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a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...

as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...

applied to literature in terms of presenting visual imagery in words that does not need to make sense and involves the subconsciou...

clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...

is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...

which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...

a chicken farm. Of his life there and the annoying chickens he writes:" It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny...

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

country seems to be in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors, and on the fact that this eternal war has become the norm. Th...

trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...

takes on the persona of Samantha, and Samantha eagerly takes on the persona of Amanda because they seem to be the same. There ar...

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...

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

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

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

is actually an "angel of light," as he serves as the "unwilling instrument of grace," by stealing Joy/Hulgas leg and leaving her s...

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

In comparison to the many overt forms of change these villagers have been forced to experience over time as a result of colonialis...

that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...

apply and be accepted into the graduate creative writing program at Boston University; eventually getting her Masters in English, ...

can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...