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Mary Shelley: “Transformation”

opens the story by saying that he has heard that when people go through some sort of strange or supernatural experience, they usua...

Insanity: A Rose for Emily

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

Theme of Death in William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

The Shawl: Nature and Nurture

major role in shaping our behavior, temperament, and intelligence" (PBS). While nature plays important roles in ones life, the env...

Women’s Rights and Hills Like White Elephants

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

Endo: “A Fifty-Year Old Man”

This 3 page paper discusses the short story “A Fifty-Year Old Man” by Shusaku Endo and answers questions about it. Bibliography li...

Tessie Hutchinson/The Lottery/Shirley Jackson

understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...

Main Character Changes in 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'A and P' by John Updike

In five pages this report examines how the primary characters in each of these short stories undergoes different changes. Five so...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and a Reaction to Its Good vs. Evil Theme

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

'Prue' by Alice Munro

Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...

'A White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...

Ice Metaphor in 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

The Extremes of Love and Hate as an 'All or Nothing' Proposition

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

A Film Adaptation/Soldier's Home

adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...

Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing

words ONLY is a little over 9 pgs!!! 11 14 3037 (5-10-10) 3150 12 15 3375 13 16 3600 14 18 15 19 16 20 4500...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

On Going Home

Joan Didions short story "On Going Home" is a story that describes Didions childhood home and the influences that she...

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

Chestnutt: A Close Reading of The Web of Circumstance

glimpse of life in the South 15 years after the end of the Civil War. This paper is a close reading and interpretation of the end ...

The Necklace/Guy de Maupassant

Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...

Willa Cather and Amy Tan and Point of View

view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...

Nawabdin Electrician

whom he ultimately has no sympathy for, indicating very strongly that the character of Nawab knows that people make their own choi...

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

Examining Scenes from Sonny’s Blues

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

Theme of Death in Poe's Work

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

Prejudice against the Disabled

hallmark of cinematic portrayals of blindness in the 1960s and 70s, dramatized the fears of the able-bodied concerning disability,...

An Honest Exit

reader/writer felt to be intriguing and important. The student requesting this essay may feel differently but the story of his fat...

Jackson’s Literary Devices

at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...

Rampo's fiction and Ero-Guro-Nansensu

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...