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'Young Goodman Brown' and 'Roger Malvin's Burial' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages a comparative analysis of these Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories focuses on character, theme, development, and how ...

'Man in the Black Suit' by Stephen King

In five pages this paper analyzes Stephen King's short story in terms of how the author employs the setting of rural Maine. There...

Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner

In five pages Col. John Sartoris's role in the story is examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Revelation of Colonel Sartoris Snopes in 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

or not he should warn the de Spains illustrate the strength of family loyalty or as Faulkner calls it "the old fierce pull of bloo...

'The Tiger's Bride' by Angela Carter

Carter's 1979 short story is the focus of this report consisting of five pages in which marriage as a social institutuion is criti...

Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson'

In five pages the telling of this short story and the messages contained within are analyzed. One source is listed in the bibliog...

Brief Synopsis of William Faulkner's Barn Burning

This paper offers an explication of the story in three pages and includes setting, tone, style, characters, summary, narrator, the...

'Tip of the Iceberg' in Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

In five pages this report discusses how Hemingway's short story presentations are typically merely 'the tip of the iceberg' with t...

'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence

In five pages this paper evaluates the luck of Paul, the protagonist in this short story by D.H. Lawrence. Six sources are cited ...

Comparative Analysis of 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'A and P' by John Updike

This paper compare these James Joyce and John Updike short stories in an analytical essay consisting of five apges. There are no ...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe and Reader Response Theory

In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...

Nature of Evil in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this paper discusses the theme of evil within the context of this short story by Shirley Jackson. There are no othe...

Chosen Place, Timeless People by Paule Marshall

In five pages this book and the interwoven character stories are reviewed and analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Rain Forests and Fictional Newira People

In five pages this fictional overview of a rain forest group includes the people's story of creation, religion, economics, and liv...

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

This 5 page paper argues that Phoenix Jackson, the protagonist of Eudora Welty's story A Worn Path, is mentally ill. The writer al...

'Greenleaf' by Flannery O'Connor and the Symbolic Importance of the Bull

This short story is discussed in an analysis of the many types of bull symbolism featured throughout in a paper consisting of five...

Narrator Sammy in 'A and P' by John Updike

to whom Sammy is attracted, enter the A&P, there is a problem. The manager berates them, and they are seemingly embarrassed. Samm...

John Barth's 'Lost in the Funhouse'

This is a book review consisting of 5 pages that considers the collective work of short stories and essays and how the works stead...

Beowulf Digressions

If our theory is accurate, the digressions serve as portals of time, and remind the listener that he is able to move about in all ...

A look at The House on Mango Street by Cisneros

up being a house that was "crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in" (4). It is smal...

Comparative Analysis of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

In five pages this paper compares the similarities of the turning points in each of these stories. Four sources are cited in the ...

Satire Used by Edgar Allan Poe in 'The Spectacles'

In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...

Symbolic Meaning of the Cask in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...

'Flying Home' by Ralph Ellison

Home and Other Stories. The story "Flying Home" had actually been published back in 1944, but had received at that time little cr...

Analyzing 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

in the first place. Frankenstein has two obvious choices. He can say I was not thinking of the Creature and was consumed by his ...

A Critical Review of A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

This 5 page essay examines the reaction the author's story solicited from its readers. 7 sources are cited....

Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Works

In seven pages Poe's works are analyzed within the context of his short stories 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House o...

Dhammapada's Social Lessons

In nine pages this paper examines women's role as conceptualized by Dhammapada in a consideration of the Buddha's 'five beauties' ...

Metaphor in 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver

extensively from both the perspective of the unsighted as one who fails to see the beauty of the world around him to the sightless...