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of the Old South, which is where she bases her identity. She sees the antebellum era and everything about the Southern values in t...

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

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...

This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...

Sylvan Barnet?s A Short Guide To Writing About Literature, foreshadowing in literature "which [one would think] would eliminate su...

demonstrates her own fall from grace. It is because of her distraction with evil -- the Misfit, whom she deems is a quality and u...

This paper consisting of five pages examines the symbolism of trees in terms of the family's fate in this famous Flannery O'Connor...

In four pages the Old and New South are contrasted within the context of this short story by Flannery O'Connor. One source is cit...

In seven pages this paper examines the short story in terms of how it expresses the author's attitudes about religion. Six source...

In five pages the ways in which allegory is used by the author in this short story are discussed. Two sources are cited in the bi...

OConnor utilizes the central theme of Christianity is as a subtle, symbolic plot to convert her readers, whom she had envisioned a...

In five pages the grandmother and the Misfit characterizations are examined with the context of good and evil and how those assump...

OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of the author's use of symbolic images. There are two other sources cited in...

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...

is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...

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 ...

In five pages this paper discusses Shirley Jackson's life, writings, evil as a popular theme, and her most famous short story 'The...

This research paper discusses how 3 different scholars approached and analyzed Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." Additionally, the ...

sea" (LeGuin). As can be seen they are both stories that begin with a simplicity, an almost innocent environment. While Jacksons...

Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

it has been going on for so long that nobody remembers why or how it started (Jackson). We also know that this village is not the ...

what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...

a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...