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in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes clear t...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

question, one of the jurors came up to her later and told her, "I dont want you to think it was unanimous--it wasnt" (Sereny 360)....

and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...

In five pages these stories are compared and contrasted in terms of their portrayals of good and evil and the failings of society....

symbolizes heavy choices, heavy responsibility, and perhaps many different things to many different people. It also helps us see t...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...

he recognizes this. They are a challenge and women have always been drawn to him. But, with this one woman he begins to become far...

and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...

are the American couple and they are simply trying to get in an adventure before Mark dies. They have always wanted to see Ireland...

play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...

as the world is filled with poison and chaos and destruction. They meet Oryx at a time when they are perhaps struggling to find so...

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

and hides and works for a man who never questions him, and he is torn terribly with his emotions because he wants to run and yet h...

this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...

of passion in their lives, this somber existence. The mood is also set by the tone as it develops along with the plot. In Lawrence...

Like White Elephants" we have a man and a woman, although the characters are an American Man and a Girl, wherein the man is seemi...

her training in society was different, for her focus was on religion and the proper way things should be done. While the mother in...

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...