YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Short Story by Ford
Essays 1621 - 1650
may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...
an intriguing plot concerning a ministers request to never remove the curious black veil he wears. When he dies, should the congre...
be there. They, as individuals, come second when they have a husband and a family. Even in todays society where a woman can be suc...
years, the debate has been waged about the efficacy of bilingual education, bilingual enrichment, immersion programs, ESL (English...
have been amazing stories of survival by people caught unaware. But there have also been horrible stories of people swept up by th...
world that she is a success. This character then stands as a powerful example of women from that era who were given few choices b...
were twittering in the eaves"(Chopin). The other indication that she will be experiencing an ambivalence toward his death is...
end, giving us a young woman who was never able to come to terms with her race, her sexuality, or her gender. She is the character...
man who goes to England on holiday, rather than accompany his family on a trip to the beach. While in Europe, the man is struck by...
particular motif is also seen in biblical passages that indicate Yahwehs strength: "Was it not you who split Rahab in half, who pi...
why things are so arranged, that women should seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot" (How the Two Ivans...
States cheered on the Japanese, whom they regarded in a measure as their prot?g?s. But in time it became apparent that the plucky...
He is a thoroughly unpleasant character. Despite this, he is amusing (in a sick way) because he always convinces himself that wha...
to exhume personal details of the episode that bear no benefit to the reading audience other than to give them an inside glance to...
defined point of view, which is often that of the author. By giving "specific and sensory details," the author gets the reader inv...
As the race of the infant becomes more obvious, its race being obviously partially African, she becomes confused. Her husband bera...
In many ways, as the story progresses, the reader essentially forgets her heart condition. But, if one keeps this in mind one can ...
the pressure and approved wage hikes, however, they quickly evaporated as inflation crept into the warring city. Gordei and his c...
both works. The fact that Joseph rejects the advances of his bosss wife does not mean he is not interested in her. While she was p...
coming home from the city, he is ill and he knows why but when he is admitted to the hospital no one has any idea what his trouble...
film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...
utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...
Whitelaw from their hometown, and the narrator imbues this physical artifact with a great deal of emotional significance. In parti...
her and is keeping her emotions and thoughts to herself, never letting them in. In fact the only one who is allowed in is the read...
another job. There are those who are out of work, who have given up looking for a job. There are those who are out of work, who ha...
set their sights high, despite being rejected early on by some potential business partners and investors, and their enthusiasm con...
Holland was a shell of a soldier, sitting on a bench at the beach in San Francisco when Pearlie saw him and recognized him instant...
the background of my mind because I do not want to deal with it and my ego tells me it is not going to make life easier. But, my e...
as an "honest man" who kept a "little hut for the entertainment of travelers, serving them with meat and drink" but seldom offerin...
World Trade Center, damage the Pentagon, bring down three planes and kill thousands of people; they also confused Americans as to ...