Short Story Review
Summary :
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- A quick recap
- The narrative stance on a creature
- The distinctive differences between the two papers
- The reoccurring theme
- Conclusion
Abstract
Readers love the story of the predator and the prey, regardless of where or with whom the sympathy falls. A tale of survival or near-survival keeps us craving more, and if the creator or messenger of that story can secretly divulge wisdom along the way, then both reader and author benefit.
Using a similar objective and a common motivation for their pieces, we can see that both Plumwood and Stark's essays seek to educate their reader, while masking this behind a veil of entertainment. Furthermore, both pieces use contrasting writing styles to portray their stories of fight or flight, and to portray a theme that mankind needs to humble itself in regards to nature. Peter Stark's essay "The Sting of the Assassin" seeks to relate a story of one of the world's more deadly jellyfish, the box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri). Stark weaves his informative essay with a purely fictional tale regarding struggling newlyweds. Val Plumwood's essay "Being Prey" contains none of the dialogue that "Assassin" uses, but the story may even be more powerful as the reader knows this story not only could happen, but did.
Using a similar objective and a common motivation for their pieces, we can see that both Plumwood and Stark's essays seek to educate their reader, while masking this behind a veil of entertainment. Furthermore, both pieces use contrasting writing styles to portray their stories of fight or flight, and to portray a theme that mankind needs to humble itself in regards to nature. Peter Stark's essay "The Sting of the Assassin" seeks to relate a story of one of the world's more deadly jellyfish, the box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri). Stark weaves his informative essay with a purely fictional tale regarding struggling newlyweds. Val Plumwood's essay "Being Prey" contains none of the dialogue that "Assassin" uses, but the story may even be more powerful as the reader knows this story not only could happen, but did.
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