YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :6 Hummingbird Corporation Stories of William Heyen
Essays 271 - 300
Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...
by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...
his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...
sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...
not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...
a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...
youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...
one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...
it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...
amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...
slips/ Among velleities and carefully caught regrets/ Through attenuated tones of violins/ Mingled with remote cornets/ And begins...
her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...
and was often able to reach accident and crime scenes before the police themselves. By doing so he had managed to capture many of...
and blew pink rubber at me" (Williams, 1991; 45). She found herself incredibly outraged and wishing she could make him see...
works called The Mourning Bride which was created in 1697 contains the following well known line: "Heavn has no Rage, like Love to...
denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...