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'Oriental Tale' Motif and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

In two pages this paper examines the motif of the 'Oriental Tale' in terms of its significance to the relationship between the sto...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and Humor

In five pages the ways Washington Irving employed humor in his famous story are examined. Six sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Functioning of Viewpoints in Margaret Laurence's 'The Loons' and William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

In five pages the viewpoint's functions in these respective stories are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources liste...

Angela Carter's 'The Werewolf' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Hop Frog'

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

Ambiguity in 'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

was eventually decided upon as a fix-it solution soon turned into a mistake of good intention when, in 1965, Charles Scribner Jr. ...

Elie Wiesel's Night and Albert Camus' The Plague

In seven pages these stories are compared in terms of their similar messages regarding the Second World War's harsh realities. Th...

Natural Born Killers Film by Director Oliver Stone

In five pages this 1994 film is analyzed in terms of story with character, cinematics with editing, and meaning with theme. Three...

Overview of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the story and characters featured in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. There are no o...

Symbolic Motifs and Gothic Imagery of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

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

Tadeusz Borowski and the Holocaust

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Tales and Society

In 5 pages The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle is the focus of this analysis of the social conflicts and expec...

'A and P' by John Updike and Self Discovery

In 5 pages this paper examines how detail and contrast are employed by the author to thematically depict self discovery in this sh...

Society and the Individual in the Writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Edgar Allan Poe

In 8 pages this paper considers how society and the individual is thematically portrayed in the stories 'The Masque of the Red Dea...

Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Oppositions

In 5 pages this paper discusses the North and South oppositional relationship as depicted in these stories by Bierce and Faulkner....

Life and Times of 'Boss' Tweed

William M. 'Boss' Tweed's life and times are discussed in eight pages with his political corruption only part of the story. There...

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

magazine contest whose prize is the opportunity to work in New York City for a month. She is a sensitive and highly intelligent wo...

'Write On!' Analysis

Unlike "new mathematical algorithms or chemistry theorems" (Bauer, 1999; p. 112), any reader of any age can produce some kind of s...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Symbols

In five pages this paper analyzes Poe's use of symbols in this short story. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Drawbacks of Narration As Seen in Two Works By Conde and Carpentier

and an unquenchable desire to portray her inner pain, Conde favored a more simplistic approach to convey the immense pain and suff...

Oppression of Women in Shirley Jackson's 'The Tooth' and 'The Lottery'

In five pages this paper discusses how women are subjected to oppression by men in these 2 short stories by Shirley Jackson. Seve...

The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski

writings, one will realize that Kapuscinski was striving for a very comparable abstract with The Soccer War. Indeed, the story wi...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner and Southern History

In seven pages this paper examines the history of the Old South as it reveals intself in William Faulkner's short story. Four oth...

'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence from a Sociological Perspective

In this paper containing five pages this short story is evaluated in terms of its sociological aspects. There are two additional ...

Two Tolstoy Works Compared

Jealousy and marriage and how they drive the plot line and story in this paper, which compares Leo Tolstoys' Family Happiness and ...

Guest of the Nation by Frank O'Connor and Character Depth

and Hawkins, two Englishmen. The setting is OConnors homeland of Ireland. The time frame is early twentieth century, during the ...

The Plague by Albert Camus

In three pages Camus's story is analyzed in terms of characterizations and their meanings especially in terms of quarantine isolat...

Father's Role and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the author's feelings concerning a father's role by blurring the past and the present in thi...

Intellectual Infatuation in 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe

"super sleuth," August Dupin who was certainly as erudite and calmly logical as Sherlock Holmes or any of the other witty, urbane,...

'The Monk's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and Religious Hypocrisy

In six pages this paper examines the religious hypocrisy represented in the Monk's personality in this Canterbury Tales' story. S...

Charlotte Pierce Baker and Houston A. Baker's Analysis of Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' Reviewed

A review of this critical analysis of the short story 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker is presented in seven pages. There are no ot...