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at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

hallmark of cinematic portrayals of blindness in the 1960s and 70s, dramatized the fears of the able-bodied concerning disability,...

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

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

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...

he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...