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Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

A Ficticious Literary Panel Discussion

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

Lesson Plans Kindergarten-First Grade

There are two complete lesson plans presented in this essay. The focus is early language and literacy development. One of the less...

Analysis of Dubliners by James Joyce

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and the Narrator

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

Literature and Free Will

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

An Analysis of Campbell's Envy

This story is discussed in depth and the protagonist is examined. This story contemplates Bebe, the character who threatens her te...

An Analysis of The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

This 3 page paper analyzes Toni Cade Bambara's short story The Lesson, which deals with a group of young children learning first h...

Prejudice in Education Confronted by Langston Hughes and Toni Cade Bambara

In five pages education and its prejudices are captured in the poem 'Theme for English B.' and the short story 'The Lesson.' Ther...

'Araby' by James Joyce and Growing Up

a part of the childhood experience. But then, a girl referred to only as Mangans sister (obviously the sister of one of his frien...

What it Takes to Change

5 pages and 2 sources. This paper provides an overview of what it might take to change the future and improve a life. Though man...

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time'

offered by A Wrinkle in Time is that the power of love can overcome just about any of lifes obstacles. When one confronts the dar...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

Phonics Instruction - First Grade

Some card will have words that fit the pattern and other cards will have words that do not fit the pattern. Whiteboard with marker...

Barack Obama and the Rhetorical Skeleton

to be reducing altitude; since they were on combat patrol they assumed it was an attack (Schank 305). He finished by saying he tho...

Poe's Cask of Amontillado

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

Primary Language Arts Lesson Plan

These words will be presented to the children before the story is read. Kindergarten children will learn how to pronounce these wo...

An Analysis of a Third Grade Lesson Plan

This paper analyzes a third grade lesson plan for what is known as an Inclusion Class, for students with learning or mental disord...

Grotesque in the Works of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner

In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...

'Emilie Plead Choose One Egg' by Paule Barton

In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...

Bessie Head and Mahasweta Devi's Patriarchy Perspectives

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

Italo Calvino/"The Adventure of a Reader"

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

A Short Story

may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...

'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...

Chitra Divakaruni's 'Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter'

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...