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

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

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at American history. Discussion questions are answered in short essays about civil righ...

This research paper includes four short essays, which are on how slaves retained their sense of identity and community, Enlightenm...

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

used as power weapons in such crimes as drive-by shootings, minor altercations and myriad other random acts of violence. With the...

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...

Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

plan was due to fail on several fronts. First the plan itself was way too broad - and way too much for...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...

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

connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...

as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...