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sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...

of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...

no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...

or not he should warn the de Spains illustrate the strength of family loyalty or as Faulkner calls it "the old fierce pull of bloo...

to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...

A 6 page overview of the life of this famous writer. Kerouac's early life experiences were a tremendous impact on his later writi...

In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

also clear that he has suffered at the hands of the townspeople. Mostly, Hightower wants to be left alone and suffer in his emotio...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...

entitled to "stay single, marry or cohabit...with same-sex, opposite-sex or varying partners" while setting their career sights on...

whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...

and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

resentment aside and applied myself to my studies, and came in first in my class. Furthermore, as I maintained excellent grades th...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...

the black man as one who thinks deeply, spiritually, and intelligently. In a time when the narrator is oppressed and ridiculed ...

In twelve pages this essay discusses Kafka's 'The Judgment,' 'Metamorphosis,' and 'The Hunger Artist' in terms of how the author's...

written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...

(Salleh 7). While this request is generally written or spoken, it suggests how a great deal of hidden meaning is intertwined in M...