Essays 301 - 330
to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...
the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...
to think about such things, yet memories continue to crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories a...
according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...
more, this is obvious. We see the complications arise at a particular party: "This noble marchaunt heeld a worthy hous,/ For which...
of my being" (Frankenstein). As with any newborn, his sensory impressions of the world are at first indistinct. He began to attemp...
attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the conflicts in the short stories 'The Other Foot' and 'All Summer in a Day' by R...
In five pages this essay presents the argument that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this short story to reflect his New England Puritanis...
young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...
the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...
their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...
that her mother "had never really had a friend of her own before" and it is clear that the friendship means a great deal to both w...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...
his victories against large predators to his faith in God. Scholarship points out that many features of this narrative relate to...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...
of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...