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know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...

of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...

an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...

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

isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...

we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...

this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...

his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...

In the OConnor story, a family comprised of a husband and wife, their two children and the husbands mother take a road trip. Altho...

ways that any change would be impossible for her. But when Mary Grace whispers her venomous insult, the message strikes home and R...

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

and the girls eyes [stop] rolling. At this point Mrs. Turpin asks her, What have you got to say to me?" (Bernardo [3]). This of...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

of judgments find themselves in usually violent altercations that force judgment to be passed on them. She admitted, "In my own s...

bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...

is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...

this only comes in the form of regret at the end. In fact, if anyone were to be bitter about things, it would have to be the gra...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

the thesis. OConnor, Flannery. "Greenleaf" in Everything that Rises Must Converge. HarperCollins Canada, 1956, p. 24-53. As a ...

cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...