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Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

Kate Chopin's Depiction of Marriage

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

Rogerian Therapy, Hansen's "My Kid's Dog"

This essay pertains to "My Kid's Dog," a short story by Ron Hansen. The writer discusses how the story reflects the therapeutic ap...

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

An Analysis of James Alan McPherson's The Story of a Scar

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

West Side Story, Manhattan Transfer, and Uses of Dialect

In five pages the ways in which ethnic dialects are used in the stories of West Side Story and Manhattan Transfer are considered. ...

Making a Difference Through Storytelling

who finds themself trapped with a, almost willingly, woman going insane. Twains "Huckleberry Finn" takes the reader with him along...

Kate Chopin and Marriage Aspects

In ten pages Chopin's stories 'Desiree's Baby,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and 'A Respectable Woman' are examined in terms of their t...

Canadian Literature and Violence

The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...

Comparative View of Salem's Witch Trials

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of the Salem witch trials presented in Francis Hill's A Delusion of Sata...

A Westerner's Trip to Burma

still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...

Sacrifice Narratives

son, to God is record in Genesis 22. God instructed Abraham to take "your son, your only son, whom you love-Isaac-and go to the re...

Forgiveness and the Dew Breaker

through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...

"The Hills Like White Elephants" - An Interpretation

contrast in each of these dualistic aspects of the setting reflects the dichotomous void that exists between the two central chara...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut: Point of View

The story's meaning as influenced by the omniscient third-person point of view adopted by Kurt Vonnegut is discussed in 4 pages. ...

Family Stories

similarity to the fascinating stories that are in both N. Scott Momadays House Made of Dawn and Anna Linzers Ghost Dancing as the ...

THEMES OF INNER CONFLICT IN "THE STORY OF AN HOUR"

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

The Blow is Struck

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

Descriptive Language in Fiction

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin

one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

The Story of an Hour

outside of this reality. Prior to focusing on these elements within the story it is imperative that a person understand the Vict...

"Young Goodman Brown" - A Psychoanalytic Reading

fa?ade of the townspeople and the reality of their participation with "evil" in the forest. It is common to interpret the narrati...

Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

Human Nature in Gulliver's Travels

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the story Gulliver's Travels. This paper includes human nature and corruption as theme with...

Different Versions for the Biblical Flood

This report identifies and discusses different sources for Noah and the Flood. There were four much older stories of such a flood ...

Charlotte Perkins Gillman: Women in Victorian Times

This 6 page paper gives an analysis of the story the Yellow Wallpaper. This paper includes comparisons from Gillman's own life a...

Poe's tale about Amontillado

This 7 page paper gives an analysis of the story “The Cask of Amontillado”. This paper includes discussion or other articles about...