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when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

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

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

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

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

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

of such an objective that one becomes labeled as selfish and intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation o...

anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

In five pages this short story by Raymond Carver is examined in an analysis of the blind character Robert and what he symbolizes. ...

all, it appears that the author addresses social stratification by putting the protagonist in this particular setting. What the p...

In five pages this research paper presents a character analysis of the brothers featured in this short story by James Baldwin. Fi...

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

he likes the fact that his wife is confused and thinking he is a homosexual. Frank takes advantage of her confusion and...

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

was much different.) There are other aspects to the mum that remind us of Kin. First, a flower of any kind is beautiful, but pra...

agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...

takes on the persona of Samantha, and Samantha eagerly takes on the persona of Amanda because they seem to be the same. There ar...

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

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

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

and possibly to establish a comfort level with something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area at...

just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...

her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...