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Tom Franklin's "Grit"

story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing

words ONLY is a little over 9 pgs!!! 11 14 3037 (5-10-10) 3150 12 15 3375 13 16 3600 14 18 15 19 16 20 4500...

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

The Necessity of Gesture

out of the ordinary that they are shocking (Updike). (And yes, there really is an A&P-the abbreviation is short for the Great Atla...

Henry Lawson: The Drover’s Wife

out and the family, along with their dog Alligator, kill it. The drovers wife shows great strength of character here; she not only...

Hemingway's Turning of Tables in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

Macomber." Review of the Binaries Argument One way that Hemmingway explored the question...

Magical Realism and Marquez’s Death Constant Beyond Love

Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...

Calixta in “The Storm”

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...

Chestnutt: A Close Reading of The Web of Circumstance

glimpse of life in the South 15 years after the end of the Civil War. This paper is a close reading and interpretation of the end ...

The Necklace/Guy de Maupassant

Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...

Willa Cather and Amy Tan and Point of View

view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...

The Lottery and Its Symbolism

the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...

Nawabdin Electrician

whom he ultimately has no sympathy for, indicating very strongly that the character of Nawab knows that people make their own choi...

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

Examining Scenes from Sonny’s Blues

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

Prejudice against the Disabled

hallmark of cinematic portrayals of blindness in the 1960s and 70s, dramatized the fears of the able-bodied concerning disability,...

An Honest Exit

reader/writer felt to be intriguing and important. The student requesting this essay may feel differently but the story of his fat...

Jackson’s Literary Devices

at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

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...

'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

Depiction of Women in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

'Never Marry a Mexican' by Sandra Cisneros

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan and Identity

took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

'The Business Man' by Edgar Allan Poe

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Their Narrators' Unreliability

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

Instruction in High School Grammar Lesson Plan

Teach the teacher a new instructional design or some better way of grammar instruction! There are three parts to your task, and e...

Gender Understanding and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

Analysis of 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...