YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Review of African Short Stories
Essays 121 - 150
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
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...
did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...
still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...
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...
"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...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
This 6 page paper is an analysis of the short story by Camus called The Guest. This paper gives a summary of the story as well as ...
This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...
This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...
The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...
This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...
This essay pertains to "My Kid's Dog," a short story by Ron Hansen. The writer discusses how the story reflects the therapeutic ap...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
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 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...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
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...