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The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner from a Psychological Perspective

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

'August 2026 There will com soft rains' by Ray Bradbury

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

Uses of Symbolism Throughout 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...

Short Story Analysis of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...

'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin and Freedom from Love

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

'The Bridegroom' by Ha Jin

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

Short Storie Elements in Works by John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

'Drink My [Red] Blood' by Richard Matheson

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

Comparison of 'Survival' by John Wyndham and 'The Son's Veto' by Thomas Hardy

above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...

'Shadows on the Rock' by Willa Cather

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

John O'Hara's 'Straight Pool'

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright and the Gun's Role

do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....

Symbolism in 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

Irony in the Short Stories 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor and 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

'The Life You Save May Be Your Own' by Flannery O'Connor and Religious Themes

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

Realism and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

Analyzing 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

Eleven As Modernist Literature

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

Summary and Analysis of 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

An Analysis of Katherine Mansfield's 'Miss Brill'

this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...

Good and Evil in 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

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

Symbols Used in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway and Harold Krebs

some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

Flannery O'Connor's 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' and Themes of Class and Money

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

Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson,' Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People' and Blissful Ignorance

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

Houston Promotion and the Value of Drama and Literature

In five pages this paper examines how Houston promotes drama and literature through theater and writers groups and considers their...

'Do You Like It Here?' by John O'Hara

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...