mind received every day additional ideal.

Victors monster telling his side of the story, describing the night victor abandon him and the nights following that. Victors monster can be characterized as lost, and innocent but destructive since he doesn't know his own strength, conflicted, and a sympathetic since he didn't ask to be created and he has no one in the world. He's like a baby. Learning and absorbing everythind around him. Frankenstein by mary shelley

Story about a group of middle aged adults getting high.

What's in Alaska? by Raymond Carver

"The words induced me to turn towards myself. I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were, high and unsullied descent untied with riches. A man might be respected with only one of these advantages; but without either he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few! And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome-; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw the heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?" "I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me: I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Oh, that I had forever remained in my native wood, nor known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst and heat!"

When the monster is listening to Felix (one of the men from the family he has been watching) explain the system of human society, class and etc. the monster comes to the realization that he doesn't fit in, and that makes him upset and sad. Frankenstein by mary shelley

"His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips." "I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep." He has a dream about kissing Elizabeth, then Elizabeth dies in his arms, and turns into his mother. "I started from my sleep with horror...I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created...one hand stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited...I came at length opposite to the inn...here I paused...I perceived Henry Clerval" "Nothing could equal my delight on seeing clerval; his presence brought back to my thoughts my father, Elizabeth, and all those scenes of home so dear to my recollection. I grasped his hand, and in a moment forgot my horror and misfortune; I felt suddenly, and for the first time during many months, calm and serene joy."

When victors' monster comes to life, he feels his lab because he is terrified about he has created. Also seeing his friend Henry makes him feel happy. Frankenstein by mary shelley

Story about a guy not over the fact that his wife cheated on him. He like abuses her once or twice because of the cheating. He finds out later that the kids might not be his. He leaves home, comes back and sleeps with her.

Will you please be quite, please? by raymond carver

"So she woke him when she came in, Wilson thought, looking at them both with his flat, cold eyes. Well, why doesn't he keep his wife where she belongs? What does he think I am, a bloody plaster saint? Let him keep her where she belongs. It's his own fault." "The hell with it, thought Robert Wilson. The utter complete hell with it. So this is what it's going to be like. Well, this is what it's going to be like, then." "He, Robert Wilson, carried a double size cot on safari to accommodate any windfalls he might receive. He had hunted for a certain clientele, the international, fast, sporting set, where the women did not feel they were getting their money's worth unless they had shared that cot with the white hunter. He despised them when he was away from them although he liked some of them well enough at the time, but he made his living by them; and their standards were his standards as long as they were hiring him."

Wilson is the safari dude, and he is very cynical. He doesn't have any morals he doesn't seem to really care. He just does what he wants to do. In this scene Macomber finds out that his wife slept with Wilson and he is all salty about it. The short happy life of Francis Macomber by ernest heminway.

"There before his marveling eyes stood that ideal beauty whose perfections he had thus far sought out only in bits and pieces, looking to one model, often ignoble, for the curve of an impeccable leg; to another for the contours of the breast; to this one for her white shoulders; finally taking the neck of a young girl, and the hands of this woman, and the gleaming knees of that child; never encountering, beneath the cold skies of Paris, the sumptuous fluid creations of ancient Greece. In la Zambinella he found-united , delicate, and perfectly alive-all the exquisite proportions for which he so yearned, all the perfections of a femininity of which a sculptor is at once the sternest and the most passionate critic. her mouth was expressive, her eyes amorous, her skin brilliant white." "She was more than a woman, she was a masterpeice!" "When Zambinella sang a tumult filled his soul"

Zambinella in his youth. Ssarrasine is super in love with her/him. Sarrasine by honore de balzac

Story about two guys hunting ducks. One of them shoots a female duck who was flying with a male, and then the male starts freaking out cause that was his girl. The guy who didn't shoot the female tells his they guy who did that the male is never going to leave them alone now cause he's sad. So they shoot the male and put the two dead birds in the same gamebag. Primitive side of narrator enjoys hunting. Civilized side who is sensitive to blood when the bird shows love for its mate it becomes more human. What he's feeling is maybe the bird has more love than I do.

love by guy de maupassant.

"He was entranced by the scene, so lost in wonder that the thought of his niece all but faded away." "He needed to sit down and look, to admire the work of God." "He could feel a worrying doubt creep into his thoughts: a questions was beginning to grow once more in his mind. Why had God created this? Since night was obviously made for sleep and unconsciousness, rest and all embracing oblivion, why make it even more lovely than the day and sweeter than any twilight or dawn?" "The couple gave life to this landscape which surrounded them like some divine frame. They seemed as one, the single being for whom this calm and silent night was made."

moonlight by guy de maupassant. Priest dude realizing that hey earthly love isn't as bad as I thought it was just like night isn't as bad as I thought it was. God made night pretty, and he made earthly love pretty.