Essays 571 - 600
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
who finds themself trapped with a, almost willingly, woman going insane. Twains "Huckleberry Finn" takes the reader with him along...
The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...
In two pages the author's employment of color and setting in order to emphasize the story's conflicts and represent alienation is ...
young lady? (I nod, encouragingly, I hope.) Well, say the fella had an arm or a leg that was , well, missing. Id slap on a tourniq...
This story is discussed in depth and the protagonist is examined. This story contemplates Bebe, the character who threatens her te...
a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
own. But there is a version of Cinderella that is commonly known. This version, or compilation of versions, contains fundamental e...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
involved. Julians mother takes center stage as a black woman enters the bus wearing the same hat as his mother. While race certain...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
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 ...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
stay in the past, feeling that early France is his destiny. This time travelers name is Andr? Marek. II. Mareks Method of Coping...
- and still is to a great degree - the focal point of cultural existence speaks to the way in which Silko (1989) reveals the strug...
has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
monstrous Green Knight after having already shown that he is unmarred when his own head is cut off (Norton 218). There is a great ...
they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...
this argument we see that the giant is the handicapped child. The entire town is frightened of him because he is a giant. He does ...
One of the foremost scholars on the Southwest, Charles Wilkinson, has written a book entitled, The Crossing of the Meridian. The v...