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North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An...

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...

story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...

powerful persuasiveness to lead man astray, the consequences of disobeying God and the subsequent struggle of all humanity. It is ...

Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...

can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...

a sense of apprehension. As he looks back to see her watching him as he rounds the corner by the meeting house he vows that thing...

an article entitled "Every Womans Dream," which appeared in April 7 edition of The Weekly (1954, p. 59). The student researching t...

sun-drenched countryside. The glare from the sky was unbearable" (Camus). In this first chapter the power and glare of the sun ...

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

indicative of what the new emerging countries might become. Julio Cortazar does...

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

the traditional interpretation of Eve as the originator of all sin and death for the human race. However, the student may wish to ...

as life slips away alongside the wonderment borne of childhood is, perhaps, some of the most intense and illustrative of all Hales...

was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...

Companion of the British Empire and was awarded doctorates from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford. In 1999, on the 100th annivers...

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...