YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Story of the Pearl
Essays 151 - 180
tempered (Teenink). She also seemingly has an apparent lack of feeling for art (Hurley). But, Catharina is obviously wary of Griet...
opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...
is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
socialism (Stone 14). The story is one that shows the societal structure and the flaws of the bourgeoisie and the reasons behind...
the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...
was not until 1624 and the publication of Smiths The Generall Historie of Virginia...&c., that Smith told the story that "as man...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
of the unsolvable interlinked labyrinth through the pursuits of Yu Tsun, the great grandchild of the philosopher Tsui Pen who quit...
difficult time creating a cohesive worldview. Because of this the aboriginal people often had to struggle with ways in which to un...
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
parents simply abandoned the children. There are many directions such a story could take. In this case one could claim that the pa...
friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...
in 1892, tells the story of a woman who is diagnosed with a psychological disorder and is subjected to the prevailing treatments o...
decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...
may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...