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Grotesque in the Works of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner

In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

Character Analysis of Siblings in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In five pages this research paper presents a character analysis of the brothers featured in this short story by James Baldwin. Fi...

'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations by Brian Ward

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

Music and Brotherly Love in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...

An Analysis of James Alan McPherson's The Story of a Scar

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

West Side Story, Manhattan Transfer, and Uses of Dialect

In five pages the ways in which ethnic dialects are used in the stories of West Side Story and Manhattan Transfer are considered. ...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

Making a Difference Through Storytelling

who finds themself trapped with a, almost willingly, woman going insane. Twains "Huckleberry Finn" takes the reader with him along...

Comparative View of Salem's Witch Trials

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of the Salem witch trials presented in Francis Hill's A Delusion of Sata...

Kate Chopin and Marriage Aspects

In ten pages Chopin's stories 'Desiree's Baby,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and 'A Respectable Woman' are examined in terms of their t...

Black in Blue by Nicholas Alex

of the people and in the political structure of the Criminal Justice system. Nicholas Alex found that, in 1969, police officers...

Comparing Two Works by Joseph Conrad

then. He gets a very powerful and intriguing adventure when he attempts to pull a ladder into the ship, only to discover a man att...

William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, and the Presence of Oracles

matters into his own hands, a reality perhaps perceived by the oracle. He believes the predictions of the witches, and thinks that...

A Comparison of the Films Harold and Maude and Blue Velvet

in money, or in finding Harold a nice young woman. Harold, however, is a young man fascinated with death. This is, of course, p...

A Review of Coyote Blue

see him again he is Sam Hunter and he lives in Los Angeles, melding in with the population and the society. "Financially and socia...

'The Curse' by Andre Dubus

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...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

Canadian Literature and Violence

The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...

Olsen & Tyler On Being a Parent

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

Dona Sebastiana

which "comprises a stunning class-conscious critique of Christian hypocrisy and the Churchs complicity with the rich" (Padilla 150...

Chinua Achebe/Dead Men's Path

"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...

Faulkner's Rose for Emily/Time Imagery

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman/The Yellow Wallpaper

A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...

Wife of Bath’s Tale and Wedding of Sir Gawain

together and makes possible the fraternal and hierarchic bonds of chivalric solidarity" (Hahn). This contrasts sharply with the fo...

Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

Poe and The Masque of the Red Death

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

A Synthesis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories' The Birth-Mark', 'Lady Eleanore's Mantle,' 'The Minister's Black Veil,' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...

The Short Story 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...