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The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

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

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

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

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

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...

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...

may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...

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...