YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Review of African Short Stories
Essays 31 - 60
an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...
isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...
we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....
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 ...
In three pages this essay discusses this short story by Tennessee Williams in an analysis of techniques....
In six pages the deceptiveness of appearances is examined in a consideration of the journeys each of these short story protagonist...
In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...
This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
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...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...
This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...
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...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
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...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...
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 "...
our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...
In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...
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 ...