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Zhang, Lahiri/Memoir and Short Story

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

Poe's Cask of Amontillado

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

A Short Story

may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...

Italo Calvino/"The Adventure of a Reader"

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...

Chitra Divakaruni's 'Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter'

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...

'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

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 ...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

Grotesque in the Works of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner

In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...

'Emilie Plead Choose One Egg' by Paule Barton

In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...

Raymond Carver and Relationships

that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...

Elements of Short Stories

Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...

'Loverboys' by Ana Castillo

our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...

Bessie Head and Mahasweta Devi's Patriarchy Perspectives

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 "...

Two Views of Murder

because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...

The New South and the Black American Communities

groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...

Slavery Ideology and Practice in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

An Analysis of A Rose for Emily

common to the Old South. And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly ...

Althol Fugard/Valley Song

choir. However, she ahs peered through neighbors windows and caught glimpses of singers on television, realizing that her talent c...

News Broadcast Versus Newspaper: Analysis

that could otherwise not be expressed merely by literary methods; rather, photography helps the world understand more about itself...

Hispanic Cultures in the United States

Mexican Americans living in various states, such as California and Texas, that have likely been living in that state since it beca...

CSI, the Detective Genre, and "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...

Fashion and Status in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

'The Crowd' by Ray Bradbury

works of Ray Bradbury, the face of the crowd is death, the death of a more spacious, easier-paced world that has been sacrificed t...

'Araby' by James Joyce, 'A and P' by John Updike, and Maturation

In 5 pages the theme of maturation as it is featured in these two short stories is compared. There are no other sources listed....

American Society and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

which seemed only willing to accept White Anglo-Saxon Protestants into its exclusive membership. The narrator of "Sonnys Blues" r...

Theme of Death and Life Experiences in 'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allan Poe

structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...