Essays 241 - 270
aching muscles, "Nick felt happy," as he has "left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs" (Hemi...
who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...
In fourteen pages the Middle Ages are considered in terms of iconography and Christian symbolism's influence. Ten sources are cit...
This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...
A section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...
In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...
In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...
it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...
a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...
know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...
ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...
about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...
amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...
as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...
we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....
isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...
concerned that he cant get up and go to work to support his family. Even from the start, he does not want to be a burden on his fa...
of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...