YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Truth About Stories by Thomas King
Essays 3421 - 3450
the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...
suspects of being promiscuous. She is a flirt and immediately begins flirting with the bunk hands. Curley, a highly volatile man, ...
think that schizophrenics are actually people who have split personalities, but this is not a correct description of the disease a...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
real name of "Leos Carax" is actually Alexandre Dupont and that "Leos Carax" is an anagram of the lead characters name, Alex Oscar...
continues to build. The task of finding the real answer falls to the captain of the fist ship. What emerges then is a great myst...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
in men. Her daughter had died in childhood and with her one son she had no articulate relations. On the night when she died she wa...
argue he is standing up to injustice in the world as it involves the young girls. As one author states, "At first glance, Sammy, t...
Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...
The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
joyce.html). His mother, Mary Jane Murray, was "ten years younger than Stanislaus, was an accomplished pianist whose life was domi...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
as Emily has illustrated, there exist a vast array of relationships that do not involve romantic love at all, but rather incorpora...
the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
In five pages the importance of setting to these stories is discussed in this comparative analysis. Two sources are cited in the ...
two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...
and comparing characters will find issues of subjugation and class privilege clearly define every aspect of the lives of all the c...
North. The business this family chose to engage in, at least eventually, was education. They started a school. The school would be...
how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...
have suddenly grown weak" which symbolizes also the weakness in the man as well through the death of his wife and the memory of hi...
not necessarily better than the other. Death was perceived as a place, a further step in life that would offer more security and s...