YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Stories by Adam Haslett
Essays 91 - 120
youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...
Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...
his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...
sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...
not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...
by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...
a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...
concerned that he cant get up and go to work to support his family. Even from the start, he does not want to be a burden on his fa...
studying the nature outside the window, and begins to allow us to see that she is experiencing something far more profound and far...
On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...
we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...
isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...
of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...
an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
the controls and values that are applied in the way that man comes together in a state and the applications of morals categorizati...
A 3 page paper which examines the work King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild. No additional sources cited....
and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...
good for the people who work in those industries (Smith mentions corn, wool, silk and linen), but not for everyone equally; Smith ...
working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...
to bring a great flood that would cover the earth but Noah was a righteous man and God decided to save humanity through Noah and H...
with the flat, painted Roman designs being translated into low-relief carved plaster, and the atmosphere of the whole room elevate...
layer that is closest to the child and which contains the relational features with which the child has direct contact (Paquette an...
world society as though they were controlling the pieces on a chessboard, every individual in that great game of chess has the inn...
("Master"). It is also believed by scholars that the extensive biblical cycle contained in the Rohan Hours is based on the Bible m...