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In five pages this paper examines the allegorical representation of death and sin in Paradise Lost, Book Two. There are no other ...

In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...

for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...

This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...

a sense of apprehension. As he looks back to see her watching him as he rounds the corner by the meeting house he vows that thing...

is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

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...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

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

mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...

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...

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

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

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

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

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

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

contemporary society. "People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at t...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...