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Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...

deeply offends the District Officer and his wife, Britons named Simon and Jane Parkinson (Scott, 2006). Things are further compl...

Tsun says no one can know his "innumerable contrition and weariness" (Borges). What does Borges mean when he claims the world is ...

follow orders or continue on the ship in the way of their previous existence. Because the story leads up to this, and...

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

as life slips away alongside the wonderment borne of childhood is, perhaps, some of the most intense and illustrative of all Hales...

was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...

sun-drenched countryside. The glare from the sky was unbearable" (Camus). In this first chapter the power and glare of the sun ...

powerful persuasiveness to lead man astray, the consequences of disobeying God and the subsequent struggle of all humanity. It is ...

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An...

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...

story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...

independence of British rule and the postcolonial and postimperial themes of independence are consistent through "The River Betwee...

seem to be too concerned with how the situation turned out; this, as I see now, was because he had a queue of others just waiting ...

the traditional interpretation of Eve as the originator of all sin and death for the human race. However, the student may wish to ...

insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...

Carthage queen, to fall in love with Aeneas. The entire story of Dido and Aeneas brims with fire imagery that demonstrates both Di...

the reader with picture-perfect images. As one author notes, in regards to this story, "Through joyous rituals, LeGuin outlines pa...

life experiences represent a world that echoes the way most of humanity has lived for the vast amount of time that human beings ha...

Accutane even for a short time are at great risk of having a baby with severe facial birth defects, malformed thymus glands, and m...

he marries her. He agrees and she tells him that women want the power. He returns to the king and queen and his life is spared by ...

freed black man and has just hopped onboard a slaving ship headed for Africa. The ships captain is a dwarf named Ebenezer Falcon, ...

God warned Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Conscience, but they did not heed his admonition. Convinced by the serpent th...

indicative of what the new emerging countries might become. Julio Cortazar does...