The Great Leapfrog Contest and The Good Corn written by HE Bates

In the short stories, “The Good Corn” written by H.E. Bates and “The Great Leapfrog Contest” by William Saroyan techniques such as characters, point of view, setting and structure work together to explore the issue of personal conflict and establish tension between the main characters in each story. An examination of these techniques allow a more enhanced reading of the texts and in turn evoke a particular response from the reader. In the short …

…of characters, setting, point of view and structure all work together to convey the personal dilemmas and tension between the main characters in the short stories “The Good Corn” by H.E. Bates and William Saroyan’s “The Great Leap Frog Contest”. It is through these techniques that the reader is able to respond to the characters in either a positive or negative manner and a more enhanced reading of the texts is made possible.