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free; and Joy, whose miserable disposition is anything but joyful. It is Joy who is the chief protagonist, an educated 32-year-ol...
In a paper consisting of three pages the theme of suffering is considered within the context of the short story written by James B...
In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of primary themes, plot, and characterization. There are no other sources li...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...
In five pages this paper discusses these themes presented in William Faulkner's short story with also literary elements including ...
In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...
she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...
with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...
letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...
Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...
machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...
but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...
a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...
In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...
to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...
"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...
testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...
decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...
and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...
became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...
"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...
or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...
right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...
inner most desire is that God would "notice and...talk to him also" as he did to men in the Old Testament (55). Bentley comes to s...
reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...
This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...