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testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

country seems to be in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors, and on the fact that this eternal war has become the norm. Th...

trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...

takes on the persona of Samantha, and Samantha eagerly takes on the persona of Amanda because they seem to be the same. There ar...

has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

is actually an "angel of light," as he serves as the "unwilling instrument of grace," by stealing Joy/Hulgas leg and leaving her s...

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...

have suddenly grown weak" which symbolizes also the weakness in the man as well through the death of his wife and the memory of hi...

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...

whom he ultimately has no sympathy for, indicating very strongly that the character of Nawab knows that people make their own choi...

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

glimpse of life in the South 15 years after the end of the Civil War. This paper is a close reading and interpretation of the end ...

Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...