https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes A thematic approach to studying short stories. en-us 2019-11-17 06:45:22 UTC 2019-11-26 14:01:06 UTC hello@padlet.com 1411391 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415977081 Love is presented as a state of mind established by clear communication, and the loss between them is represented by the loss of their child- and subsequently communication and intimacy between them.]]> 2019-11-25 03:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415977081 1510222 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415977468 An internal conflict. Inner conflicts are where the MC have struggles that they carry within themselves.]]> 2019-11-25 03:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415977468 1510222 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415977489 An external conflict. Two or more characters in a physical, vocal, or mental fight.]]> 2019-11-25 03:26:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415977489 1510222 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415977530 An external conflict. The character struggles with the rules or laws that society, a large group of people, have made.]]> 2019-11-25 03:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415977530 1510222 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415977690 An external conflict. The character has to struggle to get through the elements of nature, mother nature, and survival. ]]> 2019-11-25 03:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415977690 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415978234 2019-11-25 03:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415978234 1510921 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415978530 The boy in Araby was eager to please his love interest and makes the decision of going to the Bazaar to get something for her. Which he later regrets due to the fact that he went in the evening when all the shops were closed and he wasn’t able to get anything. He realizes that he was “driven and derided by vanity.” He thought so much of impressing the girl of his liking that he forgot about reality. He was at first blinded by the desire to get love, then he had a moment of epiphany that the world doesn’t stop for him. He opened his eyes to the harshness of reality.]]> 2019-11-25 03:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415978530 1511112 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415978604 Having spent decades in a marriage that was physically close and emotionally fulfilling, Grant struggles with Meadowlake’s policy that he cannot visit Fiona for the first month, calling every day to check on her wellbeing. When he does visit her, he brings flowers. It’s clear to readers that he cares for her deeply and misses having her at home. Overall, Grant consistently thinks of Fiona and treats her with conscientiousness and respect, complicating the simpler view of him as an immoral person who has been unfaithful. This offers Munro’s first suggestion that fidelity is more complex than mere adherence to monogamy.]]> 2019-11-25 03:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415978604 1511371 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415978839 The Protagonist during the events of the short story is mainly going to the Araby in order to gift his crush a gift which set's the events of the short story]]> 2019-11-25 03:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415978839 1511242 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415979189 One of the main themes of Araby is 'growing up'. The persona, who is a grown man who uses mature language to describe his youthful experience, reflects back on his experience with the bazaar, providing small insights from an adult perspective. The fact that the story is told from an adult perspective indicates that the story is about growing up: the narrator is reflecting back on a formative time during his childhood.]]> 2019-11-25 03:35:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415979189 15110512 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415979259 Grant loves Fiona and ‘lost’ her when she was at Meadowlake. From Grant and Fiona relationship it shows that love can overcome adversities whether big(Grant heating on Fiona) or small(Fiona forgetting abou Grant).]]> 2019-11-25 03:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415979259 1511371 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415979359 During the short story,we are introduced to an elderly couple and also during the story we also read a glimpse of what they were when they were young (eg.Fiona Proposed to Grant) but soon we saw them struggle as Fiona gradually losses her memory of Grant's time with her.There by introducing a difference in the innocent young love and the old memories dying out due to age.]]> 2019-11-25 03:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415979359 1411391 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415980182 Communication is vital to Shoba and Shukumar's relationship- and their lack of it after their baby dies prove fatal to their continued love towards each other. Their unexpressed feelings lead their relationship to crumble and them to feel uncomfortable towards each other- their final confession of themselves towards each other mends this rift in communication albeit with still visible cracks in their relationship, and allows them to understand each other again.]]> 2019-11-25 03:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415980182 15110512 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415980444 The girl didn’t seem to have spoken to the boy at all. As she does not know a thing about him. whether it is where he lived, what his parents are like or if he truly does need her.]]> 2019-11-25 03:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415980444 15110512 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415981120 It shows how young children can easily dream and imagine a perfect world. And once their perfect world is crushed by reality that is when they start to grow out of their youthful thoughts. But at the end we can also see young children can go back to dreaming and ‘forget’ reality.]]> 2019-11-25 03:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415981120 1411391 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415981824 The boy envisions the bazaar as something exotic and spectacular but it turns out to be nothing more than a wasted dream/empty and lifeless. ]]> 2019-11-25 03:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415981824 15110512 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415982195 The boy expected his Uncle to remember and give him the money to go to the Bazaar, get a gift for the girl he likes,go back to her and hopefully they get closer. The reality he git was his Uncle forgot, he as late to the Bazaar that the shops began to lose, he couldn’t get a git and he realised that he was a creature driven by vanity.]]> 2019-11-25 03:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415982195 15110512 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415983373 Grant expected Fiona to remember him and the past they had. Reality was that Fiona might have forgotten and is now with a guy friend names Aubrey in the middle of the story.]]> 2019-11-25 03:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415983373 1510921 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415983680  The main protagonist in “A Memory” has a delusion that the world around her is “perfect”. She also has a love interest that she herself has never spoken to nor does she even know his name, and of course vice versa.  She claims that she fell “in love for the first time”  but they only passed by the stairs and touched wrists. However, I doubt the boy in the scenario barely noticed their wrists grazed against each other or brushed it off as an accident. Therefore the love that the girl feels for her love is one-sided.]]> 2019-11-25 03:57:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415983680 1511112 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415985851 At the end of the story, the boy overhears a trite conversation between an English girl working at the bazaar and two young men, and he suddenly realizes that he has been confusing things. It dawns on him that the bazaar, which he thought would be so exotic and exciting, is really only a commercialized place to buy things. Furthermore, he now realizes that Mangan's sister is just a girl who will not care whether he fulfills his promise to buy her something at the bazaar. His conversation with Mangan's sister, during which he promised he would buy her something, was really only small talk—as meaningless as the one between the English girl and her companions. He leaves Araby feeling ashamed and upset. This epiphany signals a change in the narrator—from an innocent, idealistic boy to an adolescent dealing with the harsh realities of life.]]> 2019-11-25 04:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415985851 1511112 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415986613 The boy set out for the Araby bazaar to get something for the girl, but instead of leaving with a gift of some sort, he left with “anguish and anger.” It eventually dawned on him that this love lacks substance. He came to the brutal realization that his efforts have been nothing but follies.  Indeed, Araby is one saddening account of the rupture of a fantasy.]]> 2019-11-25 04:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415986613 1511112 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415987298 Just as the young boy is betrayed by his physical body when he suffers a nosebleed, the memory is betrayed by a world that contains the ugly reality of the family of bathers. Life is not perfection, nor is it orderliness; instead it is a messy span of seventy or so years, where age reduces beauty to wrinkles and fat, and where the cherished perfection of a newly budded body must be replaced by the casual indifference the fat woman shows as she dumps sand from her bathing suit. Her body is no longer a shrine, but merely a home for her spirit, filled with cracked linoleum and peeling paint.]]> 2019-11-25 04:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/shortstoriesthemes/wish/415987298