Essays 1861 - 1890
person is only one part of a greater whole. And, Captain Holmes symbolizes this, for the army is his society, his life, his spirit...
is a true lady. She is coming to the city to stay with her sister, and her sisters husband. When she meets her sister, in a bowlin...
Rocky was killed, Emo became an alcoholic and Tayos condition was left uncured by white medicine (Austgen, 2002). Tayo again has...
young boss, Howard Wagner, about easier sales work in town. However, it soon becomes apparent that Willy is to be discarded by h...
truly know the characters from the book and as if their life and times are intertwined with your own. It is truly a miraculous ad...
novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...
The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...
Pegasus. Every morning he woke and sharpened his blades while everyone else was at breakfast. When we finished eating he would ...
bowling alley, she refuses to have her brother-in-law see her yet: ""Oh no, no, no. I wont be looked at in this merciless glare" (...
of contrast, that it is freedom that makes the difference in a man, freedom and experience, not class or social status. Tolstoy p...
His wife does not seem to be well and is anxious all the time about what is to become of them. Obstinately refusing to believe tha...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
Although "The Secret Sharer" was not written until 1909, some thirteen years after his last sea voyage, it is considered one of Co...
fathers death, she sets to the task of making a funeral shroud. Every day she spends hours working on it, then when night comes, s...
obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...
Tovald must deal with those of his subordinates. Despite his law background, he is employed as a bank manager and has a number of...
and brother, "If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing th...
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) donqu2.html). He was beaten, and he returned home where he approaches Sancho and pleads with him...
he recalls when his mother stole a piece of ham just so she could feel it to her family. In another example, he recalls when his ...
for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretched to give back to life the love it gives her" (OBrien Bi...
Burnham and his mid-life angst., a compelling subplot provides a telling commentary on the manner in which homosexuality is percei...
opens through the view of the narrator, a young man who ends up spending the night at Ethans house because of a chance blizzard. H...
see him again he is Sam Hunter and he lives in Los Angeles, melding in with the population and the society. "Financially and socia...
they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...
The four men are tackling the wilderness, in the form of a river in North Georgia, and...
the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...
not know when to stop. Faustus is not happy with the knowledge he has obtained. He feels there is more. He is much like an addic...
depicting what he discovered about each of the victims. The first of these characters is the Marquesa, who is the daughter of a we...
she must attend an ambassadors party and again pass as part of Englands elite. These hurdles seem small in comparison to the hurdl...
at home. He has to find some way to escape without destroying his family the way his father had sixteen years ago. It is for this ...