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Children's Literature: Borders between Worlds

when one of the friends drops in on another unexpectedly, he is always made welcome and given a meal. The animals are always upset...

Desai and Achebe A Comparison of Clear Light of Day and Things Fall Apart

5 pages 0 outside sources. This paper relates the major themes in Desai's Clear Light of Day and Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Thi...

Inner City Life in Cinema

The ways in which life in the inner cities are portrayed are contrasted and compared in an examination of the films La Haine by Ka...

Gothic Hero Edgar Allan Poe in 'Ligeia' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'

won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...

Sitt Marie Rose by Edel Adnan

further mystified. She states, "The four young men seated in this classroom are not merely judges. They are the victims of a very ...

Dream vs. Reality in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this essay considers whether the events that transpired in this short story were real or were in fact a dream. Ther...

Followup Ending to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

could have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate(Achebe 143). In fact, the barbaric way in which the women are bea...

Themes of Hemingway's Short Story Collection In Our Time

End of Something," "Cat in the Rain," and "The Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II)." First well describe the stories, than anal...

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

This 5 page paper argues that Phoenix Jackson, the protagonist of Eudora Welty's story A Worn Path, is mentally ill. The writer al...

'The Cask of Amontillado' Fiction and the Real Life of Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this paper discusses how Poe's real life experiences can be connected to the short story 'The Cask of Amontillado.'...

Two Short Stories on the Family

Raymond Carver's A Small Good Thing and John Updike's Separating both deal with the family. This paper examines the two short stor...

Realism and Romanticism in Literary Works

a man they dislike, saw it and pulled it so that they would not be exposed with the rest (Twain, 2006). The entire town is convuls...

1991 Film The Doctor

This reaction paper consists of 6 pages and examines the film based upon surgeon Dr. Edward Rosenbaum's real life story of how his...

'A Small Good Thing' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report examines how existential reality and daily life's transitory nature are depicted in the 1983 short story...

The Reality of Ligeia

gorgeous to him, and in particular he adores her huge black eyes (Poe). For her part, when shes dying she clings to his hand and p...

What We Talk about When We Talk about Love (Reaction)

to me were just beginners at love" (Carver qtd. in Downes 49). It does beg a question about love. What is love? Is true love real?...

Telling Stories about Vietnam

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

Reading as a Form of Resistance

imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...

'The Dead' and Dubliners by James Joyce

or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...

Successful Short Story Characteristics

not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...

Good and Evil in 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

Examining Scenes from Sonny’s Blues

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

The Workers Movement and the Haymarket Bombing

The American Labor Movement has a long and turbulent history, a history that is partially detailed by author...

Joyce and Hughes/Loss in 2 Short Stories

OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...

Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

is addicted, pointing out that it was simply part of his wild nature, thus letting the reader see how the brother is being affecte...

Ice Metaphor in 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

Themes of Darkness and Light in Sonny Blues

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

'The Dead' and James Joyce's Attack on Ireland

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

Point of View in 'Araby' by James Joyce

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

Literature and Love

In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...