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This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...
has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...
he urges Jig to have an abortion. Despite the fact that the man repeatedly says that he does not want Jig to do anything that sh...
in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...
the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...
are learning that every living being sometime, somehow, some way ultimately dies. Fairy tales have long utilized this concept as ...
day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...
makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...
Some of them are not. Frequently, it is the combination of heritage and gender which cause the greatest problems, as Rachel discov...
seem to state that the goal for all initiates is to come to the place where the desires are eliminated, not by ceasing the actions...
it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...
he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...
there is the father, a man who feels a deep connection with the past, and perhaps more importantly, the Mexican Revolution. It is ...
and nothing to do with the prank that Oberon is playing through Puck. They happen to enter into the midst of the chaos however, an...
You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...
grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...
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...
in the natural order, the black man and the animal were indistinguishable. This was the prevailing attitude with which author, hu...
in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...
primarily white, with some red and green piping and a large image of an eagle in the middle. The apron has two large ties that go...
a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...
John Whyclif and John Hus, drew attention to the moral and spiritual failures of the Christian Church (Schildgen 121). While The...
society within they wished they lived. In Bambaras story we have one woman, a black woman, who is trying to educate the inner c...
stories often reflect the ideals, and the alternative ideals, of this time. While he has written numerous stories this particular ...
to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...
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...
undercover form, is as indispensable to you as air and water" (Salih, 1970, p. 60). Salihs (1970) chronicle - which "recounts the...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...