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Synopsis of 'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

First Person Narrative Approaches in Works by Toni Cade Bambara and John Updike

argue he is standing up to injustice in the world as it involves the young girls. As one author states, "At first glance, Sammy, t...

Civil Rights Movement and Exodus Theme

the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...

'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor Compared

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

Resumo de Ana by Modesto Carone

In five pages tis paper evaluates the author's presentation of his uncle and grandmother's stories in the 1999 novel Resumo de Ana...

Success of Rexall Sundown

In sixteen pages this paper examines the financial reasons behind Rexall Sundown's business success story. Twenty two sources are...

Donald Barthelme's 'The Balloon' and Irony

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

Short Stories by Shirley Jackson 'After You, My Dear Alphonse' and 'The Lottery'

domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are ...

Gender and Narratives: Rowlandson and Jacobs

two they took and carried away alive" (Rowlandson). In this she is clearly just presenting the facts, as anyone would do, be they ...

Islam vs. Christianity, a Comparison

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe, 'Shooting the Elephant' by George Orwell and the Human Heart

to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...

A Feminist Interpretation of, The Yellow Wallpaper

to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!" (Gilman). Because her...

The Prodigal Son in Augustine's Confessions

tale was reduced to feeding pigs in order to survive. Augustine writes, "Where then, wast thou and how far from me? Far, indeed, w...

'The Bridegroom' by Ha Jin

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

Themes of Nature and Death in Simone Schwarz Bart's The Bridge of Beyond and Gabrielle Roy's The Road Past Altamont

environment, which is rare anymore, is often a very dangerous environment that can threaten ones life. This makes the reader under...

The Text and Film Versions of 'A Rose for Emily'

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

SARS Epidemic, Iraq War, and Lessons in Media Management

meaning information positive to the organisations goals. However, for governments, especially in countries where there is freedom ...

'You Touched Me' and 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

Aging in 'Minuet' by Guy de Maupassant

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

Natural Selection and Stories by Bellow and Gold

improved in a corresponding degree with its competitors, it will soon be exterminated" (Darwin). This then is the basic of Darwins...

Conflict in Willa Cather’s Short Story ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and Its Literary Deconstruction

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

Narrator's Voice in 'In Broad Daylight' by Ha Jin and 'Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants' by Nadine Gordimer

readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...

Jing-Mei Woo’s Personality Traits in Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”

When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...

Alifa Rifaat's "Another Evening At The Club"

long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...

Two by Poe: “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

Three Versions of “Madame Bovary”

of her character. Just after she marries Charles, Flaubert tells us that before they had married she thought she was in love, but ...

"The Last Emperor" - Psychological Elements

"develop a healthy sense of omnipotence which will naturally be frustrated as the child matures" (D. W. Winnicott). Because Pu Yi...

Walt Whitman vs. Emily Dickinson

each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...