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protagonist finds his fathers rejection of him to be too much to bear and continue living. Kafka begins "The Judgment" by pictu...

End of Something," "Cat in the Rain," and "The Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II)." First well describe the stories, than anal...

to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...

workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...

educated, for most people are in the future, and they just live a life that is filled with criminal activity. It is the norm and t...

The obvious conclusion that many students come to when considering this encounter was that Connie in effect encouraged Arnolds pur...

to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...

at the same time he is not successful, such as the relationship with his grandfather and a wife. In terms of three specific events...

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

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...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

and supportive, as well as including the usual element of sexual attraction. The problem that Allie and Noah faced early on was ...