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If Shakespeare Wrote Science Fiction, Ariel Would Use a Transporter

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Mason’s Shiloh

Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...

Father/Son Relationship in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

Granny's Last Days in 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' by Katherine Anne Porter

In 5 pages this paper examines how the protagonist planned to die with dignity in Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 short story. There...

Discussion of Ways of Knowing

This essay pertains to Margaret Edson's play "Wit," and Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use." The writer argues that each of ...

Everyday Use by Alice Walker

This essay presents an analysis of "Everyday Use, " a short story, by Alice Walker. Nine pages in length, seven sources are cited....

Allegory in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

In five pages the ways in which allegory is used by the author in this short story are discussed. Two sources are cited in the bi...

Theme of Death and Life Experiences in 'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allan Poe

structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...

Hawthorne and Poe

This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...

Running in Place by Pamela C. Joern

This essay offers analysis of Pamela C. Joern's short story "Running in Place." The writer focuses on Joern's skill in regards to ...

Mark Twain’s The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

A 4 page aper which discusses Mark Twain’s short story The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Bibliography lists 4 source...

Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

is addicted, pointing out that it was simply part of his wild nature, thus letting the reader see how the brother is being affecte...

Jackson: “The Lottery” - Point of View

it has been going on for so long that nobody remembers why or how it started (Jackson). We also know that this village is not the ...

Religious Symbolism in Hurston’s “Sweat”

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...

Small Fires by Helene Littmann

enough to truly consider them a hero. For example, Miranda is one who is strong and determined. She wants to change the world and ...

Leo Tolstoy’s Alyosha the Pot

is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...

Amy Tan’s Two Kinds: Mothers and Daughters

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

Two Mothers

by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...

Film Adaptation/Shoeless Joe & Field of Dreams

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

Alice Walker/Everyday Use

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

Alice Walker: “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

“Harrison Bergeron”

bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...

Canaries and Snow Country

have suddenly grown weak" which symbolizes also the weakness in the man as well through the death of his wife and the memory of hi...

The Impact of Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...

'The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines the themes that are featured in this short story by Mark Twain. Six sources are cited in the bi...

Carol Henning and John Steinbeck's 'The Chrysanthemums'

In 9 pages this paper analyzes the short story by John Steinbeck in order to determine whether or not his wife Carol Henning was t...

Relationships Among Spouses in 'The Girls in Their Summer Dresses' by Irwin Shaw and 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

In five pages these short stories are analyzed in a contrasting and comparison of spousal relationships. There are no other sourc...

Comparison of A Jury of Her Peers and A Respectable Woman

In five pages these Susan Glaspell and Kate Chopin short stories are contrasted and compared in terms of common threads of social ...

Dualities and Opposites of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

The opposites and dualities that appear in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne are analyzed in 5 pages with Puritan ethics and...

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Horror Genre

In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...