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being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

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

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...

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

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

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

was much different.) There are other aspects to the mum that remind us of Kin. First, a flower of any kind is beautiful, but pra...

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

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...

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

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...

takes on the persona of Samantha, and Samantha eagerly takes on the persona of Amanda because they seem to be the same. There ar...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

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 ...

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

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

to have a baby. They tried as often as Mrs. Elliot could stand it. They tried in Boston after they were married and they tried c...

third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...

he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...

through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...

great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...