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mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

constantly to the topic of the beautiful heifer that Uwe has purchased as a present for his bride. The cow cannot be separated fro...

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

originate in the collective unconscious of the race as a whole, saying that they were "primordial images which have always been th...

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...

to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...

question, one of the jurors came up to her later and told her, "I dont want you to think it was unanimous--it wasnt" (Sereny 360)....

the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...

He replied that he had "rather lost the habit of noting" his feelings and, therefore, "hardly knew what to answer" (Camus 80). He ...

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

he urges Jig to have an abortion. Despite the fact that the man repeatedly says that he does not want Jig to do anything that sh...

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

John Whyclif and John Hus, drew attention to the moral and spiritual failures of the Christian Church (Schildgen 121). While The...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

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...

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...

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...

about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...

Carthage queen, to fall in love with Aeneas. The entire story of Dido and Aeneas brims with fire imagery that demonstrates both Di...

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...

a narrative technique that makes skillful use of breaks in linear chronology. His character development is powerful and compelling...