YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Review of African Short Stories
Essays 121 - 150
She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...
In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...
In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...
with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...
In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...
This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...
In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...