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testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...

This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...

This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...

This essay discusses the themes, symbolism and context of the conflict between the genders that defines this Hemingway short story...

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

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

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

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

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 ...

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

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...

In five pages this essay discusses the tragic elements of Oedipus the King in terms of plot, the Chorus' role, plot elements, and ...

In five pages this paper examines how Nina Auerbach's vampire themes of attraction, forbidden love, taking, and desired guilt are ...

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

The powerful themes of temptation, guilt, heresy, and prophecy as they lend to the play's overall effectiveness are considered in ...

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

In eleven pages this paper discusses the themes of sexual neurosis, voyeurism, moralism, and transference of guilt as featured in ...