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"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

can be explained by the growing acceptance in our culture of anything that is off color, illegal, or even immoral. The type of gl...

in the grass and Antonia begins to ask Jim to tell her the English names of things; she is quick and alert and seems very much a p...

is just surplus" (Ebert) But the "surplus" is everything that a "normal" person experiences. While there is a definite charm to t...

highly dysfunctional family adopted survival behaviors a long time before the play begins. Instead of getting mired in the chaos f...

to society is well known and many see this as admirable. Yet, there are some critics. Not everyone agrees that capitalism is the b...

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...

successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...

a boy. It seems important to understand that children, at the time this story takes place, were treated as adults in many...

of law as it has manifest in the place of which he writes about. There is some action in this work. Yet, what the action is compr...

relates to issues of magic and creation, and the identity of Prospero/Shakespeare. In examining this perspective the opinions and...

to come. It is, as noted, a relatively simple story. But, at the same time, without the deep psychological reading she is...

Walton, who explains the story in letters to his sister; he in turn has heard it from Frankenstein himself. This is a "framing" de...

Therefore, the conclusion is that he is not the devil, but a man who behaves in a manner that we would call devilish or satanic. H...

Tom is convicted for only one reason: hes black. Although hes sentenced to death, the sentence is commuted to life in prison; even...

leave together ("The Shy & the Lonely"). Whether or not she is gay, there are certainly the hints are that Amelia is not womanly ...

and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a bet" (Twain). Smiley was a character who would trick others and come ou...

to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...

of Gods creation of the universe (Chance 67). According to De Temporibus Anni (the translation of Aelfric), the worlds first day ...

famine as being the direct manifestation of her conflict with Oberon) and the madness itself is generated by the very human desire...

expects of herself, involves being the keeper of the history of the family. There is likely many elements within her character tha...

the story the reader discovers that he has branded himself permanently with an "A" to pay for his sins. But, he is not a man who w...

to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...

under his own roof. One of the oldest of all human social laws is that a person cannot harm his guest. Its never been written down...

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

man who could not be respected in some manner. In the case of Franklin one sees him, at a relatively early age, beginning to teach...

The writer argues that this story is character driven, and that this means Delia’s actions would not change much no matter what ti...

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

at that and he turned and ran, only to fall flat on his face. The jolt startled him and woke him up completely. He heaved a sigh ...