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The New South and the Black American Communities

groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...

Animal References in John Updike's 'A and P' and Colette's 'The Hand'

is described as apelike and lowered its claws, and became a pliant beast (Colette, 197)" (Johnny Boy). This critic indicates that ...

Arnold Friend in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

Marxist View of the Misfit Character in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...

'The World War I Los Angeles Airplane' by Richard Brautigan

at the same time he is not successful, such as the relationship with his grandfather and a wife. In terms of three specific events...

Rhinton Mistry's Tales from Firozsha Baag

himself during this period (Ross, 1999). He began writing soon after his arrival in Canada, and won the "Canadian Fiction Magazin...

An Explication of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...

Christian and Islam Views on Creation

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...

Love and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...

'Why I Live at the P.O.' by Eudora Welty

workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...

'A Memory' by Eudora Welty

Indeed, growing up in happy, solid family atmosphere provided the author with significant insight to the concepts about which she ...

'No Place for You, My Love' by Eudora Welty

a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed statement as compared with the storys absolute objective, what is left...

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...

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...

'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe, 'Shooting the Elephant' by George Orwell and the Human Heart

to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

'War is Kind' and 'A Mystery of Heroism' by Stephen Crane

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

Donald Barthelme's 'The Balloon' and Irony

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

Worth Reading 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin

a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...

Can Utilitarianism Be Considered a Sound Ethical Theory?

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

2 Trade Textbooks on Investment and Mathematics Reviewed

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...

John Keats and Ernest Hemingway

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

'Araby' by James Joyce and Growing Up

a part of the childhood experience. But then, a girl referred to only as Mangans sister (obviously the sister of one of his frien...

How the Angel Was Perceived by the Townspeople in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Greek Society Reflected in Literary Characterizations

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers

symbolizes heavy choices, heavy responsibility, and perhaps many different things to many different people. It also helps us see t...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Objects

to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...