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the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...

out and the family, along with their dog Alligator, kill it. The drovers wife shows great strength of character here; she not only...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

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

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

In three pages this paper discusses the wide ranging symbolism associated with 'The Birthmark' in the short story by Nathaniel Haw...