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Grace and Its Mystery in 'Revelation,' 'Good Country People,' 'Greenleaf' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...

'What You Pawn I Will Redeem' by Sherman Alexie

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

Aimee Bender's 'The Rememberer' and Surrealism

applied to literature in terms of presenting visual imagery in words that does not need to make sense and involves the subconsciou...

'War is Kind' and 'A Mystery of Heroism' by Stephen Crane

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Their Narrators' Unreliability

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan and Identity

took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

'The Business Man' by Edgar Allan Poe

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

'Circular Ruins' by Jorge Borges

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

Hawthorne, Faulkner and the Element of Culture

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

'Eveline' by James Joyce and Religion

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

Cultural Violence and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

Catherine Lim and 'Or Else, the Lightening God'

In one such commentary, "Managing political dissent," she offers up a look at Singapore from many perspectives. In this essay one ...

Reflections of an Era in 'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

Why Homer Was Murdered by Emily in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

Comparative Analysis of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour' and William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...

Mahasweta Devi and Naguib Mahfouz on Life and Death

until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...

"Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin

This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...

"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

This essay discusses the themes, symbolism and context of the conflict between the genders that defines this Hemingway short story...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This essay pertain to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." The writer discusses plot, metaphor, s...

"Barn Burning," Sarty's Attitudes Towards his Father

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

A Critique of Marriage, Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...

CSI, the Detective Genre, and "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

Hawthorne and Anti-Transcendentalism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...

Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing

words ONLY is a little over 9 pgs!!! 11 14 3037 (5-10-10) 3150 12 15 3375 13 16 3600 14 18 15 19 16 20 4500...

My Teaching Job in Burma

was I really going to be able to make it here for six months? I felt bad thinking this way - this was my parents home once, after ...

"Dr. Glass-Case" by De Cervantes

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Paragraph Analysis to 'Provoke Study'

life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...

A Film Adaptation/Soldier's Home

adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...