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real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

He figures thousands on luxury items alone" (Carver NA). From these lines we note that the couple is likely very superficial an...

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...

to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...

Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...

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