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The Shawl: Nature and Nurture

major role in shaping our behavior, temperament, and intelligence" (PBS). While nature plays important roles in ones life, the env...

Endo: “A Fifty-Year Old Man”

This 3 page paper discusses the short story “A Fifty-Year Old Man” by Shusaku Endo and answers questions about it. Bibliography li...

Women’s Rights and Hills Like White Elephants

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

Olsen & Tyler On Being a Parent

mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman/The Yellow Wallpaper

A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and the Revenge Theme Nemo me impune lacessit

the supposed "insult" which Fortunato has offered him; he vacillates between a hatred of the man and a reluctant admiration for hi...

Poe's The Raven

but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...

Critically Analyzing John Updike's Short Story 'A and P' A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF UPDIKE'S A&P

what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' to Edgar Allan Poe's 'Purloined Letter'

all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...

Poe's "Cask of Amontillado," Was Montresor Sorry?

a diametrically opposed stance to this view, as it seems much more likely, particularly when one considers Poes careful and meticu...

Poe’s Life and Work

of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...

Poe's tale about Amontillado

This 7 page paper gives an analysis of the story “The Cask of Amontillado”. This paper includes discussion or other articles about...

Angela Carter's 'The Werewolf' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Hop Frog'

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

HALF THE SKY AND EDNA’S HOSPITAL

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

Caroline Knapp's 'Drinking A Love Story'

not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...

Suzanne Loncher's A Brooklyn Rose

a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...

Human Isolation in The Country Doctor and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

Sad Stories of Love: Tristan and His Parents

one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...

Goethe: “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

'The Iron' Heel' of Jack London

From his wife, by the means of her recently discovered manuscript, we find that "Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man. ...

Gregor Samsa's Changes in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

concerned that he cant get up and go to work to support his family. Even from the start, he does not want to be a burden on his fa...

Overview and Analysis of the Story 'The Lady Who Loved Insects'

In five pages a synopsis of this story and an analysis are presented....

Violence in Kaplan's 'Doe Season' and Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In five pages the violence associated with ritual is examined in this comparative analysis of these stories by Kaplan and Jackson....

The Lesson #2 by Toni Cade Bambara

This 5 page paper discusses the central theme of Toni Cade Bambara's story The Lesson #2....

Jamaica Kincaid's 'Seeing England for the First Time' and Columbus in Chains'

Education as it is thematically depicted in these Jamaica Kincaid stories is the focus of this comparative analysis consisting of ...

Dan Hillman's The Peaceful Warrior

may have perceived myself as a moderate, it has been brought home to me enough times, that I can no longer pretend it is my person...

'A Clean Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

This paper consisting of six pages argues that in this story art reflects life as the common denominator linking Hemingway to his ...

James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues,' Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and Maturity

In three pages this paper contrasts and compares how the maturity theme is featured in each of these stories....

Human Psychology in William Faulkner's Sanctuary and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...