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to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts--sometime...

Lennie talk of their plans for a farm, he immediately feels the pull of this dream. He asks, "Spose I went with you guys...I aint ...

are futile and are only keeping her from seeing the truth. One author, in reviewing a book about Austens work, notes that...

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

could have happened when the intentions were so noble. In other words, this novel/fable is a "must read" for anyone trying to unde...

is notable about Tolkien is that his world makes internal sense. Each race (Elves, Dwarves, Men, Orcs, etc.) has a distinct langua...

friends-who were all at the same class at school-had the idea that war is glorious and noble, an attitude encouraged by their teac...

his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...

more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...

(Eliot 30). In addition she is "likely to seek martyrdom," then try to escape it only to have it befall her when she stopped looki...

most memorable stories and characters in American literature, and they remain popular to this day. This paper considers perhaps hi...

delivered, uncompleted phone calls, overtures not taken up, appeals repulsed. William Faulkner, who praised the novel, said that w...

Oedipus. He learned that his predecessor and his wifes late husband, King Laius, had been murdered, Oedipus contends that it shou...

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

dialect, plain speaking, and easily conversational (Bloom 95). The subject of local gossips whispers, the thrice-married Janie co...

author points out, it would be impossible to spend as much time on each and every event and person mentioned in the Old Testament....

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...

to the twenty-first century reader somewhat of an ordeal to read through the entire volume. The author for example talks about nin...

ever see a production of the original play. In light of such information we can assume that, in their original context, both stori...

about them that is unknown to pagan literature (Byfield 2). This is true not only for the book authored by Tolkien but also for th...

that it is only through science and the scientific method of inquiry that human beings can obtain reliable knowledge (Nord, 1999)....

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

mother, "Little Women centers on the conflict between two emphases in a young womans life-that which she places on herself, and th...

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...

controlling his temper, modesty, and manliness, he learned piety, abstinence, and how to live simply "far removed from the habits ...

Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...