Essays 1951 - 1980
In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of primary themes, plot, and characterization. There are no other sources li...
offered by A Wrinkle in Time is that the power of love can overcome just about any of lifes obstacles. When one confronts the dar...
In five pages Fernea's story is analyzed in terms of social constructs that are gender based and considers the Eastern cultural ex...
brother. This is where Baldwin sets up another beautiful metaphor: the ice. "A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept...
This research report examines this story and talks about the difficultly of separating in terms of emotional needs and expectation...
In eight pages the varied critical responses to Adams's fiction particularly as it portrayed class is discussed with reference mad...
then her family and has been divorcing herself from them for quite sometime. When Dee arrives she is decked out in bright...
In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...
In six pages this paper examines women's power and how it is portrayed in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God and Ric...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
meaning information positive to the organisations goals. However, for governments, especially in countries where there is freedom ...
much fuller understanding of the feelings and motivations of his fellow men, which is reflected in his sermons. As noted by Eaton ...
In one page the character of Sergeant featured in 'On the Road,' a short story by Langston Hughes, is analyzed. There is no bibli...
This 6 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon and argues that it can be seen as a modern day myth in which a ma...
meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
hygiene she also realizes are very large and she is shocked. This is a significant statement by the wife, since up until this time...
In five pages this paper examines life and humanity in a comparison of the short stories Paul Fussell's 'Thank God for the Atom Bo...
several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...
modern-day utopias that seemed to have the best of everything. There were sporting events, community activities, performing arts,...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...