YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Stories by Adam Haslett
Essays 331 - 360
to be reducing altitude; since they were on combat patrol they assumed it was an attack (Schank 305). He finished by saying he tho...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...
alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
revolved around her. She was, in many ways, experimenting with her sexuality as well, a very significant part in coming of age. Sh...
four Aucas showed up at the camp to visit them. The missionaries gave each of the visitors more gifts to demonstrate their intenti...
Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...
but they carried him 1,000 feet and not the remaining 500 feet. The Japanese gave the man food and water and reported he was "list...
males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
the stop by a river and it seems everything is fine, but Henry is too far gone to be helped. He jumps into the river and drowns; L...
he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...
he holds the cloth and in his right, the knife; there is blood on the cloth, the red making a contrast to the snowy white. The mes...
a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...
In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...
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...
son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...
monstrous Green Knight after having already shown that he is unmarred when his own head is cut off (Norton 218). There is a great ...
been. She is flighty. She moved out of the family home early, as soon as she began college, but Maggie is still living at home. Wh...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
with this great solitude" (73). Kurtz allows all of his most primitive desires to run rampant. The experience of being away from a...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...