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the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...
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...
to relate both to the circumstances of the presumed authors life and to the larger historical and political setting of the time bu...
can readily see how this outlook is what has cast Krebs into the sinking hole from which he only somewhat struggles to get free; r...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...
imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
and comparing characters will find issues of subjugation and class privilege clearly define every aspect of the lives of all the c...
as Emily has illustrated, there exist a vast array of relationships that do not involve romantic love at all, but rather incorpora...
the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
the community live, Angelas twin brothers, Pedro and Pablo, feel compelled to enact revenge on Santiago in order to redeem the fam...
Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...
is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
when David was witness to Goliaths rantings, David offered to fight the Giant in order to allow victory over the Philistines (The ...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...
statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
argue he is standing up to injustice in the world as it involves the young girls. As one author states, "At first glance, Sammy, t...