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Sam in Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

'Up the Coulee' by Hamlin Garland

is a story about change - the change in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garl...

Love and Cinderella in Four Fairytale Interpretations

castle where he runs into a surly servant girl: Danielle(who beans him with an apple). Later, when he sees her in some of her si...

Resistance and Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

belly pulsed with fear...and the rat emitted a long thin song of defiance, its black beady eyes glittering" (Wright, 10). ...

'The Three Strangers' by Thomas Hardy

are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...

Comparative Analysis of Ursula K. Le Guin's 'Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' and Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

it that way for ages. Madness is not only contagious; it is bred into the people of the village. The black box, then, represents u...

Themes of Futility and Furstration in the Works of Joyce

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An...

Theme of The Great Grandmother by Nancy Hale

as life slips away alongside the wonderment borne of childhood is, perhaps, some of the most intense and illustrative of all Hales...

An Analysis of Adam and Eve

powerful persuasiveness to lead man astray, the consequences of disobeying God and the subsequent struggle of all humanity. It is ...

Themes of Nature and Death in Simone Schwarz Bart's The Bridge of Beyond and Gabrielle Roy's The Road Past Altamont

environment, which is rare anymore, is often a very dangerous environment that can threaten ones life. This makes the reader under...

Half and Half Writers on Growing Up Biracial Plus Bicultural Edited by Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn

taking from different cultures to provide the most appropriate terms. The way in which OHearn fitted into the society around her...

Sidonie Colette's 'The Hand'

hygiene she also realizes are very large and she is shocked. This is a significant statement by the wife, since up until this time...

Comparing Protagonists in Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour' and Guy de Maupassant's 'The Necklace'

fated to her status in life" (Lombardi). It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the her...

'Fifty Grand,' 'The Natural History of the Dead,' and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

Literary Comarison of John Cheever's Stories 'The Housebreaker of Shady Hill' and 'The Worm in the Apple'

modern-day utopias that seemed to have the best of everything. There were sporting events, community activities, performing arts,...

Commonality of Family Dysfunction in 'Go Tell It On the Mountain' by James Baldwin

In 5 pages the common themes of family dysfunction and religion's 'being saved' are examined within the context of this story by J...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Insanity

In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...

Phyllis Bentley's 'Love and Money' and Virginia Woolf's 'The Legacy' Compared

on what his wife has written reveal details of his opinion regarding her. While granted Gilbert loved his wife, his attitude towar...

The Open Boat vs. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

injured while enjoying an African hunting adventure with his wife, Helen. The primary theme is death, and how man often puts off ...

'Mother Courage and Her Children' by Bertolt Brecht and 'Bread and Wine' by Ignazio Silone

In seven pages these two stories are examined regarding the meaning of each and the themes of Marxism and oppression. There are n...

Themes of Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

In 5 pages this paper examines this early 1920s' novel in terms of its predominant themes....

Analyzing John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Pearl

In five pages these stories are analyzed in terms of their similarities and differences and literary elements such as themes, char...

'The Odyssey' by Homer, the Book of Genesis, Retribution and Faith

In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...

Fitzgerald and Williams in Terms of Style, Theme, and Characterization

In six pages the stories 'Crazy Sunday' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin' by Tenness...

Thematic Analysis of 'The Lamb' by William Blake

In three pages this paper discusses creation's divinity as an important theme of the poem 'The Lamb' by William Blake....

Chamber of Blood Stories by Angela Carter

that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...

Man v. Nature in The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

Evaluation of Sudden Fiction Edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas

he is about to leave home, his oldest daughter asks her mother to do the can-can. His wife kicks up her heels and begins to dance....

Grace Nichol's Collection The Fat Black Woman's Poems

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Mishima's Stories Patriotism and Death in Midsummer

The honour code which decrees that those who bring shame on the community must remove themselves from it was the ethical system wh...