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Two Short Stories on the Family

Raymond Carver's A Small Good Thing and John Updike's Separating both deal with the family. This paper examines the two short stor...

Film and Book 'Short Cuts'

highly stylized, live-action staging of the cartoon characters of POPEYE (1980), director Robert Altman was banished from Hollywoo...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Short Fiction of Raymond Carver

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

A Small Good Thing

This 8 page essay reviews to Raymond Carver's style in this work in relationship to his style in other works. 4 sources are cited...

Transience and Elasticity of Love

characters and their quest for happiness, despite the fact their lives are typically mired in chaos and confusion. Carver presents...

Literature, Self, and Identity

understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...

Comparing Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

In five pages this research paper compares and contrasts Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes whose works flourished during the ...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

Langston Hughes, Salvation

that Jesus would come to him and change him and that he would feel different. He waited for the difference to occur. The adult m...

Langston Hughes: “Theme for English B”

things in daily life that he does. Despite this, he and his classmates have a lot in common: they all need to sleep, drink and e...

Three Poets: Dickinson, Frost and Hughes

safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Langston Hughes, Three Poems

This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...

Prejudice against the Disabled

hallmark of cinematic portrayals of blindness in the 1960s and 70s, dramatized the fears of the able-bodied concerning disability,...

Bluest Eye, Sonny Blues and Cathedra

is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...

Raymond Carver/"Little Things" and "Mine"

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

'A Small Good Thing' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report examines how existential reality and daily life's transitory nature are depicted in the 1983 short story...

Kate Chopin and Raymond Carver on Love

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

Three Stories and the Damage of Social Stereotypes and Prejudice

is duly noted is with the different names that people of all ethnic origins - including African-Americans themselves - use to iden...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

Raymond Carver and Relationships

that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...

Life and Writings of Raymond Carver

making a comeback"(Carver 2003). This was the turning point for Carver. Many of his works are shaped by a sense of...

Carver and Capote - Driven Writers

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the works of Raymond Carver and Truman Capote. The writer considers why it is that author...

Langston Hughes' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers'

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, meaning, and themes of Langston Hughes' poem 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers.' Four ...

Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison on Individual Choices

In five pages this paper compares Beloved by Toni Morrison with Langston Hughes' 'Montage of a Dream Deferred' in a consideration ...

Process of Poetry

has to "face the men of the time" and "think about war," in order to "construct a new stage" (Of Modern Poetry...Stevens). What St...

'Let America Be America Again' by Langston Hughes

In five pages this paper presents a poetic explication of the work by Langston Hughes in a discussion of what exactly 'land of the...

Biographical and Career Profile of Langston Hughes

In five pages this research paper examines the life and writing career of Langston Hughes which during the Harlem Renaissance of t...

'Weary Blues' by Langston Hughes

Hughes indicates the basic characteristics of the music that a black man plays at a piano. The alliteration between "droning" and...