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that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadv...

main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...

these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

daddy longlegs in the evening hours is a good omen, a portent of good luck" (Ross). In another painting a critic for...

that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...

have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...

idea of Equilibrium and warned not to do anything until he knows what the effect of his action will be: "... you must not change ...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

behavior. The influence of such forces can seem so over-powering that the parent eventually stops trying, emotionally abandoning c...

As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...

intelligent. She is made to remain aloof from all people in this relationship. The buzzards at this point could well be related to...

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...

of passion in their lives, this somber existence. The mood is also set by the tone as it develops along with the plot. In Lawrence...

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts--sometime...

natural fears and perplexities and institutionalize social views (Malinowski 11). These stories and the use of language, then, de...

Color One author suggests that "It was to be expected that as primitive man developed the weaving art, the introduction of ...

usually considered a teacher, or guide. The point is that the stories in this book use a great deal of symbolism, perhaps because...

in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

this man, had sufficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then, like a great bird with ro...

function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...

life, becoming bitter and angry. In essence they could well become poisonous to themselves and others around them because they hav...

and possibly guilty over Luxs reaction to her initiation to sex. Lux is extremely young and a strictly raised and sheltered Cathol...