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A Comparison of 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan and 'First Confessions' by Frank O'Connor

structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...

Dramatic Irony in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

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

'Good' and 'Bad' Tradition in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

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

Chivalry, Character, Hunting, and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

monstrous Green Knight after having already shown that he is unmarred when his own head is cut off (Norton 218). There is a great ...

Abortion and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...

Canadian Storyteller Thomas King

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...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

Amy Tan's Short Story 'Two Kinds'

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...

Forest Motif in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

Dark But Not Always Gothic Writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

Meaning, Modernism, and Postmodernism in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

Thematic Elements of 'The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Analyzed

a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...

Analysis of 'Solder's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

Violence, Grace, and Redemption in 'Greenleaf' by Flannery O'Connor

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

Odysseus Compared with Genesis' Jacob

son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...

Chinese Culture and Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord

In five pages story is discussed in terms of the ways in which the protagonist's perceptions and actions reflect the author's own ...

'Emilie Plead Choose One Egg' by Paule Barton

In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...

Agamemnon and 'Oresteia' by Aeschylus

This paper consists of five pages and considers how Cassandra's rendition of events represents a play within a play as her word im...

The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

into my own playtime. Whenever I was about to say the contracted word "cant," the little engine would come to mind and Id hear my ...

An Analysis of Two Short Stories from A Bird in the House

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

Feminine Relationships in 'The Girl' by Le Sueur

In four pages this essay discusses the feminist movement in terms of the story's portrayal of women's relations and mother and dau...

An Analysis of Oroonoko by Aphra Behn

The story's romantic aspects and how the effects of slavery are minimized by this emphasis are discussed in a paper that consists ...

'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence II

In five pages the story's juxtapositioning of the subconscious and conscious of main characters Jack Fergusson and Mabel Pervin is...

Ordinary in 'A and P' by John Updike

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

'Shiloh' by Bobbie Ann Mason

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

The Medic in World War II, An Interview

young lady? (I nod, encouragingly, I hope.) Well, say the fella had an arm or a leg that was , well, missing. Id slap on a tourniq...

An Analysis of Campbell's Envy

This story is discussed in depth and the protagonist is examined. This story contemplates Bebe, the character who threatens her te...

Color and Setting in To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing

In two pages the author's employment of color and setting in order to emphasize the story's conflicts and represent alienation is ...

A Review of Everyday Use

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

Selected Short Stories and Their Representation of Gender Conflict

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...