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not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...

youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...

fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

We are expanding it (51:47)," is often contended by many scholars in light of the fact that it was not until fairly recently that ...

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...

that could otherwise not be expressed merely by literary methods; rather, photography helps the world understand more about itself...

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

"what the character thinks the truth is, as revealed in speech or action, and what an audience or reader knows the truth to be." ...

(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...

he could write a piece on it, a travel journal of sorts. "Carless was a career diplomat stationed in Kabul who had done a lot of t...

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

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

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

Passion at a distance (Atlantic Baptist University). This author suggests that Peter refers to himself as an eyewitness because "h...

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...

until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...

a surprise! She ... knew. Of course, you always hope for the best. She heard but she didnt hear" (Jones 166). There are several ...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...