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scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

contemporary society. "People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at t...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

Each character in the story has their own agenda. Medbourne was once successful but had lost his money and Killigrew had given in ...

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...

At the same time, however, the critic takes on the role of the patient in their transference of his or her feelings in regard to a...

conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...

Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which peop...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

In five pages this paper discusses the similarities between the journey into the woods and the Puritan journey into the wilderness...

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...