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by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...

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...

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...

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

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...

we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...

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...

isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

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...

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

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...

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 ...

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...