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a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...
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...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...
his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...
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...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
reveal the ages old cobblestones beneath. I am always amazed that the cobblestones, which are obviously older than the concrete ne...
actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...
story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
does not temper "love with wrath" (Stumb, 19999). Julian is quoted as having said, that she could see "no sort of anger in God, ho...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
In five pages this essay considers the narrative action and the main theme's implications within the context of the short story. ...
in the story where a judgment is made concerning the validity of revenge. The argument is made that a killing will not restore ...