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of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

short story A Good Man is Hard to Find is a horrific narrative of delusion, lies and mass murder. It is also anthologized constant...

story that provide real insight into human motivation in the space of a very few words. This paper analyses the story. Discussion ...

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

ways that any change would be impossible for her. But when Mary Grace whispers her venomous insult, the message strikes home and R...

Macomber." Review of the Binaries Argument One way that Hemmingway explored the question...

out of the ordinary that they are shocking (Updike). (And yes, there really is an A&P-the abbreviation is short for the Great Atla...

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...

In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...

tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...