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a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

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

not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...

clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

tale: "The stories include The Courtship of Mr. Lyon,] a fairly straightforward interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, which is a...

such a position where this is his best hope. His entire family seems thrilled that he can have such a good job with good pay, neve...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

is forced to live in darkness. The child, the reader is told, is about nine or ten years old, lives on a half bowl of cornmeal a...

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...

life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...

this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...

a lady....

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

life must endure social intolerance at one time or another; however, certain groups face prejudicial persecution on a regular basi...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

from Londons story which illustrates how the man is ignorant and in need of the weather to make him strong and enlightened: "But a...

she is known for. This particular compilation of stories was written prior to her incredible fame and would thus indicate that she...

other words it compels the reader to say, "What?!" or "Whoah. What happens next?" or "Wow, how did this happen?" Any combination ...

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

this only comes in the form of regret at the end. In fact, if anyone were to be bitter about things, it would have to be the gra...

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

ended as they could have logically ended. So, too, it must be stated that this spelling out of the ending of the mysteries is a ...

is mystical and unexplainable, in the house. They understand that they cannot necessarily see what is taking place, or truly put t...

journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...