Amado C
Mahawan
ONLINE PORTFOLIO FOR POEM, FICTION, SCRIPT
I created this portfolio to help my fellow students know the difference between a poem, fiction, and script and also to give them a few examples.
- Angels and blueberries
- Baby dolla
- Curriculum
- give it up
- GIRL
POEMS
Becky Robinson
sejaL shah
TARA CAMPBELL
franZ khka
Jamaica kinciad
- The Great Gatsby
- Jane Eyre
- Anna Karenina
- The Catcher in the Rye
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
Fiction
Gabriel García Márquez
J. D. Salinger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charlotte Brontë
Leo Tolstoy
Word count: 744 words
First lines: “Why is the sky blue?” you ask. Well, it all depends on who’s answering.
Campbell’s sweet, wholesome story posits various explanations for the color of the sky, one of which (naturally) involves angels and blueberries. Besides making you crave a fruit smoothie, it’ll open your eyes to the delightful possibilities of imagination when we disregard science for a few minutes.
TARA CAMPBELL
Becky Robinson
Word count: 175 words
First line: My mother isn’t always Raggedy Ann, but she was when I was born.
This super-quick vignette from Becky Robison manages to be profoundly moving and disturbing at the same time. It details the circumstances of the narrator’s birth, during which her mother was dressed as Raggedy Ann… or had perhaps morphed into her, depending on how you interpret the poetic prose.
sejaL shah
Word count: 490 words
First lines: The map was printed on a handkerchief. It is a map of a place that no longer exists.
One of the most praised pieces of flash fiction examples in recent memory, “Curriculum” is divided into three parts: Area Studies, Women’s Studies, and Visual Studies. As you might expect, however, the details of each are not purely academic, but provide a rich context for the narrator’s life — particularly her relationships to cultural identity, womanhood, and her mother.
Word count: 128 words
First line: It was very early in the morning, the streets clean and deserted, I was walking to the station.
“The Metamorphosis,” “The Trial,” and “The Castle” are all very good stories, but “Give It Up!” is a perfect summation of the Kafkaesque: disconcerting and ultimately hopeless. Clocking in at just over 100 words, it’s also one of the most impressive feats of flash fiction by an author largely known for his full-length works.
Franz Kafka
Jamaica Kincaid
Word count: 681 words
First lines: Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline.
From the author of A Small Place comes this insightful passage on what it means to be a girl, presented in an almost stream-of-consciousness series of instructions. From how to cook and clean to the most appropriate ways to present oneself to men, “Girl” potently demonstrates the many near-impossible standards that women are expected to fulfill without faltering. Don’t worry, though — there are a few surprisingly optimistic moments in the piece as well
"Fiction"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Jane Eyre (/ɛər/ AIR; originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.[2] Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman which follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr Rochester, the
JamCharlotte Brontë
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in installments between 1875 and 1877 and considered one of the pinnacles of world literature.
The narrative centres on the adulterous affair between Anna, wife of Aleksey Karenin, and Count Vronsky, a young bachelor. Karenin’s discovery of the liaison arouses only his concern for his own public image. Anna promises discretion for the sake of her husband and young son but eventually becomes pregnant by Vronsky. After the child is born, Anna and the child accompany Vronsky first to Italy and then to his Russian estate.
The Catcher in the Rye, novel by J.D. Salinger published in 1951. The novel details two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, Holden searches for truth and rails against the “phoniness” of the adult world. He ends up exhausted and emotionally unstable. The events are related after the fact.
J. D. Salinger
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude, novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published in Spanish as Cien años de soledad in 1967. It was considered the author’s masterpiece and the foremost example of his style of magic realism.
SUMMARY: This is the author’s epic tale of seven generations of the Buendía family that also spans a hundred years of turbulent Latin American history, from the postcolonial 1820s to the 1920s. Patriarch José Arcadio Buendía builds the utopian city of Macondo in the middle of a swamp.