Short Story Unit
Emmalee Morales
A Pair of Silk Stockings
- Characters: Mrs. Sommers, the children, the women in the movie theater, and the man in the cable car.
- Vocabulary:
Consternation- a shocked or worried feeling.
Fastidious- caring a lot about small details and wanting everything to be correct and neat. Percale- a closely woven, plain fabric often used for bed covers.
Veritable- real; used to emphasize what you are saying.
- Literary Devices:
Characterization- It describes how Mrs. Sommers was little, and fastidious.
Conflict: She was having a man to self conflict. She wanted to do what is best for her children, but she also wanted to do things for herself.
Theme: Caring for yourself for once.
- To Remember "A Pair of Silk Stockings": Looking at the title, you already know there are going to be silk stockings in the story, then think of a poor women wanting to treat herself.
The Luck of the Roaring Camp
- Characters: Cherokee Sal, Stumpy, Kentuck, Luck, Tipton.
- Vocabulary:
Martyrdom: Death or suffering of a martyr
Expiation: making amends for guilt or wrongdoing.
ab initio: from the beginning
Affrefate: a whole formed by combining several
ex officio: by virtue of one's personal status
- Literary Devices:
Theme: Parenthood transforms people, and The Good of all People
Conflict: Man vs. Man; They don't know whether to keep the baby. They end up keeping him and raising him as best they can.
- To Remember "The Luck of the Roaring Camp": Think of Luck and how good things started coming when he was born.
A Good Man is Hard to Find
- Characters: Bailey, The mom, The grandmother, June Star, John Wesley, Red Sammy Butts, Red Sammy's Wife, the Misfit, Hiram, Pitty Sing
- Vocabulary:
Flogged: beat with a whip or stick as punishment or torture.
Nickelodeon: a jukebox; operated by a nickel
Organdy: a fine translucent cotton or silk fabric that is usually stiffened for women's clothing
Pickaninny: (offensive) a small black child
Stucco: fine plaster used for coating wall surfaces or molding into architectural designs.
- Literary Devices:
Realism: Most families go on vacation, and a lot of people get into car wrecks. Those are real events that happen everyday.
Protagonist: The grandmother because she is the main character
Antagonist: The Misfit because he is against the grandmother and he is killing the people.
Theme: Good Vs. Evil, Family
To Remember "A Good Man is Hard to Find": think about how they got into a car wreck and the misfit started to help them, but ended up killing them instead.
A Rose for Emily
- Characters: Emily, Homer Barron, Tobe, and the people in the town
- Vocabulary:
Cupolas: a small dome
Coquettish: flirtatious
Haughty: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those ones views as unworthy
Virulent: extremely poisonous
- Literary Devices:
Theme: Isolation
Conflict: Man vs. Self and Man vs. Man
Realism: She is resisting modernism by staying in her house
Protagonist: Emily
Antagonist: The town
- To Remember "A Rose for Emily": Think of a girl who was shut in, dies, and then a death is found out.
To Build a Fire
- Characters: the man, the dog, the man from Sulfur Creek
- Vocabulary:
Bough: a main branch of a tree
Cheechako: tenderfoot
Conflagration: a war or conflict; a large fire that destroys a lot
Hoss: a southern colloquial nickname for partner; a term of friendship.
Undulations: a rising and falling in waves
- Literary Devices:
Theme: Take others advice; Isolationism
Conflict: Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Self
- To Remember "To Build a Fire": Think about a man being stranded and trying to kill his dog, but the man ends up dying.