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in order to understand the emergence and potency of nationalism we must rely on social communication. That reliance is particular...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...

still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...

The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

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

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

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