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Essays 421 - 450
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
the Russian culture has long remained something of a mystery as well. Even despite the seemingly mysterious nature of Russian l...
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...
it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....
in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...
understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...
major role in shaping our behavior, temperament, and intelligence" (PBS). While nature plays important roles in ones life, the env...
This 3 page paper discusses the short story “A Fifty-Year Old Man” by Shusaku Endo and answers questions about it. Bibliography li...
In five pages this report examines how the primary characters in each of these short stories undergoes different changes. Five so...
we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...
Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...
In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...
terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...
In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...
adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...
movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...