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workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...

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

persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

thinking about making a living. But a predominantly capitalist economy meant that all goods and services, including works of art,...

a part of the childhood experience. But then, a girl referred to only as Mangans sister (obviously the sister of one of his frien...

a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

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

is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...

are the American couple and they are simply trying to get in an adventure before Mark dies. They have always wanted to see Ireland...

per billion (ppb) in tap water" (Bullers, 2002). When it comes to bottled water, however, the water does not travel through pipes ...

he recognizes this. They are a challenge and women have always been drawn to him. But, with this one woman he begins to become far...

(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...

which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

a chicken farm. Of his life there and the annoying chickens he writes:" It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny...

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...

as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

Like White Elephants" we have a man and a woman, although the characters are an American Man and a Girl, wherein the man is seemi...

applied to literature in terms of presenting visual imagery in words that does not need to make sense and involves the subconsciou...

In five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...

In five pages the short stories featured in Cisneros' volume and the continuity that exists between them are analyzed. There are ...

This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...

In 6 pages this paper discusses how Marquez employed magical realism in his famous short story. There are 7 sources cited in the ...