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we acquire knowledge not through a straightforward one-way transmission of information, but through a complicated interplay betwee...

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...

Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

When Pelayo discovers an old man sporting wings in a sandy marsh and summons his wife Elisenda to take a look to assure he is not ...

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...

likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an an...

stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...

as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...

there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...