A&P

John Updike

(A cashier is working at a store and sees 3 girls walk in. He likes the leader of the group and they're in their bathing suits. His manager tells them they can't wear that in there and the cashier tries to be a hero and quits because the manager told them they have to leave)

The Tell-Tale Heart

Poe

(A man kills the guy he lives with and buries him under the floor board. He goes crazy and cracks when the police show up and tell them exactly where the dead man is)

A Rose For Emily

Faulkner

(An older woman lives in a house where she never comes out of because she killed her lover and has left him there to sleep with every night)

The Paperhanger

Gay

(A little girl is missing. The paperhanger killed her and put her in his toolbox and froze her. After sleeping with her mother, he lays her body next to her mother)

Interpreter of Maladies

Lahiri

(A family takes a trip to India. The wife confesses to the taxi driver that she had an affair and her one child isn't her husband's)

Hills Like White Elephants

Hemingway

(About a woman who is pregnant and they are talking about having an abortion)

How to Date a Brown Girl, Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie

Diaz

(A boy is getting a lesson on dating a brown girl, black girl, white girl or halfie. There are many stereotypes in this book)

A Good Man is Hard to Find\

O'Connor

(A grandma, her child, and his grandchildren go on a trip to Florida where the Misfit has escaped from prison. They run into him and the reader can assume that he kills all of them)

How to Become a Writer

Moore

(The writings of how one girl gets to be a writer even though everyone else thinks her writing is bad)

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been

Oates

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Russell

(A vampire man finds his love who says that he doesn't have to suck blood to quench his thirst. She says that the lemons will quench it. They live in the Lemon Grove and at the end their love disinigrates and the man vampire goes back to his old ways and kills a girl)

Greasy Lake

Boyle

(3 boys go to Greasy Lake to have a good time. They end up getting in a fight with a man and think they kill him and try to rape a girl. They run and the main character runs into the lake and finds a dead body. At the end, the boys realize they really aren't bad but are wannabes)

Bullet to the Brain

Wolff

(A literary critic goes to a bank and mocks the robbers. He gets shot and as the bullet is going through his brain he realizes the true things he really appreciated which was playing baseball with his cousins)

Sea Oak

Saunders

(A stripper man living with his aunt bernie, cousin and sister and their babies live in poverty. Their aunt Bernie dies and her body comes back to life telling them that she never got anything in life and died with nothing. She scares them into doing something with their lives)

The Black Cat

Poe

The House on Mango Street

Cisneros

(A woman moves to different places all in poverty neighborhoods and dreams of living in her own house and finally does)

• Supernatural and unusual events
• Helps reveal the cultural character of American South
• Turns charactes into southeners

• Narrative to illustrate a moral
• Usually animals with human traits

• Teaches a moral 
• It can be interpreted in many different ways, unlike fables
• Christian literature is an example

• No complex plot
• Found in folklore
• Less developed characters

• Opening of a narrative
• The scene is set, the protagonist is introduced and other background information is told

• Struggle between two or more forces
• Occurs when someone or something prevents the protagonist from acheiving a goal

• Greatest intensity in the story
• Usually happens at the end
• Usually a conflict between the protagonist and antagonist

• Resolution or conclusion of a story

• Final part of the narrative

• A scene relived in a character's memory
• Can be related by the narrator in the summary or experienced by the character

• A moment of insight or discovery
• A character's life is altered
• Usually occurs during the end of the story

• "In the midst of things"

• Voice of the character 
• Provides the reader with information on the characters in the story

• Someone who intentionally or unintentionally relates an even in a disorted manner

• Only one trait
• Usually not central characters

• A character that grows or changes in a significant way

• Actions and events that unfold in the story

• Referring to as "I"

• Referring as "he" "she" "they"

• Referring to "you"

• The narrator sees into the minds of some but not all characters

• Narrator is able to move freely through any character mind

• Minimal interpretation of character's minds

• Use of various literary devices

• Attituded conveyed in a story

• How an author uses ways to create a literary work

• Word choice or vocabulary

• When a writer says one thing but means another

• Mood or feeling of a story

• Additional meaning of a word

• Literal and dictionary meaning of a word

Round Character

Metaphor