YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Review of African Short Stories
Essays 151 - 180
In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...
be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...
his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...
conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...
Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...
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...
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...
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...
In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
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...
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...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
"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...
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...