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Rampo's fiction and Ero-Guro-Nansensu

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

Theme of Death in Poe's Work

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

The Story of an Hour

outside of this reality. Prior to focusing on these elements within the story it is imperative that a person understand the Vict...

Chestnutt: A Close Reading of The Web of Circumstance

glimpse of life in the South 15 years after the end of the Civil War. This paper is a close reading and interpretation of the end ...

The Necklace/Guy de Maupassant

Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

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...

Prejudice against the Disabled

hallmark of cinematic portrayals of blindness in the 1960s and 70s, dramatized the fears of the able-bodied concerning disability,...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing

words ONLY is a little over 9 pgs!!! 11 14 3037 (5-10-10) 3150 12 15 3375 13 16 3600 14 18 15 19 16 20 4500...

A Film Adaptation/Soldier's Home

adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

CSI, the Detective Genre, and "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

On Going Home

Joan Didions short story "On Going Home" is a story that describes Didions childhood home and the influences that she...

My Teaching Job in Burma

was I really going to be able to make it here for six months? I felt bad thinking this way - this was my parents home once, after ...

"Dr. Glass-Case" by De Cervantes

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

Two Ghost Stories, Dickens and Bronte

attitudes that he has embraced have robbed his life of meaning and value. The ghosts remind him of his past and the choices that h...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Paragraph Analysis to 'Provoke Study'

life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...

Loneliness and Hemingway

three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...

Edgar Allan Poe, Suicidal Tendencies, and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

Georg Simmel, Saul Bellow and “Looking for Mr. Green”

postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...

How Ralph Ellison’s Life Affected His Writing

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

Nietzsche and O’Connor

bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...

Updike’s A&P

day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...

John Updike/Sammy quitting in "A & P"

"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...

Argument: Children Without Siblings Should Serve in Combat

end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...

Characters in Hemingway's "Indian Camp"

who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...

Writers and Their Times: John Steinbeck and Susan Glaspell

Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...

Response on a Commentary of The Shawl

camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...