Perspectives

To add something extra to your analysis of the short story “Kiss and Tell” by John Sam Jones, we encourage you to consider the literary period and works with the same themes.

Literary period

“Kiss and Tell” is a contemporary postmodernist short story. The story deals with a current issue, sexual orientation in modern times; most postmodernist works also deal with contemporary, post-modern world topics.

The fragmentation of the point of view and the story’s structure (scenes are presented separately through a star - *)...

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Works with the same theme

For the theme of sexuality we recommend that you have a look at short stories like “The Penis” by Hanif Kureishi, or “Dead as They Come” by Ian McEwan.

“The Penis” (Serious business - satire, wit and humour, pp. 79-85) presents surreal, symbolical events as the narrative follows...

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