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'The Collector of Treasures' by Bessie Head

Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...

John O'Hara's 'Straight Pool'

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright and the Gun's Role

do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....

Symbolism in 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

American Horror Writing and the Influence of British Authors

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

Sample of Creative Writing, 'Wild Strawberries'

it looks like a Holstein calf, and she is waggin her finger at me and sayin, "Child, you got to grab hold of the things you want i...

Gender Relations in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Sweat' and Their Eyes Were Watching God

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

Themes of Good and Evil in Two Works by Poe and Morrison

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...

Louise Erdrich's 'Saint Marie' and Character Analyses

that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...

Force and William Carlos Williams' 'The Use of Force'

of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...

Protagonist's Fate in 'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence

they are poor because they have no luck. Paul, being a small child, thinks that luck is a tangible object to be found, obtained or...

Puritanism of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

Short Stories 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor' and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne Compared

traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...

Contemporary Executions and George Orwell's 'A Hanging'

them on their journey to death are, more often than not, lacking in any sympathy or emotion, just as the characters in the end of ...

Analysis of 'The Man Who Was Almost a Man' by Richard Wright

likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an an...

Sammy in 'A and P' by John Updike

Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...

Trying to Find Meaning in 'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...

Aging in 'Minuet' by Guy de Maupassant

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

Mrs. Freeman and the Short Story 'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor

a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Setting in 'Araby' by James Joyce

In five pages this paper examines how the author effectively utilizes setting in this moving short story. Four sources are cited ...

Parents in the Fiction of Guy de Maupassant

In five pages this paper examines the French author's short stories 'Mademoiselle Fifi' and 'Boule de Suif' in terms of how they r...

Definitive Myth of 'A Country Doctor' by Franz Kafka

In five pages Kafka's nightmarish short story is examined in terms of its contemporary myth functionality. There are 7 sources ci...

'The Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka

In four pages Kafka's effective tongue in cheek literary style is examined within the context of this humorous short story. There...

Marxist Rhetoric in 'The Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka

predictable of a portrayal for a writer as talented as Kafka. It has almost become cliche for writers to appear as either the poo...

Character Analysis of Gregor in 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

In two pages this paper examines Gregor as featured in Kafka's short story with the emphasis upon his loneliness. There is no bib...

'Telephone Call' by Alifa Rifaat

In four pages this short story from Distant View of a Minaret is analyzed in terms of the call's symbolism. There is 1 source cit...

The Wall by Jean Paul Sartre

In one pages this short story by Existentialist philosopher and writer Jean Paul Sartre is summarized. There are no sources inclu...