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a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...

main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...

she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...

This 4 page paper discusses four of E.A. Poe's short stories, and critical reaction to his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources....

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...

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...

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

(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...

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

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

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...

soul to the devil for what he desires. This relates well to Paul for he is a man who will do anything to live, if even only for a ...

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

theme. Without the skill of Munro, the themes might be buried with just a scant plot controlling the movement of the characters. Y...

of passion in their lives, this somber existence. The mood is also set by the tone as it develops along with the plot. In Lawrence...

rest of the family. There is a picture of a women wrapped in furs, which hangs on one of the walls in Gregors room. This may be...

a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...

This 5 page paper argues that Phoenix Jackson, the protagonist of Eudora Welty's story A Worn Path, is mentally ill. The writer al...

dynamic. The couple was reunited after a period of ten years, but John is too preoccupied with what he perceives to be his ultima...

In six pages dramas by Wenders and Brecht are compared with this 1924 story by Franz Kafka in a consideration of meaning and symbo...

and upper-class Germans, yet even those tales were traced from India and the Middle East (Schulte-Peevers). They were passed down ...

In seven pages this paper examines the character and symbolism featured in this story by James Joyce. Seven sources are cited in ...

In five pages this story is analyzed in terms of the importance of color symbolism. There are no other sources listed....

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

is a classic "quest" tale; the description of a mans journey through a strange new world, in this case, Detroit, Michigan. This pa...

Invisible Man, a searing portrait of the way in which society ignores the African-Americans in its midst-making them "invisible." ...