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Essays 61 - 90
Images of sensual passion, nature, belonging, community, pilgrimage, journey, and exile that appear throughout My Antonia by Willa...
This essay offers analysis of "Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather, focusing on how each of the major characters define and percei...
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...
come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...
an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...
On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...
sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...
isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...
we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....
and the culture in which she finds herself having to embrace. She is also alienated by her social class. Antonia, in contrast to J...
the writers within Greenwich Village had in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century. The Greenwich Village writers i...
this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...
homesick. If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not s...
are shaped in childhood. Young Jim is himself is something of an immigrant, the proverbial stranger in a strange land, when he goe...
amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...
about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
she and her brothers Oscar, Lou and Emil all have to work extremely hard, and Oscar and Lou resent her, though this isnt revealed ...
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...
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...
of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school"( Cather 172)...
changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...
relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...
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...
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 ...
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...
to come. It is, as noted, a relatively simple story. But, at the same time, without the deep psychological reading she is...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...