SEARCH RESULTS

appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...

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...

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...

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...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

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...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...