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his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

constantly to the topic of the beautiful heifer that Uwe has purchased as a present for his bride. The cow cannot be separated fro...

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

This paper analyzes Christian's short story collection, Rain on a Tin Roof. The author focuses on details of Christian's coming o...

clerk in the store, he has no respect for his boss or the people who use his services. At the same time,...

telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...

This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

to those impacts than are others. The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best ...

opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...

to follow through with the patients final wishes. In acknowledging that these situations exist, the author also shows how people ...

In five pages this paper discusses how in The Yellow Wallpaper the storyteller reflects author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Three so...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

This writer/tutor does not, of course, have any idea how the student feels on this topic, or, for that matter, the specific course...

adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...

in order to understand the emergence and potency of nationalism we must rely on social communication. That reliance is particular...

are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...

In five pages the author's naturalist perspective is applied to life's questions including the place of humanity, God, and what th...

In four pages this Portuguese literary classic is examined within the contexts of history and the life of the author's life. Thre...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

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 ...

This essay pertains to "My Kid's Dog," a short story by Ron Hansen. The writer discusses how the story reflects the therapeutic ap...

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

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