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"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...

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...

Fictitious Story on Viking Erik Olafson

In seven pages a young boy's journey that chronicles the everyday life of a Viking family is featured in this fictitious story. F...

"I Stand Here Ironing" And "Fever Flower" Mother Daughter Relationships

entire identity. Similarly, Olsen sheds light upon the way intent and effort do not always produce the desired outcome, which is ...

'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway and the Theme of Dysfunction

In five pages Hemingway's short story is discussed in terms of how it reflects dysfunction of family relationships. Seven sources...

Two Tolstoy Works Compared

Jealousy and marriage and how they drive the plot line and story in this paper, which compares Leo Tolstoys' Family Happiness and ...

'Eveline' by James Joyce

In four pages this paper discusses the story in a letter Eveline pens to her father in which she expresses her desire to leave her...

Latino Family Images in Iguana Dreams

In seven pages this short story collection is examined in terms of how Latino families are represented within. There are no other...

2 Articles on the Effects of Family Function Upon Adolescence

In five pages 'The Relation of Family Functioning to Adolescent Psychological Well Being, School Adjustment, and Problem Behavior'...

'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...

Analysis of 'Why I Live at the P.O.' by Eudora Welty

In five pages this research paper analyzes Welty's popular short story with the emphasis upon family eccentricities and the post m...

'Why I Live at the P.O.' by Eudora Welty

workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...

James Joyce's 'Eveline' and Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour'

A slightly different perspective on family life is offered in Joyces Eveline. Here, the protagonist is not only...

Family Systems Theory

equilibrium" (Christian, 2006). Each of these features lies within their own continuum. For instance, while all families establish...

The Change In Family Structure

applies a qualitative approach in order to reach into the greater human element involved in this particular subject matter. Indee...

Family Health Nursing

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

Researching Family History

a land in which the wealthy were very wealthy, the poor were exceedingly so. Michael seemed to believe he was in training t...

Therapy can save Marriages

Families face a myriad of concerns and issues. Parents may disagree about parenting styles, there may be behavioral or academic pr...

Faulkner's Rose for Emily/Time Imagery

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

Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

"No Easy Answers"

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

John Updike/The Rumor

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

Comparing Chekhov, Nabokov & Viramontes

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

Goethe: “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...

Sinclair Ross/2 Short Stories

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

3 Expert Tales of Death

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

Small Fires: Developed Perceptions with Readings

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and Literary Style

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...