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exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

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 ...

gone with him there are several ways in which this could have altered the story. The first example will discuss how the story coul...

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

other nations, acting in commercial or diplomatic positions (The Literature Network). Then in 1385 he apparently lost his job as w...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...

monstrous Green Knight after having already shown that he is unmarred when his own head is cut off (Norton 218). There is a great ...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...

matters into his own hands, a reality perhaps perceived by the oracle. He believes the predictions of the witches, and thinks that...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of the Salem witch trials presented in Francis Hill's A Delusion of Sata...

then. He gets a very powerful and intriguing adventure when he attempts to pull a ladder into the ship, only to discover a man att...

the stop by a river and it seems everything is fine, but Henry is too far gone to be helped. He jumps into the river and drowns; L...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

four Aucas showed up at the camp to visit them. The missionaries gave each of the visitors more gifts to demonstrate their intenti...

Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...

he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...

he holds the cloth and in his right, the knife; there is blood on the cloth, the red making a contrast to the snowy white. The mes...

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

socialism (Stone 14). The story is one that shows the societal structure and the flaws of the bourgeoisie and the reasons behind...