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

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

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

happy: "Except that one day Haroun asked one question too many, and then all hell broke loose" (Rusdie, 1990, p. 8). The question ...

substantiates this position by indicating that the origins of Job can be found in folk poetry, but also believes that the beauty o...

no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

context to some extent, while also understanding the social and political oppression the African American people experienced at th...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

begins by describing the elaborate, beautiful and impractical nature of the Chinese Emperors palace, which is so delicate that you...

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

Essentially, Mario kills the magician just like Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK. Most explicators of this story tend to see the theme...

a world now in America, a woman is basically in the hands of the world of men. They have little or no control over their destinies...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...

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

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...

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

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...

"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...

any sustenance for her. This brings in the thematic element of the shawl in a very powerful way for Magda would suck on the shawl,...

active service with the Republicans, though not as a soldier but as a medical corpsman (Donahue). Although such a position was a "...

and A Canary for One are three such pieces that are a reflection of Hemingways typical nature in that they befit the very essence ...

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

one year, what it is that women truly want from a man. For whatever reason, the Queen has chosen to give the man a choice - death...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...