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Essays 271 - 300
In five pages Poe's short story is analyzed in terms of the author's masterful point of view usage. There are no other sources li...
A short story analysis consisting of three pages is presented in terms of the relationship between father and son and the elements...
In five pages this essay analyzes the development of the protagonist Elisa in a consideration of this John Steinbeck short story. ...
four men. As Crane describes the four men, he continues to emphasize the perilous quality of their situation. Only six inches of ...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
In ten pages this paper compares the worldview clashes featured in the short stories of John Updike and Flannery O'Connor in an a...
In five pages the last short story by Flannery O'Connor is analyzed and emphasizes the thematic importance of condemnation and red...
In five pages this paper presents a biographical profile of the author and also provides a brief analysis of his popular literary ...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
In five pages this paper examines the oral cultural traditions of Africa in a short story analysis of 'Talk' recounted by Courland...
is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...
he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...
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...
It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...
right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...
This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...
controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...