YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Stories by Adam Haslett
Essays 241 - 270
reflected that the fruits of capitalism were well worth the journey. Interestingly, there would be a significant ideological confl...
in the context of economic growth" (Afonso, 2001). One of Smiths (1991) greatest concerns is the variance in national wealth from...
opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...
is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
socialism (Stone 14). The story is one that shows the societal structure and the flaws of the bourgeoisie and the reasons behind...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
difficult time creating a cohesive worldview. Because of this the aboriginal people often had to struggle with ways in which to un...
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
of the unsolvable interlinked labyrinth through the pursuits of Yu Tsun, the great grandchild of the philosopher Tsui Pen who quit...
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...
the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...
parents simply abandoned the children. There are many directions such a story could take. In this case one could claim that the pa...
was not until 1624 and the publication of Smiths The Generall Historie of Virginia...&c., that Smith told the story that "as man...
(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...
the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
investigation of the dhamma, energy, rapture or happiness, calm, concentration, and equanimity" (Thera, 2009). The story entitle...
home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....
problem is, he and Sonny have never really understood one another; or rather, his brother has never truly understood Sonny. For So...
friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...
hinting, not very subtly, that if Odysseus is dead it will be up to Telemachus to revenge him. But even more importantly and in a ...