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Essays 451 - 480
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...
conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...
In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...
our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...
In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....
his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...
Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...
In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...
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...
In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...
In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...
In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...
This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...
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 five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...
In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
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...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
This essay pertains to "My Kid's Dog," a short story by Ron Hansen. The writer discusses how the story reflects the therapeutic ap...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
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...