YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Review of Gabriels Story
Essays 571 - 600
but they carried him 1,000 feet and not the remaining 500 feet. The Japanese gave the man food and water and reported he was "list...
revolved around her. She was, in many ways, experimenting with her sexuality as well, a very significant part in coming of age. Sh...
I smiled and nodded, but I wasnt sure if he was offering me his seat or just making a general observation. "Come on," he said. "...
to be reducing altitude; since they were on combat patrol they assumed it was an attack (Schank 305). He finished by saying he tho...
alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
socialism (Stone 14). The story is one that shows the societal structure and the flaws of the bourgeoisie and the reasons behind...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
he holds the cloth and in his right, the knife; there is blood on the cloth, the red making a contrast to the snowy white. The mes...
four Aucas showed up at the camp to visit them. The missionaries gave each of the visitors more gifts to demonstrate their intenti...
Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...
he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...
the stop by a river and it seems everything is fine, but Henry is too far gone to be helped. He jumps into the river and drowns; L...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...