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has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...

hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...

This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

The obvious conclusion that many students come to when considering this encounter was that Connie in effect encouraged Arnolds pur...

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...

at the same time he is not successful, such as the relationship with his grandfather and a wife. In terms of three specific events...

himself during this period (Ross, 1999). He began writing soon after his arrival in Canada, and won the "Canadian Fiction Magazin...

in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...

makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...

inner most desire is that God would "notice and...talk to him also" as he did to men in the Old Testament (55). Bentley comes to s...

such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...

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

as well as the physical need (Hooley et al, 1998). A product is rarely bought for what it is but for the need that it will satisfy...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

stories often reflect the ideals, and the alternative ideals, of this time. While he has written numerous stories this particular ...

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...

"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...

same in all processes; to define the problem, to consider the alternatives, to evaluate the best course of action and to make the ...

day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...

The actual cost of production of the 100th package of Microsoft Word(r) certainly was not the $500 it sold for at retail in the ea...

camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...