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books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...

comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

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

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

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

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

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...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...

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

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

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

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

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

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...