Essays 271 - 300
In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....
OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...
"loved the old man" and had "no desire" for his gold (Poe "Tell-Tale Heart"). Why then, did he become obsessed with the idea of mu...
narratives opening reveals. Hesiod pictures the "Void or Chaos" as primordial environment, then comes Earth (Gaia) and then Ero...
substantiates this position by indicating that the origins of Job can be found in folk poetry, but also believes that the beauty o...
their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...
that her mother "had never really had a friend of her own before" and it is clear that the friendship means a great deal to both w...
understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
his victories against large predators to his faith in God. Scholarship points out that many features of this narrative relate to...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...
This essay pertains to "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)" by Junot Diaz. Referring to a description if...
There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...
This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...
This essay discusses the themes, symbolism and context of the conflict between the genders that defines this Hemingway short story...
This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...
This essay pertain to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." The writer discusses plot, metaphor, s...
This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...
This essay is on "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith. This novel relates the stories of a multiethnic cast of characters, focusing partic...
This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...
In five pages this essay considers the narrative action and the main theme's implications within the context of the short story. ...
another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...
In five pages this essay considers the theme of leaving home as experienced by the protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's 'A Soldier's...
in the story where a judgment is made concerning the validity of revenge. The argument is made that a killing will not restore ...
who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...