Essays 271 - 300
right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...
inner most desire is that God would "notice and...talk to him also" as he did to men in the Old Testament (55). Bentley comes to s...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" and O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story". Various ...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the story The Scarlet Letter. This paper includes how the theme and parts of the novel refl...
This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...
This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...
There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...
This essay discusses the themes, symbolism and context of the conflict between the genders that defines this Hemingway short story...
it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...
This essay analyzes the meaning of Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B." Three pages n length, two sources are cited. ...
brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...
journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...
with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...
in Will in order to save him from going to jail after Will assaults a police officer. This in turn establishes the time frame whic...
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
Holland was a shell of a soldier, sitting on a bench at the beach in San Francisco when Pearlie saw him and recognized him instant...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
and his courage will constantly be tested. Without going into great detail, and there is a large amount of it in this classic, we ...
the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...
mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...
one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...
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 ...
reminiscent of real people experiencing real social pain and suffering, in spite of the fact that Mathilde chose to wallow in what...
sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...