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camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...

end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...

bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

a garden. Without end or limit, without borders and fences, in noises and rustling, golden in the sun, pale green in the shade, a...

my birthday and my parents are throwing a party for me. Its no surprise, but thats just as well. I cant ever remember having a p...

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

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...

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

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

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...

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...

is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...

it has been going on for so long that nobody remembers why or how it started (Jackson). We also know that this village is not the ...

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...

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

was much different.) There are other aspects to the mum that remind us of Kin. First, a flower of any kind is beautiful, but pra...

and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

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

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

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...