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as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

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

growth in the 1990s and economic well being of the city residents in 2000 (Vey, 2007). Two indices of economic health were create...

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

for contemporary social issues has been reflected in her thirteen books. In 2001, her text Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By ...

which hold the possibility of balancing "diplomatic and informational power."vii Nye believes that the U.S. should take a stand be...

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...

one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...

a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...

his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...

sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...

youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...

by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

1960s "introduced the theory that children are not born with a gender identity, but rather form an understanding of gender through...

know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...