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Essays 271 - 300

Different Versions for the Biblical Flood

This report identifies and discusses different sources for Noah and the Flood. There were four much older stories of such a flood ...

Charlotte Perkins Gillman: Women in Victorian Times

This 6 page paper gives an analysis of the story the Yellow Wallpaper. This paper includes comparisons from Gillman's own life a...

Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...

Poe's tale about Amontillado

This 7 page paper gives an analysis of the story “The Cask of Amontillado”. This paper includes discussion or other articles about...

Rogerian Therapy, Hansen's "My Kid's Dog"

This essay pertains to "My Kid's Dog," a short story by Ron Hansen. The writer discusses how the story reflects the therapeutic ap...

Human Nature in Gulliver's Travels

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the story Gulliver's Travels. This paper includes human nature and corruption as theme with...

Two Views of Murder

because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...

A Traditional Hawaiian 'Talk' Story

After two days with them, I felt sure I could stay with them forever. I remember the smells of their house, the ginger cookies,...

A Character and Thematic Comparison of Desiree's Baby and Antlers

knowledge that Desiree has gone to her death, even though Arnaud will have to cope with a revelation that shakes the foundations o...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

2 Narratives on the Latina Experience

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

A Comparison of 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan and 'First Confessions' by Frank O'Connor

structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...

Dramatic Irony in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

Mind and Body in the Works of Judith Ortiz Cofer and Alice Walker

from thereon, looked different. She was no longer cute, but different. Other people did not seem to care that she looked different...

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and Alternative Outcomes

gone with him there are several ways in which this could have altered the story. The first example will discuss how the story coul...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

other nations, acting in commercial or diplomatic positions (The Literature Network). Then in 1385 he apparently lost his job as w...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich as Tolstoy's Commentary on Materialism

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

James Joyce's 'A Mother' and Refuting the Interpretation of Martin F. Kearney

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

Louise Erdrich: “The Red Convertible”

the stop by a river and it seems everything is fine, but Henry is too far gone to be helped. He jumps into the river and drowns; L...

The Last Two Sections of 'The Plague' by Albert Camus

on the outside world. In one particular quote the reader gets an understanding of this evolution of the people, as it begins, as o...

Bessie Head and Mahasweta Devi's Patriarchy Perspectives

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

Through The Gates Of Splendor

four Aucas showed up at the camp to visit them. The missionaries gave each of the visitors more gifts to demonstrate their intenti...

Critique on the Variations of the Rapunzel Folk/Fairy Tale

Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...

'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor and Denial

involved. Julians mother takes center stage as a black woman enters the bus wearing the same hat as his mother. While race certain...

Cinderella's Contemporary Variations

own. But there is a version of Cinderella that is commonly known. This version, or compilation of versions, contains fundamental e...

The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

Chitra Divakaruni's 'Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter'

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...

'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and the Narrator

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

Short Stories

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...