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down, squishing them to form a fish face. All the children were participating except for Jack, who was staring at the ceiling, mo...

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

be there. They, as individuals, come second when they have a husband and a family. Even in todays society where a woman can be suc...

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...

there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...

for the homeless boy. This novel has garnered severe criticism in recent decades because Twain makes use of nineteenth century la...

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...

In many ways, as the story progresses, the reader essentially forgets her heart condition. But, if one keeps this in mind one can ...

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

feel "normal" she simply goes about her day. There is an air of loneliness, despair and isolation, which would make any individual...

This 6 page paper discusses the literary works and reputation of Kate Chopin, with emphasis on “The Awakening.” Bibliography lists...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

or that this story is only a thinly veiled platform for womens suffrage. This story is not just about a womens coming of age or co...

fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...