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Grotesque in the Works of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner

In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

'Loverboys' by Ana Castillo

our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...

Two Views of Murder

because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...

Italo Calvino/"The Adventure of a Reader"

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...

A Short Story

may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

Elements of Short Stories

Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...

Bessie Head and Mahasweta Devi's Patriarchy Perspectives

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

Chitra Divakaruni's 'Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter'

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...

'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...

Raymond Carver and Relationships

that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...

'Emilie Plead Choose One Egg' by Paule Barton

In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

Interviews with 3 Burglars

have to share the proceeds with anyone. The first man generally enters through a garage door. The second man, however, indicated ...

This is a paper that discusses Uncle Tom’s

because they are swimming on a white persons property they find trouble, and violence. Big Boy and Bobo backed away, their eyes fa...

Racism and Criminality in Native Son

many of the same factors that Wright presented in the life of Bigger. Baldwin writes, for example, that he himself is a product o...

1930s' Issues and the Works of Clifford Odets and Richard Wright

and asks his mother why that happened. His mother says "The white man did not whip the black boy...He beat the black boy" (Wright ...

Literature and Dual African American Worlds

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

Short Fiction's Depiction of Families

judgements about his surroundings came as naturally as breathing, yet he was raised with a cultural model that stressed that child...

Richard Wright and Alice Munro's Perspectives on Women

contrasted against the life of her sister, Nora, who is not as down-to-earth as Clara and considered the prettier of the two. Nor...

Blueprint for Negro Writers and the Works of Richard Wright

This paper examines Blueprint for Negro Writers in an overview of the ideologies expressed in the works of Richard Wright as illus...

Three Authors on Nonconformity

In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

Responsibility in Motley and Wright

Knock on Any Door by Willard Motley and Native Son by Richard Wright present different perspectives on sociology and race relation...

Violence and How It Functions in the Writings of Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...

Changing Twentieth Century Aesthetic Norms Regarding Black Literature

In six pages the ways in which black literature's aesthetic norms have changed and evolved are discussed in a consideration of the...

Poetry and Literary Effectiveness on the Topic of Lynching

water, boiling my limbs panting, begging I clutched childlike, clutched to the hot sides of death (Wright, 2003)....

Richard Wright and Lorraine Hansberry's Styles of Writing

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts the styles of writing featured in Native Son, a novel by Richard Wright, and A Rais...

Exploitive Criticisms of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

as it is with pure identity based on the unique woman that Janie is. Janies life is one that is likely very realistic as many Af...

Job Assessments Contrasted

of the ideal will still consciously reject them urging that Naked Power is worthy of such worship. Such is the Attitude inculcate...