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Essays 421 - 450
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
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...
home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....
of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...
This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...
times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...
In four pages That Evening Sun by William Faulkner is examines in a consideration of the interaction between the children and Nanc...
In five pages the interaction between character and participation in an event that generates conflict is considered in 'Barn Burni...
In five pages this essay examines the influence of the Book of Genesis on such authors as William Faulkner and Thornton Wilder. T...
Character strengths and weaknesses and their family relationships are examined in this analysis of As I Lay Dying by William Faulk...
The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up...
This paper examines the important role the past plays in Absalom, Absalom! a 1936 novel by William Faulkner in six pages. There a...
to acquire land that turns a profit from their constant toil. "...The land is made habitable and profitable for him by the black ...
In nine pages this essay discusses the consequences of time on the Compsons featured in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner...
This paper examines how the Bildungsroman or coming of age technique is employed by William Faulkner in the portrayal of his 11 ye...
In five pages this paper discusses how the past is revived in 'Babylon Revisited' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in 'A Rose for Emily'...
and "marrying well". In the twentieth century, however, the Compsons breed a retarded child; two of the siblings have an incestuou...
he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...
In 6 pages this paper discusses human and cosmic justice within the context of this novel by William Faulkner and also considers h...
Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...
overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...
of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...
no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...