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of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...

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

Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...

and now theres gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweat...

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...

by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...

his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...

sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...

all her fault. Early in their marriage she became pregnant, and he was extremely unhappy about the child. He wanted to become esta...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...