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Essays 391 - 420
whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...
What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...
and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...
one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
setting up the ending in this way through foreshadowing, it would seem to "come out of nowhere", and would be a jarring fit with t...
and symbolic value. The novel tells the story of a British military officer, Charles Ryder, who in the course of his military duty...
utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...
instructions from a police inspector, who states, "Give the bozo some electric shocks and hell swear he killed his aunt, if necess...
be buried in her familys plot (Lilburn). Its summer, its hot, the journey takes nine days - that in itself is macabre enough, but...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...
them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe its better then, maybe its fine...
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...
they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...
limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...
of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...
cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...
overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...
her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...
death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...