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Chitra Divakaruni's 'Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter'

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...

Bessie Head and Mahasweta Devi's Patriarchy Perspectives

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

'Loverboys' by Ana Castillo

our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...

Two Views of Murder

because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...

Elements of Short Stories

Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...

'Emilie Plead Choose One Egg' by Paule Barton

In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...

A Short Story

may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...

Italo Calvino/"The Adventure of a Reader"

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

Raymond Carver and Relationships

that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

Literary Realism and Social Problems

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

Faulkner and Bambara on Communities

expensive toy store. The children are amazed, as this gives them a glimpse of another world and lifestyle that is totally alien ...

Literary Elements in Poems "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson and "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and William Faulkner's Short Story "A Rose for Emily"

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway as Reflections of the Author's Life

quotes Gertrude Stein as calling Hemingways set "the lost generation" (Roth, 450). Although only a few of his stories and novels a...

Short Stories as They Reflect the Life of Ernest Hemingway II

In nine pages this paper examines how the life of Ernest Hemingway particularly his wartime experiences are reflected in his short...

Ernest Hemingway's Life Reflected in the Short Story 'Hills Like White Elephants'

driver, and at last he made it to the front in Europe during the height of World War I (Roth, 450). He was seriously wounded in It...

Life and Short Stories of Ring Lardner

who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...

William Gibson's Burning Chrome

educated, for most people are in the future, and they just live a life that is filled with criminal activity. It is the norm and t...

Stories by Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner

chose to make his sentences histories of actual perceptions and thoughts, an accomplishment recognized by biographer Carlos Baker,...

Literature and Dangerous Male Cultural Socialization

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

Edgar Allan Poe Interpretations

In seven pages interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' short story are presented by a comparative analy...

A Life in Art: How Kate Chopin’s Life Influenced Her Feminist Writings

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

Frontier Influence on Presidents George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln

cry may have gone out -the army is coming! And in 1794, Washington order 13000 men to march into the frontier to "deal" with The ...

Life and Writings of William Carlos Williams

he believed they "were too attached to European culture and traditions" (The Academy of American Poets, 2006). His work, on the ot...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and Literary Style

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...

"No Easy Answers"

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

John Updike/The Rumor

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...