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...
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...
In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...
In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
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 ...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...
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...
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...
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...
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...
by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...
his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...
sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...
not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...
youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...