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on real events, but a fictional work inspired by the nature of the wealthy and powerful and the nature of simple young women lured...

as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...

This essay pertains to setting in of James Joyce's "Araby," Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," and T. ...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

revolved around her. She was, in many ways, experimenting with her sexuality as well, a very significant part in coming of age. Sh...

offers insight into the significance of the stranger for his role is to teach the narrator, to make him see in a very new and powe...

look at her, playing the woman although she is not a woman. "She was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of cranin...

and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...

Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...

Joyce Carol Oates intertwines the element of tragedy in The Crying Baby, The Passion of Rydcie Mather and Where areYou Going? Whe...

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

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

Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...

In eleven pages this 1993 text is examined in terms of individual chapters that deal with Malcolm X's black society influence mobi...

he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

THAT was the real story!" This was the case because it was a production that was true to the story. It did not rely on special eff...

Introduction James Joyces Araby and James Baldwins Sonnys Blues are two very intimate and powerful short stories that utilize fir...

out of the ordinary that they are shocking (Updike). (And yes, there really is an A&P-the abbreviation is short for the Great Atla...

OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

yet, continued Gabriel, his voice falling into a softer inflection, there are always in gathering such as this sadder thoughts tha...

1984). They are "depicted as powerless, passive, and silent or, if they do act, as monstrous; Mrs. Mooney, after all, has the sens...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

and cultural socialization make life difficult. This theme is evocatively demonstrated in Joyces story "Araby", which illustrates...

In six pages this paper provides breakdowns of Childhood, Adolescence, Maturity, and Public Life in a consideration of story plot ...