Essays 541 - 570
The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...
Jon Williams' story 'Taking Care' is analyzed in terms of the story itself as well as the character development in five pages. Th...
Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...
In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...
Though not his most famous work, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer is a showcase for the author's command of language. This paper ...
This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...
period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
socialism (Stone 14). The story is one that shows the societal structure and the flaws of the bourgeoisie and the reasons behind...
the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
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 ...
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...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
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...
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...
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...
difficult time creating a cohesive worldview. Because of this the aboriginal people often had to struggle with ways in which to un...
was not until 1624 and the publication of Smiths The Generall Historie of Virginia...&c., that Smith told the story that "as man...
parents simply abandoned the children. There are many directions such a story could take. In this case one could claim that the pa...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...
problem is, he and Sonny have never really understood one another; or rather, his brother has never truly understood Sonny. For So...
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
The story's meaning as influenced by the omniscient third-person point of view adopted by Kurt Vonnegut is discussed in 4 pages. ...
similarity to the fascinating stories that are in both N. Scott Momadays House Made of Dawn and Anna Linzers Ghost Dancing as the ...
still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...