Essays 31 - 60
as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...
of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...
an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...
isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...
we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....
this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...
know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...
In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...
it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...
On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...
In five pages this paper presents an original short story romance which is followed by an explanation of the narrative form used....
This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...
about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...
ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
society and no one wants to talk about it, much less have it in the backyard. The solution here is to offer the clinic as a direct...
In five pages this essay examines a Time magazine article on the short life and murder of Bill Cosby's only son Ennis....
"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...