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it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...

The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...

still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

he could write a piece on it, a travel journal of sorts. "Carless was a career diplomat stationed in Kabul who had done a lot of t...

of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...

"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...

has absolutely certainty in his own value and the value of his "modern" ideas. However, by rejecting older, more traditional appro...

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

by curiosity, I wanted something better" (Chekhov). However, the better life that she imagined did not materialize with her marria...

Paul one day, "why dont we keep a car of our own? Why do we always use uncles, or else a taxi?" "Because were the poor members of...

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

This paper applies Samuel Johnson's contention that 'representations of general nature' should be featured in good stories in a co...

In a paper consisting of five pages the representation of transformation in Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis,' Sartre's play 'No Exit,' ...