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The Necessity of Gesture

out of the ordinary that they are shocking (Updike). (And yes, there really is an A&P-the abbreviation is short for the Great Atla...

The Symbolic Function of Marriage in Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"

literary works of early America, is awash with allegory and symbolic meaning. Ostensibly, the story tells the tale of a somewhat l...

Willa Cather and Amy Tan and Point of View

view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...

Nawabdin Electrician

whom he ultimately has no sympathy for, indicating very strongly that the character of Nawab knows that people make their own choi...

Angela Carter's 'The Werewolf' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Hop Frog'

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

Elie Wiesel's Night and Albert Camus' The Plague

In seven pages these stories are compared in terms of their similar messages regarding the Second World War's harsh realities. Th...

Novel Line in If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

In two pages this paper examines one line from the novel in an analysis of its significants to the characterizations and the story...

'Oriental Tale' Motif and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

In two pages this paper examines the motif of the 'Oriental Tale' in terms of its significance to the relationship between the sto...

'Write On!' Analysis

Unlike "new mathematical algorithms or chemistry theorems" (Bauer, 1999; p. 112), any reader of any age can produce some kind of s...

Guest of the Nation by Frank O'Connor and Character Depth

and Hawkins, two Englishmen. The setting is OConnors homeland of Ireland. The time frame is early twentieth century, during the ...

Two Tolstoy Works Compared

Jealousy and marriage and how they drive the plot line and story in this paper, which compares Leo Tolstoys' Family Happiness and ...

'Mother Courage and Her Children' by Bertolt Brecht and 'Bread and Wine' by Ignazio Silone

In seven pages these two stories are examined regarding the meaning of each and the themes of Marxism and oppression. There are n...

Feminist Perspectives on Guy de Maupassant's Short Story 'The Necklace'

In six pages this paper presents a feminist critical analysis of this famous 19th century short story. Two sources are cited in t...

'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence from a Sociological Perspective

In this paper containing five pages this short story is evaluated in terms of its sociological aspects. There are two additional ...

Old and New Hearts of Darkness

The Francis Ford Coppola motion picture Apocalypse Now served as a remake of Robert Conrad's Heart of Darkness. This paper compare...

Poor Nations' Hosuing Improvement Construction Report and Analysis

In five pages a Third World nation two story home is discussed in terms of its attributes and how it can encourage housing standar...

'Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'Snow Queen' by Hans Christian Andersen

The psychological symbolism that exists in each story is examined in seven pages to explain why there are psychologically unsatisf...

Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Degrees of Separation

An eight page paper looking at the issue of separation in Toni Morrison's modern classic. The paper points out that there are real...

Cripple Creek Days by Lee

In two pages this paper compares Buffalo Bill's portrayal of the development of the West with the Cripple Creak, Colorado's mining...

Elder Fairytale

survived and were content with that. The little girl, however, was not happy with such a life. She wanted more. But, she never c...

Clint Eastwood;'s 1992 Film Unforgiven

what is being portrayed is hero against the world and right against wrong. Certainly, those factors are present in "Unforgiven." H...

Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Their Narrators' Unreliability

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

'The Business Man' by Edgar Allan Poe

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

Writing Style of Raymond Carver

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

Fashion and Status in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...

Student Submitted Case Study on Wilmont Chemical Corporation's Accounting Strategy

the costs are accounted for the method will not provide what can be seen as an accurate or fair costing per item or centre, and as...

American Dream and Ernest Hemingway's Story 'A Clean Well Lighted Place' and John Ford's Film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...

Thermal Stress Reaction Case Study Analysis

with a back-pack blower." This 30 year old man had throughout the day complained to his partner that he was not feeling well; at ...

'That Evening Sun' by William Faulkner

being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...

Tim O'Brien's 'How to Tell a True War Story,' Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and the Importance of Setting

a sense of apprehension. As he looks back to see her watching him as he rounds the corner by the meeting house he vows that thing...