YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Traditional Hawaiian Talk Story
Essays 121 - 150
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...
isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...
Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...
youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...
Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...
makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...
We are expanding it (51:47)," is often contended by many scholars in light of the fact that it was not until fairly recently that ...
not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...
a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...
by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...
his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...
sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...
ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...
one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...
to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...
sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...