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Franz Kafka and His Father

from a variety of illnesses, most particularly, tuberculosis. He was born in Prague, Czechia. He was fortunate in that he did not ...

The Lottery and Its Symbolism

the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...

THE LANGUAGE OF IMMIGRANTS

Discusses cultural and sociological aspects concerning different languages through stories written by Amy Tan, Gloria Anzaldua and...

Ralph Ellison’s Bingo Game

Invisible Man, a searing portrait of the way in which society ignores the African-Americans in its midst-making them "invisible." ...

The Symbolic Function of Marriage in Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"

literary works of early America, is awash with allegory and symbolic meaning. Ostensibly, the story tells the tale of a somewhat l...

Wangero’s Betrayal

shows the dilemma of those who seek to build a new life for themselves, at the cost of betraying their heritage. This paper discus...

Charles Baxter - The Disappeared

is a classic "quest" tale; the description of a mans journey through a strange new world, in this case, Detroit, Michigan. This pa...

Chestnutt: A Close Reading of The Web of Circumstance

glimpse of life in the South 15 years after the end of the Civil War. This paper is a close reading and interpretation of the end ...

The Necklace/Guy de Maupassant

Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...

The Yellow Wallpaper and Its Impact on the Narrator

and for good reason: it is a brilliant account of a womans descent into madness. Because it is handled so realistically, it is utt...

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

Alice Walker/Everyday Use

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

Alice Walker’s Everyday Use

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

Alice Walker: “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

“Harrison Bergeron”

bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...

Checkov’s Three Sisters

changes over time. While each of these perspectives may reflect some hidden despair, they also suggest that change is possible an...

Senior Citizen Interview

when they were all expected to be at home, go to church together and then share in a Sunday dinner. Chips absence caused a lot of...

The Impact of Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...

Canaries and Snow Country

have suddenly grown weak" which symbolizes also the weakness in the man as well through the death of his wife and the memory of hi...

Suffering and Conflict in Cultures

not necessarily better than the other. Death was perceived as a place, a further step in life that would offer more security and s...

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

about my feet, time I get this far,...Something always take a hold of me on this hill- pleads I should stay" (Welty). There is no ...

Soyinka: "Death and the King's Horseman"

deeply offends the District Officer and his wife, Britons named Simon and Jane Parkinson (Scott, 2006). Things are further compl...

Amy Tan’s Two Kinds: Mothers and Daughters

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

Cigarette Smoking in Adolescence (Article Review)

things also play a role in the analysis. While a variety of things are examined, and statistics complied, there is seemingly only ...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Green Knight is without fear, and without any weakness it would seem. He has simply come to dare any man to show that they are rea...

Film Adaptation/Shoeless Joe & Field of Dreams

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...

Borges: "The Garden of the Forking Paths"

Tsun says no one can know his "innumerable contrition and weariness" (Borges). What does Borges mean when he claims the world is ...

Two Mothers

by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...

About "Macbeth"

is "at once his greatest strength and his destructive weakness" (Bloom). Despite this, readers and playgoers dont respond with amb...