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up being a house that was "crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in" (4). It is smal...

we are talking of a coming of age story it is appropriate that this character serves as a foil for the young lady in question. The...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...

tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...

who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

modern-day utopias that seemed to have the best of everything. There were sporting events, community activities, performing arts,...

and finds that his father has not eaten much in the past three months. His father confesses that Dantes had left a debt when he l...

we meet the main characters, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, two boys with similar backgrounds who meet at a baseball game. Dan...

Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...

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

excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...

or knowledge which is essential to him if he is to complete his tasks and become a true hero....

to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...

an affair. The whole family was corrupt and unforgiving, but most importantly their downfall came at their very own hands because...

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

see a subtle hint that Stanley, while something of a macho male, is one who is not ignorant about the ways of people. He sees thei...

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

The honour code which decrees that those who bring shame on the community must remove themselves from it was the ethical system wh...

living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...