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Essays 361 - 390
the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...
the wealth that lingers in the background. Yet, this rags to riches story includes murder and mayhem and the fact that Sutpen earn...
that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...
his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...
that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...
when the U.S. hostages were being held in Iran, and that year only the top ornament was lit (American Christmas Traditions, Facts ...
taken with a bomb explosion on Christmas night in 1951 (Green, 1999). Ironically, this was also the night of their twenty-fifth w...
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...
was the case, but not in the manner which many would believe. I dont think there is any reason to believe that Emily was raging m...
the student rewrites this research for inclusion in his or her own paper, the student can , of course, reorganize the material in ...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...
defined point of view, which is often that of the author. By giving "specific and sensory details," the author gets the reader inv...
responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...
such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...
come through, which sends him over the edge, kidnapping his boss; however, the boss comes through with the bonus, all conflicts ar...
simply slaves. They were not simply second rate human beings but have constantly played a very vital role in the history of the na...
Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...
"cluttered attic, full of old resentments and angers, gripes and stories" on page 59). In this regard, the steps involved mean def...
the novel. He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...
little old ladies--was to make them ourselves. Mom obtained found a recipe, recruited me as her assistant and one Saturday befor...
fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...
hills is not the same as being on 100 acres of relatively flat ground. Hills ring what we call home, creeks cut through at will a...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
was irreparable. In I, Tituba, the Black Witch of Salem, the protagonist is the misunderstood Tituba, a real-life woman who had b...
he would have no one to do this task for him. And, Iago could not have well done all the spying himself for that would have looked...
(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...
tale that he is a eunuch, otherwise impotent. With the aid of his friend, Doctor Quack, he manages to land himself in the lap and ...
is considered to be especially significant in regards to the documentation of American history and despite having been written in ...
thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....