Essays 391 - 420
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
The story's romantic aspects and how the effects of slavery are minimized by this emphasis are discussed in a paper that consists ...
In five pages the story's juxtapositioning of the subconscious and conscious of main characters Jack Fergusson and Mabel Pervin is...
In five pages story is discussed in terms of the ways in which the protagonist's perceptions and actions reflect the author's own ...
This paper consists of five pages and considers how Cassandra's rendition of events represents a play within a play as her word im...
into my own playtime. Whenever I was about to say the contracted word "cant," the little engine would come to mind and Id hear my ...
In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...
The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...
In four pages this essay discusses the feminist movement in terms of the story's portrayal of women's relations and mother and dau...
young lady? (I nod, encouragingly, I hope.) Well, say the fella had an arm or a leg that was , well, missing. Id slap on a tourniq...
This story is discussed in depth and the protagonist is examined. This story contemplates Bebe, the character who threatens her te...
In two pages the author's employment of color and setting in order to emphasize the story's conflicts and represent alienation is ...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...
a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...
then. He gets a very powerful and intriguing adventure when he attempts to pull a ladder into the ship, only to discover a man att...
did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...
white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...
In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...
pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...
a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...
structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
four Aucas showed up at the camp to visit them. The missionaries gave each of the visitors more gifts to demonstrate their intenti...
Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...