Merriam-Webster describes a short story as a “an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot”. Some of the greatest authors of short stories always know how to captivate humans thoughts and emotions, as stated above, unlike novels short stories are mostly focused on emotions rather than a central plot. Althought short stories and novels differ in many ways, they also have their various similarities. Both have plots and structures, characters, points of views on various topics, setting, tone, symbolism, conflict, and themes. Central point to any story is its plot, this is the whole point of a story, every …show more content…
The setting is important to the story for it creates the tone of the story and can affect the main character and how he reacts to certain situations. Many authors refrain from being too direct with their audience and to avoid an uproar of controversy, this is why most authors use symbollism in their stories. One of the best examples of symbollism is not from a short story, but from a light novel; George Orwell’s Animal Farm where Orwell uses animals as symbolism to express his views towards the Russian Revolution. Orwell uses animals to symbolize actual people like Joseph Stalin and Vladmir Lenin. Symbollism is common throughout literature, the use of an object, a presence, a saying, or even an entity can be forms of symbollism in stories. Conflict is a natural occurrence throughout our life and has always been present throughout human history, so its no wonder conflict is seen throughout any form of entertainment. Short stories include conflict and as theit mostly concentrated on emotions then most of the conflict can be internal rather than external. The idea that conflict is present in everyday life that keeps us on our feet and the truth is in every form of entertainment we want to see conflict, wether its external or internal, conflict will always be entertaining to