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Communication Failure in 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...

Extended Version of Acceptance But Not Soul Mates After Five Years

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...

'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...

Analysis of 'Why I Live at the P.O.' by Eudora Welty

In five pages this research paper analyzes Welty's popular short story with the emphasis upon family eccentricities and the post m...

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 ...

'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway and the Theme of Dysfunction

In five pages Hemingway's short story is discussed in terms of how it reflects dysfunction of family relationships. Seven sources...

'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence, 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker and Families

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

Commonality of Family Dysfunction in 'Go Tell It On the Mountain' by James Baldwin

In 5 pages the common themes of family dysfunction and religion's 'being saved' are examined within the context of this story by J...

Fictitious Story on Viking Erik Olafson

In seven pages a young boy's journey that chronicles the everyday life of a Viking family is featured in this fictitious story. F...

'Why I Live at the P.O.' by Eudora Welty

workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...

Mordecai: An Early American Family (Book Report)

North. The business this family chose to engage in, at least eventually, was education. They started a school. The school would be...

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...

Family Culture and the Importance of 'Nonna's Apron'

primarily white, with some red and green piping and a large image of an eagle in the middle. The apron has two large ties that go...

Family Systems Theory

equilibrium" (Christian, 2006). Each of these features lies within their own continuum. For instance, while all families establish...

Family Health Nursing

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

The Change In Family Structure

applies a qualitative approach in order to reach into the greater human element involved in this particular subject matter. Indee...

Researching Family History

a land in which the wealthy were very wealthy, the poor were exceedingly so. Michael seemed to believe he was in training t...

Therapy can save Marriages

Families face a myriad of concerns and issues. Parents may disagree about parenting styles, there may be behavioral or academic pr...

Faulkner's Rose for Emily/Time Imagery

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

3 Expert Tales of Death

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

Small Fires: Developed Perceptions with Readings

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

Sinclair Ross/2 Short Stories

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

An Analysis of Twain's, The Story of the Bad Little Boy

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

Section Five of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Symbolism

In five pages this story's 5th section is analyzed in terms of the wallpaper symbolism, what it projects, and how it relates to th...

Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and Literary Style

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

John Updike/The Rumor

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...