YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Review of African Short Stories
Essays 31 - 60
of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...
an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...
isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...
we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....
himself as comfortable as he wished" (Kafka 145). During those terrifying early days, when Gregor was uncertain what was overtaki...
This 6 page paper analyzes Eudora Welty's short story A Worn Path. Primary source only....
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...
a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...
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...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
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...
a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...
When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...
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 ...
In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...
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...
that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...