YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Review of African Short Stories
Essays 571 - 600
she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...
I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...
However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...
ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...
symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...
memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...
to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...
everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...
Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...
from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...
prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...
the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...
to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...
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...
took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...
that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...
hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...
to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...
her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...
the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...
Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...
In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...