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Religion and John Updike

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...

"Dry September" by William Faulkner

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Dry September." The writer offers analysis of the plot and argues that Faulkner use...

"Barn Burning" by William Faulkner

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...

Mason’s Shiloh

Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...

The Power, and Pain, of Freedom: Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

Hendel: "Apples in Honey"

country seems to be in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors, and on the fact that this eternal war has become the norm. Th...

Discussion of Ways of Knowing

This essay pertains to Margaret Edson's play "Wit," and Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use." The writer argues that each of ...

"Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

"Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin

This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...

Short Story Analysis:The Guest

This 6 page paper is an analysis of the short story by Camus called The Guest. This paper gives a summary of the story as well as ...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This essay pertain to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." The writer discusses plot, metaphor, s...

Junot Diaz, "How to Date a Brown Girl..."

This essay pertains to "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)" by Junot Diaz. Referring to a description if...

2 Short Stories, Identity

This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...

Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

Running in Place by Pamela C. Joern

This essay offers analysis of Pamela C. Joern's short story "Running in Place." The writer focuses on Joern's skill in regards to ...

The Short Story Chac-Mool by Carlos Fuentes

The writer analyzes the short story Chac-Mool by Carlos Fuentes, and argues that it is representative of his style. The paper is f...

Short Stories 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

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

Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

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

'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' by Ernest Hemingway

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

Kate Chopin's Depiction of Marriage

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

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway

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

'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

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

An Analysis of James Alan McPherson's The Story of a Scar

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

Short Stories of Margaret Atwood

she is known for. This particular compilation of stories was written prior to her incredible fame and would thus indicate that she...

'The Curse' by Andre Dubus

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

Amy Tan's Short Story 'Two Kinds'

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...

Canadian Storyteller Thomas King

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...

2 Narratives on the Latina Experience

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

Importance of the Unknown Letter Writer in 'Her Letters' by Kate Chopin

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...