Essays 961 - 990
that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...
apply and be accepted into the graduate creative writing program at Boston University; eventually getting her Masters in English, ...
sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...
"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...
thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...
a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...
the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...
Carthage queen, to fall in love with Aeneas. The entire story of Dido and Aeneas brims with fire imagery that demonstrates both Di...
discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...
excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...
prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...
the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...
independence of British rule and the postcolonial and postimperial themes of independence are consistent through "The River Betwee...
of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...
North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An...
that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...
story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...
are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...
to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...
living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...
from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...
her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...
his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...
Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...
insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...
are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...