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assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

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

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...

This 6 page paper is an analysis of the short story by Camus called The Guest. This paper gives a summary of the story as well as ...

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

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

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

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...