YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Review of African Short Stories
Essays 811 - 840
In 7 pages this short story is analyzed in terms of its protagonist and whether or not it was modeled after the author who created...
In five pages Hemingway's short story is discussed in terms of how it reflects dysfunction of family relationships. Seven sources...
to her" (2274). Maggie had a disfiguring accident as a child, the result of the familys home burning to the ground. As her mothe...
In five pages this paper examines the social and economic implications of this short story in a character analysis of Bartleby. T...
thematic motif, relating individuals to others, themselves, and, particularly in the African stories, to the land. "The Old Chief...
In a paper consisting of six pages the thematic cycle of beginnings and ends is discussed within the context of this short story. ...
reminiscent of real people experiencing real social pain and suffering, in spite of the fact that Mathilde chose to wallow in what...
The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...
In 3 pages theme, tone, and symbolism are analyzed within the context of Katherine Mansfield's short story 'Miss Brill.' There ar...
In five pages Joyce's short story is examined within the context of these 3 themes with imagination and memories retaining the gre...
In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...
In 5 pages John Updike's short story is examined in an analysis of the protagonist Sammy being caught in the middle of 2 worlds. ...
In 5 pages the 2 couples featured in this short story by Bessie Head are contrasted and compared regarding the marriages of each. ...
to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...
stories often reflect the ideals, and the alternative ideals, of this time. While he has written numerous stories this particular ...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
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...
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...
to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...
in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...
(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...
or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...
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...
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...
a famous singer, a woman who appears also quite lonely and powerful. Her name is Madame Tradutorri and she suffers at the hands of...
they are poor because they have no luck. Paul, being a small child, thinks that luck is a tangible object to be found, obtained or...
My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...
of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...
became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...