YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Truth About Stories by Thomas King
Essays 271 - 300
her mother does not always know the time of day. "He just left five minutes ago"; "That was this morning, Mother. Its night now" ...
This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...
From his wife, by the means of her recently discovered manuscript, we find that "Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man. ...
In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...
A 5 analysis of the short story by Guy de Maupassant. 7 sources,...
his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...
sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...
not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...
by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...
youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...
We are expanding it (51:47)," is often contended by many scholars in light of the fact that it was not until fairly recently that ...
Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...
as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...
it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...
amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...
about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...
ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...