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attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

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

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...

that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...

like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...

real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

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

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...