Essays 421 - 450
free; and Joy, whose miserable disposition is anything but joyful. It is Joy who is the chief protagonist, an educated 32-year-ol...
to kill, the speaker insists on frequently and rather adamantly reminding us that he is not mad. As the story reads on, I found m...
In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...
Short essays totalling ten pages consider dying and death or 'near death' in writings by Waechter and Moody and bereavement accord...
In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....
Rime of the Ancient Mariner reflects a significance quite distinguishable in its ability to address faith human conflict with mere...
interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
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" ...
important, yet we are not really told who it is. We are puzzled at one point for the narrator uses the word I in such a way that i...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
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...
does not temper "love with wrath" (Stumb, 19999). Julian is quoted as having said, that she could see "no sort of anger in God, ho...
a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...
a savage and hostile environment." "Now, now," said the other man in the room, Robert Beverly. "We have forgotten ourselves. This...
achieving efficient operation. In his well known example of the operation of the pin factory, Smith (1776) describes the division...
Tanenbaum points out, "Even today a common way to damage a womans credibility is to call her a slut" (2000, p. 2). In many ways, ...
his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...
learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...
real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...
actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...
story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
In five pages the world and religion as man relates to both are considered in the context of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and...
In five pages this essay considers the narrative action and the main theme's implications within the context of the short story. ...
In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...
In five pages this essay analyzes the short story in order to determine that it is an example of feminist literature. Three sourc...
In ten pages authors Max Green and Taylor E. Dark and their opposing perspectives on American labor are examined. Ten sources are...
in the story where a judgment is made concerning the validity of revenge. The argument is made that a killing will not restore ...