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Characters in Open Secrets by Alice Munro

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

Munro’s Meneseteung

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

An Analysis of The Lovely Bones

is the protagonist in the story for it is her story we are essentially watching, although we are watching it often through the liv...

Guilt and Grief in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...

Fairytales and Their Significance

In three pages this paper examines the moral importance of fairytales in this discussion of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and T...

Richard Wright and Alice Munro's Perspectives on Women

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...

Alice Munro's Hired Girl

In five pages Munro's book is summarized in a discussion of its setting, theme, plot, and characterization. There are no other so...

Alice Munro's Fiction

perspective it is not always easy to analyse Munros work, since the layering of different narrative threads draws the reader into ...

What Being a Writer Means in Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

demonstration of Alice Munros unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women" (Codys Books). This illustrates that Munro i...

A Biography of Alice Munro

bootleggers and prostitutes and hangers-on lived" (Fraser, 2001; wls-fraser.shtml). She claims that these were the people she knew...

Women Short Story Writers

In five pages four feminist short stories by Alice Munro, Susan Minot, Grace Pale, and Nadine Gordimer are thematically compared ...

Major Female Characters in Mohicans and Van Winkle

Women had few meaty roles in early American literature. This report deals with Cora and Alice Munro from The Last of the Mohicans...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

In five pages a character analysis of Alice examines within the context of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass. There...

Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

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...

'Prue' by Alice Munro

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...

Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

This essay pertains to "Possessing the Secret of Joy" by Alice Walker. A summary of the plot is given and the writer also discusse...

Three African American Novels, Recurrent Themes

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad

In five pages this essay examines the Young Captain and Leggatt's relationship in The Secret Sharer and the growth symbolism that ...

Child and Adult Voices in Literature for Children

not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Women's Roles

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...

Walker: “Everyday Use”

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...

'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

'Meneseteung' by Alice Munro

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 ...

Eskimo by Alice Munro

In three pages this essay concentrates on some elements of the inner lives of the characters to assess how the reader is impacted ...

The Novel Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

the determinedly conventional housewife role that her best friend, Naomi, so enthusiastically adopts and righteously defends. The...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Boys and Girls by Alice Munro and Doe Season by David Kaplan

In five pages the themes of these works are contrasted and compared regarding gender differences, sexuality, and coming of age. T...

Sexuality and Young Women in Sleeping Beauty by Rosario Ferre and Wild Swans by Alice Munro

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...

The Color Purple and Catcher in the Rye Compared

allows Holden to be dismissive of material concerns. After running away to spend some time in New York City on his own, which is...

Where are You Going, Where Have You Been and Everyday Things

say to her" (Walker,56). Maggie views herself as mentally inferior to Dee or as Walker puts it "she knows she...