YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Mirgorod Stories of Gogol
Essays 61 - 90
this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
studying the nature outside the window, and begins to allow us to see that she is experiencing something far more profound and far...
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...
an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...
isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...
we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....
one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...
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...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
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 ...
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...
not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...
by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...
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...
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...
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...
amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...
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...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...
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...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...