YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Ernest Gaines Short Story The Sky is Gray
Essays 271 - 300
Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...
especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...
Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...
ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...
doesnt let this bother her in the least (Hurston, 1999). Interestingly, despite Janies assertiveness and her obvious independen...
However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...
Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...
prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
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...
of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...
his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...
It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...
It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...
agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...
his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...