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in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

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

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

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

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

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

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

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...

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

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

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...