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traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...

This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...

This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

Secure in the knowledge that his origins are unknown, Max joins a white supremacist group and allies himself with their bigotry. S...

a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...