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'The Tell Tale Heart ' by Edgar Allan Poe

very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...

Narrator's Voice in 'In Broad Daylight' by Ha Jin and 'Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants' by Nadine Gordimer

readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...

'I Stand Here Ironing' Short Story by Tillie Olsen

BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...

'Do You Like It Here?' by John O'Hara

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...

Houston Promotion and the Value of Drama and Literature

In five pages this paper examines how Houston promotes drama and literature through theater and writers groups and considers their...

Generation Representation in Amy Tan's Short Story 'Two Kinds'

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

Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...

Thematic Comparison of Short Stories ‘Newton’s Gift’ by Paul J. Nahin, ‘Absolutely Inflexible’ by Robert Silverberg, and ‘Meddler’ by Philip K. Dick

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

Realism and Romanticism in Literary Works

a man they dislike, saw it and pulled it so that they would not be exposed with the rest (Twain, 2006). The entire town is convuls...

Aimee Bender's 'The Rememberer' and Surrealism

applied to literature in terms of presenting visual imagery in words that does not need to make sense and involves the subconsciou...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

Themes of Darkness and Light in Sonny Blues

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

Telling Stories about Vietnam

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

Prejudice in Education Confronted by Langston Hughes and Toni Cade Bambara

In five pages education and its prejudices are captured in the poem 'Theme for English B.' and the short story 'The Lesson.' Ther...

Gothic Romance Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...

Setting in 'Araby' by James Joyce

In five pages this paper examines how the author effectively utilizes setting in this moving short story. Four sources are cited ...

A Review of African Short Stories

A review of short stories which originated in various regions of Africa. This paper has five pages and one source in the bibliog...

Parents in the Fiction of Guy de Maupassant

In five pages this paper examines the French author's short stories 'Mademoiselle Fifi' and 'Boule de Suif' in terms of how they r...

Definitive Myth of 'A Country Doctor' by Franz Kafka

In five pages Kafka's nightmarish short story is examined in terms of its contemporary myth functionality. There are 7 sources ci...

Marxist Rhetoric in 'The Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka

predictable of a portrayal for a writer as talented as Kafka. It has almost become cliche for writers to appear as either the poo...

Freedom and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

In five page this paper examines the many types of freedoms the author considers within the context of this short story. There ar...

'The Storm' by Kate Chopin and Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses how Kate Chopin portrayed female sexuality in her short story 'The Storm.' There are no other ...

Chekhov, Ibsen, and Realism

In five pages this paper discusses how realism is portrayed in 'The Lottery Ticket' short story by Chekhov and in the play An Enem...

Poetry, Recreation, Cinema, and Ethnicity

In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...

Religious Images in 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how an individual's social conflict is demonstrated through the use of religious imagery in this...

Spirituality in 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages the spiritual laboratory assistant Animadab is compared with the nonspiritual Aylmer as depicted in this short story...

Symbolism in 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines the significance of symbolism in this famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are no o...

Symbolism in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines the importance of symbols to the telling of the short story 'Young Goodman Brown.' There are 7 ...

Puritanism, Witchcraft, and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this essay examines how Puritanism and witchcraft contribute to the setting of this short story by Nathaniel Hawthor...

Dream vs. Reality in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this essay considers whether the events that transpired in this short story were real or were in fact a dream. Ther...