Essays 361 - 390
blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...
does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...
Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
daddy longlegs in the evening hours is a good omen, a portent of good luck" (Ross). In another painting a critic for...
main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...
these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...
complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...
that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...
a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadv...
behavior. The influence of such forces can seem so over-powering that the parent eventually stops trying, emotionally abandoning c...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
usually considered a teacher, or guide. The point is that the stories in this book use a great deal of symbolism, perhaps because...
in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...
life, becoming bitter and angry. In essence they could well become poisonous to themselves and others around them because they hav...
61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...
this man, had sufficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then, like a great bird with ro...
1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...
1997 to wild acclaim (J.K. Rowling b). The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets appeared in 1998, Harry Potter and...
function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...
is a classic "quest" tale; the description of a mans journey through a strange new world, in this case, Detroit, Michigan. This pa...
the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...
the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...
the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...
into the word and lasts for only a few minutes before a decrescendo takes the music into the Russian folk dance theme, which comme...
and possibly guilty over Luxs reaction to her initiation to sex. Lux is extremely young and a strictly raised and sheltered Cathol...
the story opens, Tom is owned by Arthur Shelby but as the story unfolds, he is sold, where he befriends a white woman, even saving...
an intriguing plot concerning a ministers request to never remove the curious black veil he wears. When he dies, should the congre...
intelligent. She is made to remain aloof from all people in this relationship. The buzzards at this point could well be related to...
portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...