Essays 61 - 90
may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...
In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...
Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...
In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...
When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...
the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...
our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...
because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
In six pages this paper examines the cinematic mastery of film director Alfred Hitchcock and some of the techniques he employed th...
In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...
continues to build. The task of finding the real answer falls to the captain of the fist ship. What emerges then is a great myst...
America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...
One of the foremost scholars on the Southwest, Charles Wilkinson, has written a book entitled, The Crossing of the Meridian. The v...
movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...
Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...
In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....
sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...
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...
In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...
In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...