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Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...

In five pages this research paper presents a character analysis of the brothers featured in this short story by James Baldwin. Fi...

In five pages this short story by Raymond Carver is examined in an analysis of the blind character Robert and what he symbolizes. ...

all, it appears that the author addresses social stratification by putting the protagonist in this particular setting. What the p...

of such an objective that one becomes labeled as selfish and intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation o...

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...

was I really going to be able to make it here for six months? I felt bad thinking this way - this was my parents home once, after ...

This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...

view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...

this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...