Essays 61 - 90
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...
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...
Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...
the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...
When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...
because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...
In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...
In six pages this paper examines the cinematic mastery of film director Alfred Hitchcock and some of the techniques he employed th...
our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...
continues to build. The task of finding the real answer falls to the captain of the fist ship. What emerges then is a great myst...
One of the foremost scholars on the Southwest, Charles Wilkinson, has written a book entitled, The Crossing of the Meridian. The v...
America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...
In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....
sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...
Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...
movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...
This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...
In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...
In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...
the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...