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Chinese Culture and Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord

In five pages story is discussed in terms of the ways in which the protagonist's perceptions and actions reflect the author's own ...

An Analysis of Two Short Stories from A Bird in the House

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

Father's Role and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the author's feelings concerning a father's role by blurring the past and the present in thi...

Melancholia in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...

The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad Analyzed

Though not his most famous work, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer is a showcase for the author's command of language. This paper ...

An Analysis of John Barth's Short Story, Lost in the Fun House

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

Walter Mosely's American Dream Reflections in Devil in a Blue Dress

In five pages the author's reflections of the American Dream in characterizations of the novel such as that of Easy Rawlins are ex...

Fielding & Inchbald / Morality

A 5 page paper comparing Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story with Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews. The paper concludes that the d...

Robert Beck's A Sociological and Psychological Look at Pimp The Story of My Life

In nine pages Beck's story is examined within the context of psychological and sociological perspectives with social deviance role...

Elements of Short Stories

Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...

Blue Sky Dream by David Beers

Club served by black-skinned mess men, gold wings, an elaborate and ready made construct of self-regard" (7). But when the circum...

Jon Williams' 'Taking Care'

Jon Williams' story 'Taking Care' is analyzed in terms of the story itself as well as the character development in five pages. Th...

Love Letters on Blue Paper by Arnold Wesker

In a paper consisting of ten pages the ways in which the text reflects contemporary attitudes regarding dying and death are examin...

Blues People Negro Music in White America by Leroi Jones

continent, yet, in many ways it has been African-American influences which have stimulated creativity in others, both within the b...

Sherman Alexie and Gish Jen: Dealing with Prejudice

would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us" (A...

Characterization in The Blue Max: The Novel and Film Compared

respect to the character of this man, but the film is limited to visual aspects only. This tends to be true for most any book turn...

Beth Henley's "Am I Blue" - Critical Analysis

carried on into adult years. Adolescence is considered one of the most crucial periods of socialization because of the very press...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

'Scholar's Studio,' 'Red, White And Blue,' 'The Color Red,' and 'Sword And Sheath'

Korea before Japan finally came in and annexed the struggling nation. The year 1910 marked the fall of the Choson Kingdom. The t...

A Review of The Rocking Horse Winner

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

James Joyce's 'A Mother' and Refuting the Interpretation of Martin F. Kearney

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

Mark Rothko's Yellow and Orange and Piet Mondrian's Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow

are similar, but Rothkos colors do not seem as brilliant or vivid. There is a sense that Rothkos was clearly painted with a brush,...

Cinderella's Contemporary Variations

own. But there is a version of Cinderella that is commonly known. This version, or compilation of versions, contains fundamental e...

Bessie Head and Mahasweta Devi's Patriarchy Perspectives

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

Chitra Divakaruni's 'Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter'

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...

The Last Two Sections of 'The Plague' by Albert Camus

on the outside world. In one particular quote the reader gets an understanding of this evolution of the people, as it begins, as o...

Short Stories of Kate Chopin

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and the Narrator

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor and Denial

involved. Julians mother takes center stage as a black woman enters the bus wearing the same hat as his mother. While race certain...

Analysis of Five American Short Stories

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...