Essays 571 - 600
would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us" (A...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...
offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
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...
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...
reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...
Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...
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...
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...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...
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...
(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
socialism (Stone 14). The story is one that shows the societal structure and the flaws of the bourgeoisie and the reasons behind...
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...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
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 ...
about the others culture and when each is willing to make compromises for the sake of developing cooperative relationships. The on...