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Fielding & Inchbald / Morality

A 5 page paper comparing Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story with Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews. The paper concludes that the d...

Robert Beck's A Sociological and Psychological Look at Pimp The Story of My Life

In nine pages Beck's story is examined within the context of psychological and sociological perspectives with social deviance role...

Elements of Short Stories

Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...

Blue Sky Dream by David Beers

Club served by black-skinned mess men, gold wings, an elaborate and ready made construct of self-regard" (7). But when the circum...

Jon Williams' 'Taking Care'

Jon Williams' story 'Taking Care' is analyzed in terms of the story itself as well as the character development in five pages. Th...

Love Letters on Blue Paper by Arnold Wesker

In a paper consisting of ten pages the ways in which the text reflects contemporary attitudes regarding dying and death are examin...

Blues People Negro Music in White America by Leroi Jones

continent, yet, in many ways it has been African-American influences which have stimulated creativity in others, both within the b...

Greek Mythology, Hesiod’s Five Ages of Man, and the Story of Zeus and Other Olympic Deities

period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...

Andrew Dubus/Dancing After Hours

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

Sammy Grows Up in the “A&P”

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

Bluest Eye, Sonny Blues and Cathedra

is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...

Literary Analysis: “Dubliners” by James Joyce

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

Willa Cather's Paul's Case (Analysis)

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

Herman Melville’s Piazza Tales

(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

The Heart in The Story of an Hour

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

Writing a Fantasy Story

parents simply abandoned the children. There are many directions such a story could take. In this case one could claim that the pa...

Comparing the Real Story of Pocahontas to the Disney Cartoon Interpretation

was not until 1624 and the publication of Smiths The Generall Historie of Virginia...&c., that Smith told the story that "as man...

Living by Stories: Modern and Aboriginal

difficult time creating a cohesive worldview. Because of this the aboriginal people often had to struggle with ways in which to un...

Franklin’s Inner Conflict and Resolution in Judy Troy’s Short Story, “Ten Miles West of Venus”

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

“The Garden of Forking Paths”

of the unsolvable interlinked labyrinth through the pursuits of Yu Tsun, the great grandchild of the philosopher Tsui Pen who quit...

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Reservation Blues

(Johnson). The narrator relates with obvious pride he learned the "names of the notes in both clefs," as a young child and could ...

The Death of Samuel

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

Maximus In Catland: Philosophical Messages For Parents And Children Alike

the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...

The Story of the Stone by Cao Xuegin, The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Hsun, Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun and Raise the Red Lantern

socialism (Stone 14). The story is one that shows the societal structure and the flaws of the bourgeoisie and the reasons behind...

A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Hemingway

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

Literary Themes

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

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...

Three American Short Stories

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

Italo Calvino/"The Adventure of a Reader"

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...