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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 "...

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

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

the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...

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

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

to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...

until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...

and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

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

In five pages this paper discusses the themes of life and death evoked by Jack London in his short story 'To Build a Fire.' Four ...

The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

In five pages this paper discusses how the author's beliefs regarding death and Christianity are expressed in this short story by ...

structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...

The focus of this three page paper is a young boy's first experience with death as it unfolds in the short story in James Joyce's ...

In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...

prisoners and the captors into villains and victims. He views the entire situation as evil, not evil perpetrated upon the innocent...

This paper consists of six pages examines William Faulkner's life and the themes of life and death that abound in his novel The So...

In five pages this paper examines decay and death in a thematic analysis of this famous short story by William Faulkner particular...

In five pages Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...

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

In eight pages the ways in which Poe's death obsession manifests itself in ten of his short stories are examined. There are 4 bi...

son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...

In five pages the short story is examined in terms of family order and the fate of the May family's farm following Mrs. May's deat...

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the conflicts in the short stories 'The Other Foot' and 'All Summer in a Day' by R...