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other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...

my birthday and my parents are throwing a party for me. Its no surprise, but thats just as well. I cant ever remember having a p...

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

gotten his teaching certificate and then gone on to work for several years in education-at least enough to get noticed and promote...

why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...

(in the context of marriage), religion cannot be sexual. "Sexuality may be spiritual, but spirituality may not be sexual, it seems...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

be left with a limp as a reminder of his close call, however. However, because of this illness, he would often be sent to live ...

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...

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

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...

The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...

and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

While she has gone to do this, Macbeth, again imagines that he hears knocking and sees an image of a hand plucking out his eyes. ...