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In eight pages this paper analyzes Tolstoy's protagonist and considers how this short story explores the value and meaning of life...

prisoners and the captors into villains and victims. He views the entire situation as evil, not evil perpetrated upon the innocent...

In nine pages this paper discusses Yiddish American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer's life and writings including 'The Lecture' and '...

In five pages this research paper focuses upon the author's use of setting in this short story and how it mirrors the progressive ...

In five pages Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...

In five pages this paper examines life and humanity in a comparison of the short stories Paul Fussell's 'Thank God for the Atom Bo...

In five pages this paper discusses Shirley Jackson's life, writings, evil as a popular theme, and her most famous short story 'The...

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

path reaches a dead end a new one begins. By choosing a poor elderly African-American woman as her tales protagonist, Welty is ab...

until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

In one such commentary, "Managing political dissent," she offers up a look at Singapore from many perspectives. In this essay one ...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

Princess. Brenda is both wealthy and domineering. Certainly one sees the two as inextricable. However, if Brenda were a poor Jew, ...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

out and the family, along with their dog Alligator, kill it. The drovers wife shows great strength of character here; she not only...

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the short story called The Country Husband. This paper includes issues of trying to escape ...

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Dry September." The writer offers analysis of the plot and argues that Faulkner use...