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to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...

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

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...

books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...