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Eleven As Modernist Literature

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...

Importance of the Mother to D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

Cause and Effect in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...

'That Evening Sun' by William Faulkner

being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...

Women, Heart Disease, and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

Setting and Language of 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

Readings on Family Reunion Theme

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

Gender Relations in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Sweat' and Their Eyes Were Watching God

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

Sample of Creative Writing, 'Wild Strawberries'

it looks like a Holstein calf, and she is waggin her finger at me and sayin, "Child, you got to grab hold of the things you want i...

Language and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...

American Horror Writing and the Influence of British Authors

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

Living Well and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilych'

death(The Death/synopsis). He simply lived his life like most people do: work, family, community. There was nothing else. Or was t...

'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor and Theology

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

911: Significantly Changed Many Lives

better get the attention of their true target(s). Once regular citizens have been drawn into the web of bombings, hijackings and ...

Thematic Comparison of Short Stories ‘Newton’s Gift’ by Paul J. Nahin, ‘Absolutely Inflexible’ by Robert Silverberg, and ‘Meddler’ by Philip K. Dick

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

Alice Walker’s Coming Apart

pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...

Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie and Portrait of a Girl in Glass

visit is an old school friend of the son and daughter. In the play there is a similar sense of expectation involving this man as T...

Rhys: "Let Them Call It Jazz"

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

Explication of the Theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper"

"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...

Symbolism in Yasunari Kawabata’s The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

Character Analysis: Lyman in "The Red Convertible"

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

Glaspell: "A Jury of Her Peers"

and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

Graham Greene: "The Destructors"

to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

Literary Analysis: Flannery O'Connor; Three Works

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

Literary Analysis: "A Late Chrysanthemum"

was much different.) There are other aspects to the mum that remind us of Kin. First, a flower of any kind is beautiful, but pra...

Barn Burning by Faulkner

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

Two Mothers

by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...

Film Adaptation/Shoeless Joe & Field of Dreams

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...