YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Ounce of Cure by Alice Munro
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about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
perspective it is not always easy to analyse Munros work, since the layering of different narrative threads draws the reader into ...
In five pages Munro's book is summarized in a discussion of its setting, theme, plot, and characterization. There are no other so...
contrasted against the life of her sister, Nora, who is not as down-to-earth as Clara and considered the prettier of the two. Nor...
In three pages this essay concentrates on some elements of the inner lives of the characters to assess how the reader is impacted ...
is portraying the denial or the modesty that many in the field possess. But the story expounds on such themes and at the end, the ...
happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...
her to be a good school girl and she seems just about ready, at the beginning of the story, to break free from this. What happen...
demonstration of Alice Munros unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women" (Codys Books). This illustrates that Munro i...
Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
In five pages four feminist short stories by Alice Munro, Susan Minot, Grace Pale, and Nadine Gordimer are thematically compared ...
Women had few meaty roles in early American literature. This report deals with Cora and Alice Munro from The Last of the Mohicans...
bootleggers and prostitutes and hangers-on lived" (Fraser, 2001; wls-fraser.shtml). She claims that these were the people she knew...
In a paper consisting of six pages this book is examined not only in terms of its reflection on Munro's career and style but how i...
the determinedly conventional housewife role that her best friend, Naomi, so enthusiastically adopts and righteously defends. The...
In five pages the themes of these works are contrasted and compared regarding gender differences, sexuality, and coming of age. T...
is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...
as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...
is the protagonist in the story for it is her story we are essentially watching, although we are watching it often through the liv...
how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...
using heroin and other drugs" (3). The counselors were focused on getting him into another rehab or recovery program, or going to ...
In five pages this paper considers a cure for AIDS and a company's monopoly hold on this cure in terms of direct and indirect econ...
In three pages this paper examines the moral importance of fairytales in this discussion of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and T...
In eight pages these texts by Alice Walker, Mary Louise Pratt, and Alice Walker are examined in terms of unconscious and 'magical'...
In five pages a character analysis of Alice examines within the context of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass. There...
are guards, and nothing is what it seems: "Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet ground in her life: it was all ...
tries to find out what happened to the White Rabbit, but then, later, she is more concerned with finding her way home. At the end ...
equally strong reluctance to leave the comforts of childhood behind. Her childishness is seen in the fact that she seems powerles...
In eight pages of H.H. Munro, aka Saki, is examined in terms of the British author's wit and how its cynicism is rooted in his ear...