YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Short Story by Ford
Essays 451 - 480
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...
tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...
likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an an...
Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...
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 ...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...
of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...
Many factual elements of Schmids horrendous crimes and his persona impregnate Oates short story. Schmid is described in the "Life...
This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...
the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...
in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...
Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...
The obvious conclusion that many students come to when considering this encounter was that Connie in effect encouraged Arnolds pur...
educated, for most people are in the future, and they just live a life that is filled with criminal activity. It is the norm and t...
his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...
to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...
at the same time he is not successful, such as the relationship with his grandfather and a wife. In terms of three specific events...
himself during this period (Ross, 1999). He began writing soon after his arrival in Canada, and won the "Canadian Fiction Magazin...
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...
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...
and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...