YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Stories by Adam Haslett
Essays 841 - 870
In many ways, as the story progresses, the reader essentially forgets her heart condition. But, if one keeps this in mind one can ...
defined point of view, which is often that of the author. By giving "specific and sensory details," the author gets the reader inv...
the pressure and approved wage hikes, however, they quickly evaporated as inflation crept into the warring city. Gordei and his c...
for. There is less time for the couple to enjoy each other, and Ben especially resents the lack of sexual spontaneity. In one fl...
still places on the planet where nature is more important than man and his machines, and where nature actually "knows best" and sh...
the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
on real events, but a fictional work inspired by the nature of the wealthy and powerful and the nature of simple young women lured...
enough cotton over the next summer to buy her a new coat. However, it is also clear that his mother feels compelled to hold James ...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
structure, which basically picture the lower classes as not "as good" as those fortunate enough to be a member of the ruling class...
She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...
cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...
killed in battle. Whatever the precise thing or event they represented in that hazy chapter of mans early history, one thing is c...
both works. The fact that Joseph rejects the advances of his bosss wife does not mean he is not interested in her. While she was p...
to exhume personal details of the episode that bear no benefit to the reading audience other than to give them an inside glance to...
It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...
emphasize that it is a Microsoft world already. His childhood was rather ordinary. Bills father was a lawyer and his mother, a sc...
film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...
coming home from the city, he is ill and he knows why but when he is admitted to the hospital no one has any idea what his trouble...
This man, stranded on an island, also living there for 4 years, like Selkirk, and also managing to survive on what he could find a...
system (Verghese). "It was clear, though no one had yet seen a case, that he was Johnson Citys first case of the acquired immune d...
a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...
best in this particular situation is the installation of a geothermal heating and air conditioning system. This is particularly t...
agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...
boy of 16, was less than polite to the Nakamura family and seemed very racist, constantly telling the family he had wanted to go t...
summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...
letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...
comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...
no choices" (Jones). This is obviously untrue-there are always choices. But Herbie has convinced himself that this is his only op...