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ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

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

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

a purpose for her life, while she struggled through lifes hardships. The autobiography begins when Anne is four years old and port...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

(Anonymous Booker T. Washington ... one Americas leading educators, 1995; p. 16). This was because Washington taught a subtle kind...

above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

Truth went to bat for every woman when she spoke before a crowd of hostile white people at the 1851 Ohio Womens Rights Convention,...

readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...

of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...

is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...