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A 5 page paper which examines the short story Small Fires by Helene Littmann. The paper examines the story from perspectives that are developed through multiple readings of the story. No additional sources cited.
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life, her passions, and her seemingly failed endeavors concerning changing the society. She is something of a rebel, a terrorist, as she offers the reader an understanding of how she
had perhaps long ago tossed aside rational and non-violent approaches to change in society. In truth, this story does not necessarily go anywhere in relationship to a plot or a
final outcome, but it is a very intriguing story that all but insists the reader think about the character long after the story has been read the first time. The
following paper examines three different perceptions of the story through multiple readings, demonstrating how ones perspective of a story and the character can change through more than one reading.
Small Fires: Developed Perceptions with Readings In the first reading of this particular story, which was read with the focus on the story pertaining to a possible tragic hero,
the woman seems a bit cold and impersonal. There is nothing that seems truly alive about her despite her apparent desire to change society for the better. This reader did
not feel this way because she was something of a terrorist, because this reader is one who would love to see society change in many powerful ways and can perhaps
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is not one who really cares about other
people for the most part. Such a person is not one who can be cheered on no matter how great and noble their ideals may be. If she cannot elicit
a sense of sympathy or caring in the mind of the reader then she, as noted in the first reading, cannot be seen as someone who is a hero and
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