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human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...

to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

In five pages this paper discusses the themes of life and death evoked by Jack London in his short story 'To Build a Fire.' Four ...

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

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

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

inner most desire is that God would "notice and...talk to him also" as he did to men in the Old Testament (55). Bentley comes to s...

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

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

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

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

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...

Secure in the knowledge that his origins are unknown, Max joins a white supremacist group and allies himself with their bigotry. S...

a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...