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meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

short story A Good Man is Hard to Find is a horrific narrative of delusion, lies and mass murder. It is also anthologized constant...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

ways that any change would be impossible for her. But when Mary Grace whispers her venomous insult, the message strikes home and R...

hinting, not very subtly, that if Odysseus is dead it will be up to Telemachus to revenge him. But even more importantly and in a ...

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...

was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

matters into his own hands, a reality perhaps perceived by the oracle. He believes the predictions of the witches, and thinks that...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...