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

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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)....

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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