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In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...

of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...

an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...

isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...

we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....

concerned that he cant get up and go to work to support his family. Even from the start, he does not want to be a burden on his fa...

On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...

studying the nature outside the window, and begins to allow us to see that she is experiencing something far more profound and far...

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

Education as it is thematically depicted in these Jamaica Kincaid stories is the focus of this comparative analysis consisting of ...

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...

by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...

sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...

not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...

a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...

youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...