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

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

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the story and characters featured in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. There are no o...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

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...

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

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

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

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...

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

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

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

by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...

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

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

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

to Southern society but also how the strength of love could unite individuals to meet formidable challenges. His perhaps na?ve an...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

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...

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

their native primitive cultures and European colonial modernization. Back in the 1940s, few Nigerians were accorded the opportuni...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

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 ...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

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