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Lying and Journalists

he created fake notes, fake voicemails, fake faxes, even a fake Web site - whatever it took to deceive his editors, not to mention...

The Stranger by Albert Camus

He replied that he had "rather lost the habit of noting" his feelings and, therefore, "hardly knew what to answer" (Camus 80). He ...

'I Want to Know Why' by Sherwood Anderson and Symbolism

are pure creatures and seeing them run or even trot, or perhaps even exist, makes this young man incredibly happy and content. The...

Blindness in 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'A Descent into the Maelstrom' and 'MS Found in a Bottle'

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

'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and 'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor

In five pages these stories are compared and contrasted in terms of their portrayals of good and evil and the failings of society....

Health and Illness Interpretations

shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes clear t...

Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny

question, one of the jurors came up to her later and told her, "I dont want you to think it was unanimous--it wasnt" (Sereny 360)....

Natalie Merchant's Song 'These Are Days You'll Remember' and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

Interpretation of 'Araby' by James Joyce

the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In five pages this story is examined in a discussion of the importance of identity in American society and its problems with racis...

Once and Forever by Kenji Miyazawa

In five pages these stories as translated by John Bester are analyzed in an overview the concentrates primarily upon 'Kenju's Wood...

Matryona's Home by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

In 5 pages a short story analysis that features the effects of government corruption upon rural Russia is presented. There are no...

American Literature as Defined by Edgar Allan Poe

In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...

Reflections of an Era in 'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

Why Homer Was Murdered by Emily in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

Dominant Paradigms in As Nature Made Him - The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl by John Colapinto

1960s "introduced the theory that children are not born with a gender identity, but rather form an understanding of gender through...

Comparative Analysis of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour' and William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...

Mahasweta Devi and Naguib Mahfouz on Life and Death

until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...

Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

Reality and Illusion Thematically Intertwined in 'Barbie Doll,' Edward Albee's 'The Sandbox,' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

said" (Walker). This very funny little snippet shows clearly what her mother thinks of Dee for making up what she thinks is an Af...

Catherine Lim and 'Or Else, the Lightening God'

In one such commentary, "Managing political dissent," she offers up a look at Singapore from many perspectives. In this essay one ...

'Eveline' by James Joyce and Religion

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

Cultural Violence and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

Juan Rulfo and Alexander Pushkin on the Supernatural

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

Hawthorne, Faulkner and the Element of Culture

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

one part of the dying process involves anger. However, in this case, Ivan is seemingly too extreme for his behavior to be explaine...

Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Structural Contrast

to think about such things, yet memories continue to crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories a...

'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...