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a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

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

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...

formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...

close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...

The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...

In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...

extensively from both the perspective of the unsighted as one who fails to see the beauty of the world around him to the sightless...

In six pages these two short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of girls' roles in each tale. There are no other sources...

In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...

In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...

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

terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...

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 ...

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

makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...

in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...

be funny, but it winds up just being painful, sad, and unpleasant to watch. Since Andies goal is to drive Ben away, she delibera...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...