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Analyzing Three Tales by William Faulkner

In eight pages characters from 'Barn Burning,' 'A Rose for Emily,' and 'Percy Grimm' are contrasted and compared and a discussion ...

Kate Chopin's Life and Writings

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

Tutorial on Perceval and The Holy Grail

In six pages this paper examines Perceval and the Holy Grail in a tutorial that considers how to construct the story's ending. Fo...

Grotesque in the Works of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner

In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

An Analysis of James Alan McPherson's The Story of a Scar

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' by Ernest Hemingway

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous Conditions'

In a paper that is consists of 5 pages the African American woman Timbu is chronicled through parallels, symbolism, themes, and st...

Short Stories 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...

2 Short Stories on Clashing Religious and Social Values

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

Plotting and Suspense in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

A Review of Great Falls

A 5 page review of the story by Richard Ford. Narrator involvement is the sad story is the focus of this review . 1 source....

Mambo Kings by Oscar Hijuelos and Brothers Cesar and Nestor Castillo

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts the brothers that appear in this book and how they cement the story's strong found...

Pinckney Benedict's Town Smokes and Symbolism

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Relationships of Gender, Race and Class as Represented in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In five pages the paper argues that the place and time of the story factor heavily in the determination of the gender, race, and c...

Metaphors and Symbolism in Children's Stories

help, grownups refuse to give it what it needs, and offer it instead what it detests. As a substitute for stories that bring suns...

Literature and Free Will

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

Women in The Sound and the Fury Faulkner's Femme Fatale Caddy Compson

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the basic characteristics and central themes related to the charact...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

The Novel and 1999 Film Anna And The King

about the others culture and when each is willing to make compromises for the sake of developing cooperative relationships. The on...

'The Iliad' by Homer and Peace

In 7 pages this paper considers the peace messages contained within this war stories' collection known as 'The Iliad.' There are ...

Human Nature and the Writings of Lee K. Abbott

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

Techniques of Storytelling in 'Was It Heaven? Or Hell' by Mark Twain

In 4 pages the way in which Mark Twain constructed this story's melodrama is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

Bless Me, Ultima & The Odyssey

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

Oates/How I Contemplated the World... & Postmodernism

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

Setting in Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

Death in Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...