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We are expanding it (51:47)," is often contended by many scholars in light of the fact that it was not until fairly recently that ...

youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...

by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...

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...

sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...

not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...

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 ...

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

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

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

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

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

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

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...

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

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

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

Medieval sculpture is of special interest in regard to the varying influence of the Christian faith on the sculpture that was prod...

farmer with his cow passing a roadside shrine on the way to market. 1st c. B.C. (Munich: Staatl. Antikensammlung)" (Early Roman Em...

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

most powerful elements of the style of the gothic cathedrals, as seen in the Arts and Crafts movement, is that which relates to st...

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...