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the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

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...

of the unsolvable interlinked labyrinth through the pursuits of Yu Tsun, the great grandchild of the philosopher Tsui Pen who quit...

the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...

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...

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 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...

(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...

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 ...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

socialism (Stone 14). The story is one that shows the societal structure and the flaws of the bourgeoisie and the reasons behind...

males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

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...