YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories of Jack London
Essays 871 - 900
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
them on their journey to death are, more often than not, lacking in any sympathy or emotion, just as the characters in the end of ...
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...
day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...
who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...
Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...
camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...
three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...
bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...
long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...
In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...
In five pages this report examines how the primary characters in each of these short stories undergoes different changes. Five so...
we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...
Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...