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The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...

social factor to which he is excluded, Abners anger is compounded by the fact that the Negro servant does not acknowledge his whit...

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...

and supportive, as well as including the usual element of sexual attraction. The problem that Allie and Noah faced early on was ...

upon is the storytellers role in conveying specific point by the end of the tale. This "moral of the story" is a pertinent focal ...

and having food passed to her through a slot" (Moffett 146). When Dixon mentions his plan, she resists the impulse to yell and tel...

inflicts diseases on the Pharaoh and his household How God is manifested: * God comes to Abimelech in a dream * God condemns Abi...

opens just after her birth. Like all babies, she is crying. Lucinda, a rather stupid fairy, is intent on giving Ella a "gift" and ...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

When was the last time I had spoken his name? Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had...

been a scruffy collection of shabby hirelings and rich macho playboys who were footing the bill" (Hoaglund). Schaller is someone q...

"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...

"develop a healthy sense of omnipotence which will naturally be frustrated as the child matures" (D. W. Winnicott). Because Pu Yi...

are learning that every living being sometime, somehow, some way ultimately dies. Fairy tales have long utilized this concept as ...

day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

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...

United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

the magnificent colors that surrounded me in his studio. This room was filled with colorful quilts and shelves filled with fabrics...

only author struggling with this issue; the subject is frequently explored today by people of many ethnic backgrounds. For instanc...

many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...

are not so lucky; they remain in Afghanistan under Soviet rule and then later are subjected to the tyranny of the Taliban regime d...

then again in later episodes: specifically, when Cinderella comes home from the balls (there are two in most stories; Disney is th...

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...

of her character. Just after she marries Charles, Flaubert tells us that before they had married she thought she was in love, but ...

the Russian culture has long remained something of a mystery as well. Even despite the seemingly mysterious nature of Russian l...

When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...