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Essays 331 - 360
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...
a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...
story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
reveal the ages old cobblestones beneath. I am always amazed that the cobblestones, which are obviously older than the concrete ne...
learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...
real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...
actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...
his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...
The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...
attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...
according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...
In five pages this essay considers the narrative action and the main theme's implications within the context of the short story. ...
In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...
in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...
does not temper "love with wrath" (Stumb, 19999). Julian is quoted as having said, that she could see "no sort of anger in God, ho...
became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...
lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...
or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...
makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...