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the South and its prejudices behind to escape the sexual abuse of her father, a one-time rabbi turned shopkeeper, whose racism fou...

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

it looks like a Holstein calf, and she is waggin her finger at me and sayin, "Child, you got to grab hold of the things you want i...

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

death(The Death/synopsis). He simply lived his life like most people do: work, family, community. There was nothing else. Or was t...

is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...

being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...