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Salvation and Violence in Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories

and the girls eyes [stop] rolling. At this point Mrs. Turpin asks her, What have you got to say to me?" (Bernardo [3]). This of...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories and the Theme of Perfection

the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...

Two Short Stories by Jin and Chopin

comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...

Loneliness in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...

Short Stories and Cultural Attitudes

In five pages the cultural attitudes reflected in John McMurtry's 'Kill'em, Crush ‘em, Eat ‘em Raw' and Roland Barthes...

3 Short Stories and the Conflict Between Parents and Children

In seven pages this paper discusses parent and child conflicts and how they are portrayed in 'The Sky is Gray' by Ernest Gaines, '...

Feminist Interpretations of Two Short Stories

It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...

Toni Cade Bambara's Community of African American Women’s Identity in ’s Gorilla, My Love Short Stories

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

This 4 page paper discusses four of E.A. Poe's short stories, and critical reaction to his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources....

A Review of African Short Stories

A review of short stories which originated in various regions of Africa. This paper has five pages and one source in the bibliog...

Daru's Dilemma 1 in Albert Camus's Short Story, 'The Guest'

In three pages Daru's dilemma and choice to allow the Arab prisoner to select his own destiny are questioned. There are no other ...

'Sonny's Blues' A Short Story by James Baldwin

why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...

Response to Outside Influence in Two Short Stories

of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...

Chinua Achebe/Dead Men's Path

"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...

Three Short Stories and the Nature of Love

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

A Short Story 'Alligators 1, Navy 0'

still places on the planet where nature is more important than man and his machines, and where nature actually "knows best" and sh...

Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...

Symbolism and Theme in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor

In five pages a contrast and comparison of O'Connor's short stories 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' and 'Good Country People...

Appearance versus Reality in the Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how the conflict between appearances and reality is depicted in the short stories 'The Minister'...

Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway as Reflections of the Author's Life

quotes Gertrude Stein as calling Hemingways set "the lost generation" (Roth, 450). Although only a few of his stories and novels a...

Short Stories as They Reflect the Life of Ernest Hemingway II

In nine pages this paper examines how the life of Ernest Hemingway particularly his wartime experiences are reflected in his short...

Gender Relationships in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

even Hemingway himself consciously does not, that "blowing things heads off" is not the way to prove a mans masculinity. "What imp...

Short Stories of William Faulkner and Southern Life

In eight pages this paper discusses how Southern life, history and geography are depicted in the short stories 'A Rose for Emily,'...

Short Stories by William Faulkner Compared

of her life. One of the children asks her whats wrong: " I aint nothing but a nigger, Nancy said. It aint none of my fault " ("Tha...

Themes of Hemingway's Short Story Collection In Our Time

End of Something," "Cat in the Rain," and "The Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II)." First well describe the stories, than anal...

Short Stories by Shirley Jackson 'After You, My Dear Alphonse' and 'The Lottery'

domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are ...

Title Significance in Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor

The grandmother thinks she has the answers and is saved, religiously or otherwise, but yet she perhaps seems to realize that this ...

Short Story Comparisons of 'Tickets, Please' by D.H. Lawrence and 'Regret' by Kate Chopin

of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...

Edgar Allan Poe's Short Story Themes

In seven pages this paper examines knowledge, time, and truth in this thematic analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's stories 'The Balloon ...

The Short Story 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...