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aware that her and her mothers poverty had placed them at the bottom rung of Kentuckys socioeconomic ladder, with the chances of u...

story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...

chill in the air (London 143). But his canine companion knew better. He was all-too-familiar with this icy terrain, and his inst...

lessons in humanity. Nazis aint got no humanity. Theyre the foot soldiers of a Jew hatin, mass murderin maniac, and they need to ...

name is ironic in that Beneatha is beneath no one in her family. Her intellect and her passion for knowledge are unsurpassed. Sh...

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

and social expectations define how individuals act, and these elements are significant to determining the social view in the story...

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

the house, knowing it will frighten his wife. In fact, in the first scene of the story, Sykes sneaks up on Delia and tosses his b...

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

farm listens to him and believes him and looks up to him. "Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Whi...

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

time period has no choices, that she cannot freely move around and do many things before marriage. Society restricts what she can ...

capitalists, wining and dining them all through Paris" (Nugent). In this we see the psychology of the seriousness of the Russia...

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

his own resulting suicide because he believes his life is not worth living (which, in many ways, parallels Clarissas own ambivalen...

opined that, in this work, the tragic and the supernatural are synonymous: "The tragedy of Macbeth thus lies in the attempt of a m...

Tom is central to defining the family stratification in the play, and also shapes a distinct view of the way familial associations...

which we, the reader or viewer, can relate to. We see them as noble individuals who demonstrate weakness, yet still battle against...

of reference. The priest represents the possibility of attaining the ideal in life and in love, especially as it applies to the r...

Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) donqu2.html). He was beaten, and he returned home where he approaches Sancho and pleads with him...

he recalls when his mother stole a piece of ham just so she could feel it to her family. In another example, he recalls when his ...

Although "The Secret Sharer" was not written until 1909, some thirteen years after his last sea voyage, it is considered one of Co...

they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...

fathers death, she sets to the task of making a funeral shroud. Every day she spends hours working on it, then when night comes, s...

for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretched to give back to life the love it gives her" (OBrien Bi...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...

where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...

that they are constantly losing, for many losers keep plugging away. And, if they constantly plug away, with good intentions and p...