YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Fiction Characterization
Essays 1501 - 1530
about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...
fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...
the product and create sales. The initial projections are that sales will amount to $7,973,000 in the first year. However, with co...
with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...
above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...
sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...
suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....
it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...
Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...
this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...
seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...
Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...
In five pages this paper examines how Houston promotes drama and literature through theater and writers groups and considers their...
and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...
a grandfather is made clear as soon as Robert ushers Mr. Winfield into the car. Wiinfields granddaughter, Sheila, greets him. With...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...
connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...
as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...
barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and ther...
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...
of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...
structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...
In five pages the ways in which allegory is used by the author in this short story are discussed. Two sources are cited in the bi...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the protagonist planned to die with dignity in Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 short story. There...