Essays 271 - 300
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...
part of the illusionary world. Laura, on the other hand, thinks of the fire escape as a way in and not a way out. This can be seen...
can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...
seem to represent the mocking bird are the threats of hatred, prejudice and ignorance. Innocent people such as Tom Robinson and Bo...
powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...
In three pages this paper analyzes the symbolism of Gwendolyn Brooks' poem 'The Life of Lincoln.' One source is cited in the bibl...
humanity. They represent this relationship and offer us a very humble and simple setting from which to examine the unfolding saga....
"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...
so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....
survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...
of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...
all of its aspects. This also ties in with the idea that they are traveling to the city of Canterbury to be redeemed. Here, the po...
At the same time, however, it reflects a twinge of sadness with Allens passing and the importance it played in his life year after...
and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...
ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...
waxed Japanese car with personalized plates" hits Candido on a road going through the canyon (Boyle 3). While the lives of these t...
attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...
novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...
behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...
has not lost beauty, only become more spiritually connected with the land as she takes on the guise of earth. This is because she ...
moral Shady Hill. Strangely enough, considering that description, there is a great deal of humor in the story, not the least of wh...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...
him become worried at this change of character and personality. Everyone offers their opinion, but the Queen decides that she will...
again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...
opens through the view of the narrator, a young man who ends up spending the night at Ethans house because of a chance blizzard. H...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
dissects both the outer meaning of the object and what that object is meant to determine in a deeper sense; and how those objects ...
In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...