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is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...
it has been going on for so long that nobody remembers why or how it started (Jackson). We also know that this village is not the ...
cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...
enough to truly consider them a hero. For example, Miranda is one who is strong and determined. She wants to change the world and ...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
opens the story by saying that he has heard that when people go through some sort of strange or supernatural experience, they usua...
the Russian culture has long remained something of a mystery as well. Even despite the seemingly mysterious nature of Russian l...
flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...
In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...
it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...
and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...
in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...