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fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

constant throughout history. The Prologue features the much-married Dame Alice, who is a shrewd manipulator of men who unabashed...

- and still is to a great degree - the focal point of cultural existence speaks to the way in which Silko (1989) reveals the strug...

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

this argument we see that the giant is the handicapped child. The entire town is frightened of him because he is a giant. He does ...

our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...

stay in the past, feeling that early France is his destiny. This time travelers name is Andr? Marek. II. Mareks Method of Coping...

this country. You were the success story, the big lawyer who fought for us when no one else would. So many times we would speak of...

One of the foremost scholars on the Southwest, Charles Wilkinson, has written a book entitled, The Crossing of the Meridian. The v...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us" (A...

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

on the outside world. In one particular quote the reader gets an understanding of this evolution of the people, as it begins, as o...

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

involved. Julians mother takes center stage as a black woman enters the bus wearing the same hat as his mother. While race certain...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

Once Lynnell reached puberty she didnt mature like normal boys were. Instead, her voice only grew higher and she even began growi...

I smiled and nodded, but I wasnt sure if he was offering me his seat or just making a general observation. "Come on," he said. "...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

to be reducing altitude; since they were on combat patrol they assumed it was an attack (Schank 305). He finished by saying he tho...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...