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Kate Chopin/The Storm

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

Three American Short Stories

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

Greek Mythology, Hesiod’s Five Ages of Man, and the Story of Zeus and Other Olympic Deities

period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...

Andrew Dubus/Dancing After Hours

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

The Story of the Stone by Cao Xuegin, The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Hsun, Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun and Raise the Red Lantern

socialism (Stone 14). The story is one that shows the societal structure and the flaws of the bourgeoisie and the reasons behind...

Living by Stories: Modern and Aboriginal

difficult time creating a cohesive worldview. Because of this the aboriginal people often had to struggle with ways in which to un...

Franklin’s Inner Conflict and Resolution in Judy Troy’s Short Story, “Ten Miles West of Venus”

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

“The Garden of Forking Paths”

of the unsolvable interlinked labyrinth through the pursuits of Yu Tsun, the great grandchild of the philosopher Tsui Pen who quit...

Writing a Fantasy Story

parents simply abandoned the children. There are many directions such a story could take. In this case one could claim that the pa...

Maximus In Catland: Philosophical Messages For Parents And Children Alike

the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...

The Death of Samuel

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

Comparing the Real Story of Pocahontas to the Disney Cartoon Interpretation

was not until 1624 and the publication of Smiths The Generall Historie of Virginia...&c., that Smith told the story that "as man...

Sammy Grows Up in the “A&P”

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput

is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...

Literary Analysis: “Dubliners” by James Joyce

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

Willa Cather's Paul's Case (Analysis)

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

Herman Melville’s Piazza Tales

(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

O. Henry & Hemingway, Plus A Little on Faulkner

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

The Heart in The Story of an Hour

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

Louise Erdrich: “The Red Convertible”

the stop by a river and it seems everything is fine, but Henry is too far gone to be helped. He jumps into the river and drowns; L...

A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Hemingway

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

Literary Themes

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

Chopin’s Tragic “Hour”

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

No Love Lost

at its best. This paper argues that the protagonist of the story, Louise Mallard, does not love her husband. Discussion The stor...

Five Short Stories - an Analysis

decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...

Marketing to the Poor

were lacking in material things. This was viewed specifically as an economic division where certain people had failed to reach a b...

Meaning and Literature

The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...

Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" - A Symbolic Analysis

this, Samsas preeminent concern is how he will explain this difficult matter to his boss, if he is in fact even able to get to wor...

The Holocaust and Creative Writing

of ways, including its formal structure. Though the text is routinely considered to be historical in nature, it is not exactly an ...