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Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

Short Fiction's Depiction of Families

judgements about his surroundings came as naturally as breathing, yet he was raised with a cultural model that stressed that child...

Evaluation of Sudden Fiction Edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas

he is about to leave home, his oldest daughter asks her mother to do the can-can. His wife kicks up her heels and begins to dance....

Two Science Fiction Story Characterizations

stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...

Characterization of Abner Snopes and Symbolism in 'Barn Burning by William Faulkner

This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...

If Shakespeare Wrote Science Fiction, Ariel Would Use a Transporter

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

Comparing Chekhov, Nabokov & Viramontes

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

Analysis of Hemingway's, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Cyberpunk Lit: “Neuromancer”

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Literary Departure in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

Poe's Cask of Amontillado

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

Massie Affair & Detective Fiction

PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...

Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee's Rama II

the fact that there may be disagreement in discerning whether or not the teams were more homogeneous than mixed. In other words, o...

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino's Style of Directing

In five pages this paper discusses how Quentin Tarantino addresses the human condition in his filmmaking style and in the violent ...

Characters in 'The Cook,' 'The Shipman,' 'The Doctor' and 'The Guildsmen' in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

be seen as a positive sign, as it is though the tales that many of the characters are seen to show their true colours. However, wi...

Analysis of Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

have fallen upon hard times. She does this with her first view of Dunnet Landing, as she describes it as a "coast town . . . more ...

Female Characters, Gender Roles, and Humor in the Sex and the City TV Series

This HBO cable series is critiqued in 5 pages with gender roles, humor, and female characterizations analyzed....

Martin Scorsese Cinematic Comparison

In nine pages Bringing Out the Dead and Taxi Driver are contrasted and compared in terms of themes, characterization, and cinemati...

Character Analysis of Imogen in The Tragedy of Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

distainfully resists him, declaring, "Away! I do condemn mine ears that have / So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable, / T...

Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town'

This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses plot, purpose, characterizations, structural strategy and how the conclusion reflects...

Original Sin in the Characterization of Pearl in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how original sin is represented by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the characterization of Pearl in The S...

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

This paper consists of five pages and examines this novel about the Civil War in terms of its subject matter and characterizations...

American Experience and Change in Irving, Calisher, and Hawthorne

In four pages the acceptance of change among individuals are compared in the characterizations of Calisher's Greenwitch, Hawthorne...

Title Significance of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

In two pages this essay analyzes the play's title significance and how it influences both plot and characterization....

Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker--may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was...

Writing Style of Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter

In nine pages this paper examines the writing style featured in this novel in a consideration of characterization structure and de...

Overview of Postmodern Science Fiction

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...