YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Master and Man Short Story by Leo Tolstoy
Essays 241 - 270
This ten page report analyzes the characters Jake and Brett, comparing them to the other men in the story. The thesis is presente...
us are perhaps afraid to pursue the thing that would make us the most happy but is likely to also be the most risky. We may fear ...
Melville is describing again the schoolmaster not just as an animal carrying out instinctual actions, but is describing his behavi...
student to determine what their perspective is in relationship to the various characters discovery or pursuit of meaning. Our f...
This 4 page paper gives a reflection of a story concerning two towns separated by their opinions concerning a young man's death. T...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
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...
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...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...
still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...
it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...
always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...
one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...
The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...
his rights to the Congo--his personal rights. The region only became known as the Belgian Congo and was ruled by the Belgian gover...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...