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Community in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara

the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...

Why Homer Was Murdered by Emily in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

Bennett: "The Book of Virtues"

responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...

Frost and Williams and Death

is generally understood that when a child dies a strain sets in upon marriages, often leading to divorce. In essence, men and wome...

William Blake’s The Garden of Love

his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...

Tennessee Williams: Religion

of those in relation to us..." (The Religious Affiliation of Playwright Tennessee Williams). In looking at this particular...

Life Experiences and the Writings of Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain

is "rooted in memory" (The West Film Project). Essay Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), who obtained fame and fortune under h...

Comparative Analysis of the Writings of William Bradford and Thomas Paine

about their task. His introduction states, "It is well known unto the godly and judicious, how ever since the first breaking out o...

Relating the Life of Edgar Allan Poe to His Writings

increasing his sense of dysfunction. He would often turned to it in times of stress and depression and Poe would likely feel his i...

A look at Faulkner's Absalom Absalom and Wild Palms

the wealth that lingers in the background. Yet, this rags to riches story includes murder and mayhem and the fact that Sutpen earn...

The Imagery of Death in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"

extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...

Life and Writings of Joseph Conrad

own ship, Otago" (ClassicReader.com). The same year also saw him become an official British citizen. "In the following years Co...

Life and Writing of John Updike

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Lives, Writings, and Speeches

pastors in African American Baptist church and his father, Martin Luther King Sr. was also a civil rights leader who used the chur...

Life and Writings of Raymond Carver

making a comeback"(Carver 2003). This was the turning point for Carver. Many of his works are shaped by a sense of...

Foreshadowing in Faulkner's A Rose for Emily

Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...

How Ralph Ellison’s Life Affected His Writing

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

Life and Writings of Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel's life and writings are examined in an overview consisting of five pages. Six sources are cited in the bibli...

Life and Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Bernice Bobs her Hair," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Debutante," "Absolution," and "Winter Dreams." (http://www.sc.edu/...

Life and Writings of John Steinbeck

In 5 pages John Steinbeck's life and his literary works are discussed. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliography....

Ernest Hemingway's Life and Writings

war, his writing talents waned but soon a short novel, The Old Man and the Sea, would emerge in 1952 ("Hemingway" PG). He won the ...

Bret Harte's Life and Writings

In five pages this biography of Bret Harte includes the times in which he lived, his philosophy, and his text The Outcasts of Poke...

Life and Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois

This paper examines how W.E.B. Du Bois' life serves as a role model for the writer and also discusses his writings in four pages. ...

Life and Writing of H. L. Mencken

This paper consists of fourteen pages and examines the impact of his Baltimore hometown on H.L. Mencken's writing and his life. S...

Mark Twain's Life and Writings

In seven pages this paper discusses how the author's persona changes from his short stories such as 'The Gilded Age' and 'Innocent...

Life and Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

In an overview consisting of four pages various aspects of Poe's life are related to his works in what is less an analysis than a ...

Life and Writings of Jack London

In five pages this paper discusses Jack London in a consideration of his life and writings including 'To Build a Fire' and Call of...

Life and Writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer

In nine pages this paper discusses Yiddish American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer's life and writings including 'The Lecture' and '...

Life and Writings of James Fenimore Cooper

one of which he did not take advantage; Cooper appreciated all that was afforded to him. One of the most influential aspects of h...

Edith Wharton's Life, Writings, and Men

to ask her to marry him, but he remained her closest and most enduring friend throughout his life. Strangely, however, it was not...