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Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

Calixta in “The Storm”

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...

Willa Cather and Amy Tan and Point of View

view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...

Nawabdin Electrician

whom he ultimately has no sympathy for, indicating very strongly that the character of Nawab knows that people make their own choi...

A Simple Ordinary Bus Ride

story that provide real insight into human motivation in the space of a very few words. This paper analyses the story. Discussion ...

Sherman Alexie’s Integration

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

Tim O’Brien’s Ambush

was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...

Telling Stories about Vietnam

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

Murder and Its Link to the A&P

In the OConnor story, a family comprised of a husband and wife, their two children and the husbands mother take a road trip. Altho...

Thematic Comparison of Short Stories ‘Newton’s Gift’ by Paul J. Nahin, ‘Absolutely Inflexible’ by Robert Silverberg, and ‘Meddler’ by Philip K. Dick

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

A Film Adaptation/Soldier's Home

adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...

Joyce and Hughes/Loss in 2 Short Stories

OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...

My Teaching Job in Burma

was I really going to be able to make it here for six months? I felt bad thinking this way - this was my parents home once, after ...

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

Religion and John Updike

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

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

Snake Symbolism in 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

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...

Fashion and Status in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

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

'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan and Identity

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

'The Business Man' by Edgar Allan Poe

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

Aging in 'Minuet' by Guy de Maupassant

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

'The Shawl' by Cynthia Ozick and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

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

Mrs. Freeman and the Short Story 'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor

a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...

Mahasweta Devi and Naguib Mahfouz on Life and Death

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 ...

'Eveline' by James Joyce and Religion

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...

Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

'I Want to Live!' by Thom Jones

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

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Their Narrators' Unreliability

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...