YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Review of African Short Stories
Essays 571 - 600
her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...
Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...
are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....
to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...
everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...
Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...
to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...
even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...
Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...
she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...
ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...
I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...
However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...
symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...
memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...
actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...
story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...
Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...
Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...
deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...
that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...