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town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

the narrators apartment and intrude upon her thought processes. She writes that they are "fingered for such a long time, they beco...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

to help us answer that question of his growth. The book is a perennial best seller, and most people can name the episodes that co...

1994, p. 15). That really is his biggest problem: he is seeking answers to the problem of being black in America, but hes lookin...

There are actually three types of third person narration: third person objective; third person omniscient; and third person limite...

seeing what has been remembered and what he, or others around him have forgotten, either by choice or as a result of personality d...

Company (Einwechter, 1999). This agreement stated the purpose for traveling to the New World, which was basically an affirmation t...

the literal meaning of utterances that are deemed ironic does affect the perception of the intended meaning. That said, other rese...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

a more accepting attitude of debt also indicates that this is resulting in the use of credit cards and higher than ever before cre...

have been no time called too early" (Wilson 9). This statement indicates the major theme of the play, which is Troys rage at the i...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

with his wifes hopes. In the case of the Underground Man one can see his hopes in the prostitute in the following: "I hated her ...

after all, they are completely covered, even if they are pushing the limits The second ironical situation is Sammys resignation. ...

personage than William Makepeace Thackeray, who loved Gulliver but who thought that Proposals moral was "horrible, shameful, unman...

trip and recording what took place. There is nothing heroic about him and actually there seems to be nothing truly strong about hi...

then Ill tell her plain She sings as sweetly as the nightingale: Say that she frown: Ill say she looks as clear As morning roses ...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...

a nineteenth century war that the U.S. initiated with Mexico. Teacher Bill Bigelow describes how a traditional history textbook c...

concerned that his mother died. Likewise the narrator in Dostoevskys story is unlikable from the beginning, establishing his wor...

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

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story" (Wharton). Its his c...

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

When the psychologists lofty expectations come crashing down around him, he tries to wash his anxieties away in a symbolic gesture...