Essays 31 - 60
at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...
This essay describes "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson in regards to the positive and negative aspects of tradition. Three pages in...
trials, Jackson is able to show, through extrapolation, the trials faced by actual Indians in real life. The careful selection o...
In five pages the violence associated with ritual is examined in this comparative analysis of these stories by Kaplan and Jackson....
In six pages this paper examines the perspectives of Venturi, Rossi, and Jackson within the context of the perception that history...
It can be argued that this connection provided significant insight to the concepts about which the writer wrote. When one conside...
In eight pages these two supernatural tales are analyzed in a comparison and contrast of similarities and differences. There are ...
In five pages this paper discusses how women are subjected to oppression by men in these 2 short stories by Shirley Jackson. Seve...
In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how evil is thematically depicted in these short stories. There are 2 sources cited ...
In an essay consisting of 5 pages, this paper considers the discrimination against the Duke in much the same way as today's mental...
the reader with picture-perfect images. As one author notes, in regards to this story, "Through joyous rituals, LeGuin outlines pa...
image was incredibly different than all others from the same approximate moment for it "captured the totality of the moment on a s...
In five page this paper analyzes Ramona in a consideration of racial ethnic problems featured within. Two sources are cited in th...
In five pages Twain's use of metaphors in this novel are analyzed in a consideration of Jackson's Island and how this symbolically...
an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...
during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...
small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...
contemporary society. "People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at t...
that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...
In five pages this paper considers the Native American responses to Anglos as depicted in the 1884 text in a discussion of whether...
In five pages this paper presents a short story analysis of the Tessie Hutchinson character and the setting with the importance of...
In seven pages this report presents a synopsis of the famous short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in 1948. The...
In five pages racial relationships are examined within the context of the novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. There are no other sources...
In ten pages this research paper analyzes the famous short story in terms of its conflict between minority or individual rights ve...
In five pages this paper analyzes the social message contained in this short story of human sacrifice to ensure fertile agricultur...
In five pages this paper examines how the ending is foreshadowed throughout various events in the short story with its symbolism a...
against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...