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Essays 1831 - 1860

Point of View in Amy Tan's 'The Rules of the Game' and in Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

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...

The Importance of Harley in O'Dell's Back Roads

of things then he can feel justified in being angry at his mother for leaving him as the father and provider of the children. Be...

The Devil in the White City by Larson

is something that cannot be ignored. It was after all the Civil War that freed the slaves. Black people, or Negroes as they were r...

Feminism and Ursula K. Le Guin's, Sur

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

The Dreamers by Isak Dinesen and Identity

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

Ignorance and Fear in 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

An Analysis of Doris Lessing's, To Room Nineteen

telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...

Processes of Gay Identity Development

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...

Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

Many factual elements of Schmids horrendous crimes and his persona impregnate Oates short story. Schmid is described in the "Life...

'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway makes clear his own feelings even without stating them by delving more into the older waiters character than the younger...

Gender Perceptions on Rape and Responsibility

Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...

Sex Crimes, Blame, and Perceptions of Society

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

Responsibility and Guilt in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

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

Marxist View of the Misfit Character in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

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...

'The World War I Los Angeles Airplane' by Richard Brautigan

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

William Gibson's Burning Chrome

educated, for most people are in the future, and they just live a life that is filled with criminal activity. It is the norm and t...

The New South and the Black American Communities

groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...

Animal References in John Updike's 'A and P' and Colette's 'The Hand'

is described as apelike and lowered its claws, and became a pliant beast (Colette, 197)" (Johnny Boy). This critic indicates that ...

Theme of Identity Featured in Literary Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Sandra Cisneros

there is the father, a man who feels a deep connection with the past, and perhaps more importantly, the Mexican Revolution. It is ...

Hinduism, the Bhagavad Gita and Violence

seem to state that the goal for all initiates is to come to the place where the desires are eliminated, not by ceasing the actions...

Archetypal Analysis of 'Leaves' by John Updike

it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Feminism

the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...

'The Dead' and Dubliners by James Joyce

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

Somerset Maughan

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...

Comparative Analysis of D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner' and Graham Greene's 'The Destructors'

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Post Sin Lack of Mortal Salvation in 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

(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...

The Importance of Care In Nursing

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway and the 'Failed Artist'

to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...

Irony as a Literary Device

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

Good Detective Fiction and a Consideration of The Adventures of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...