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Essays 661 - 690
tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...
he recognizes this. They are a challenge and women have always been drawn to him. But, with this one woman he begins to become far...
clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...
and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...
we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...
is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...
he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...
But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...
this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...
her training in society was different, for her focus was on religion and the proper way things should be done. While the mother in...
(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...
Like White Elephants" we have a man and a woman, although the characters are an American Man and a Girl, wherein the man is seemi...
her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...
her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...
just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...
which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...
mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...
as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...
are the American couple and they are simply trying to get in an adventure before Mark dies. They have always wanted to see Ireland...
abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...
a chicken farm. Of his life there and the annoying chickens he writes:" It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny...
applied to literature in terms of presenting visual imagery in words that does not need to make sense and involves the subconsciou...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...
persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...