Essays 31 - 60
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
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 "...
males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
investigation of the dhamma, energy, rapture or happiness, calm, concentration, and equanimity" (Thera, 2009). The story entitle...
home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...
similarity to the fascinating stories that are in both N. Scott Momadays House Made of Dawn and Anna Linzers Ghost Dancing as the ...
son, to God is record in Genesis 22. God instructed Abraham to take "your son, your only son, whom you love-Isaac-and go to the re...
The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...
This essay looks at "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and presents the argument that this story presents a critique of Southe...
This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...
This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...
In four pages this essay discusses the feminist movement in terms of the story's portrayal of women's relations and mother and dau...
into my own playtime. Whenever I was about to say the contracted word "cant," the little engine would come to mind and Id hear my ...
quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...
This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...