Essays 391 - 420
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
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 ...
period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...
socialism (Stone 14). The story is one that shows the societal structure and the flaws of the bourgeoisie and the reasons behind...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
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...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
difficult time creating a cohesive worldview. Because of this the aboriginal people often had to struggle with ways in which to un...
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...
parents simply abandoned the children. There are many directions such a story could take. In this case one could claim that the pa...
was not until 1624 and the publication of Smiths The Generall Historie of Virginia...&c., that Smith told the story that "as man...
the stop by a river and it seems everything is fine, but Henry is too far gone to be helped. He jumps into the river and drowns; L...
four Aucas showed up at the camp to visit them. The missionaries gave each of the visitors more gifts to demonstrate their intenti...
Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...
he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...
he holds the cloth and in his right, the knife; there is blood on the cloth, the red making a contrast to the snowy white. The mes...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
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...
but they carried him 1,000 feet and not the remaining 500 feet. The Japanese gave the man food and water and reported he was "list...
males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...
revolved around her. She was, in many ways, experimenting with her sexuality as well, a very significant part in coming of age. Sh...
(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...