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suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...

death(The Death/synopsis). He simply lived his life like most people do: work, family, community. There was nothing else. Or was t...

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

it looks like a Holstein calf, and she is waggin her finger at me and sayin, "Child, you got to grab hold of the things you want i...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...

In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...

In six pages these two short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of girls' roles in each tale. There are no other sources...

is assumed that the narrator is offering a truthful representation, but the readers are expected to often "read between the lines"...

In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...

Iin a paper consisting of six pages this essay discusses the short story in terms of how it reflects the author's own life. There...

In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...

In seven pages Poe's works are analyzed within the context of his short stories 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House o...

extensively from both the perspective of the unsighted as one who fails to see the beauty of the world around him to the sightless...

The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...