Essays 271 - 300
question, one of the jurors came up to her later and told her, "I dont want you to think it was unanimous--it wasnt" (Sereny 360)....
first examines Forsters story and then examines particular thematic elements from the story that seem quite relevant today. These ...
to think about such things, yet memories continue to crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories a...
age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...
the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...
OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...
Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...
Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...
"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 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 ...
three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...
postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...
Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...