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this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

different we have no possible common ground, we can also justify destroying them. This is why we never consider enemy combatants a...

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...

Don DeLillo are both stories about observation, but they are completely different, and the difference is unsettling for people who...

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...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

son" (Rivera 108). The next day, he will be in charge of his brothers and sisters working in the fields. She warns him "Dont overw...

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

Gregory talks about how his mother got angry when he threw out a free coat and Williams speaks of how his parents loved the kids, ...

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...

woman who has given her life to being a wife and a mother and she is simply trying to understand why her son expects to live his l...

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

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...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...