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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....

is forced to live in darkness. The child, the reader is told, is about nine or ten years old, lives on a half bowl of cornmeal a...

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

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

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

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...

that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...

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

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

It is clear in this story that the greed of the Washingtons is out-of-control. Mr. Washington doesnt want anyone to find out abou...

the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...

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

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

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

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

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

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

books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

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

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

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

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