Essays 121 - 150
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...
In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...
In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...
In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...
with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...