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In a paper consisting of three pages the theme of suffering is considered within the context of the short story written by James B...

son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...

In five pages education and its prejudices are captured in the poem 'Theme for English B.' and the short story 'The Lesson.' Ther...

In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...

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

and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...

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

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

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

books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...

the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...

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

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...

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...

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...

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...

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...